I suggest that we specifically add "academic computer music researchers, developers, and composers" to the audience list, because this in fact is where much of the basic stuff has come from (one notable exception: MIDI; I'm sure there are others!). It has pained me and caused me practical difficulties that, for example, computer music people develop on Unix and run command line applications, while most other musicians develop on Mac or Windows and run GUI applications, causing an enormous unnecessary duplication of effort in the basic infrastructure. It took years for the phase vocoder to run on PCs, and it took years for decent overdubbing to appear on Unix. Now that home computers are workstations, there is no technical reason for this divide to continue. After 20 years of experience, it should now be possible to provide a refined implementation of the "abstract parse node as unit generator for synchronous data flow graphs" idea that would suit both audiences just fine. That would mean, for example, that graduate students developing new DSP algorithms could very easily produce gmpi interfaces for their work, just as they sometimes produce Csound opcodes today. For this to work, gmpi MUST provide a refined, abstract, flexible, yet efficient representation of music that does not break experimental composers' imaginations. Of course, herding cats... leading horses to water.... Original Message: ----------------- From: Smartelectronix - Bram de Jong bram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:02:09 +0100 To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gmpi] Re: Topic 1: Audience for and users of plugins From: <mo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > 2. Who are our target developers? > > > > Anyone who develops software to process or synthesize audio or MIDI. > > Meaning that we wish to keep it simple to attrackt hobby developers? One of the success-points of the VST SDK is it's simplicity, imho, hence a large amount of free plugins... greetings, - bram -- http://www.smartelectronix.com http://www.musicdsp.org http://www.ghentsessions.be msn: the_etcher@xxxxxxxxxxx icq: 71307043 mobile: +32 (0) 486 15 77 68 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe