I think we may be close to some closure on this first topic. Here is what seems to be what we can agree on: 1. What kinds of host applications does GMPI target? - Digital audio editors (DAWs), including audio editing in a video context - MIDI/audio sequencers - Mastering systems - Personal music managers, aka "media players" 2. What are the target "form factors" for GMPI host applications? - Software running on conventional desktop OS - Software running on a handheld OS - Embedded in a standalone system - Embedded within portable "music gear" (Note: This is not to imply that GMPI isn't usable in other contexts, such as game consoles or cell phones. It simply means that the specification is primarily targeting the listed applications and platforms.) 3. What are the target "form factors" for GMPI plugins? - On the same platform as the application - On dedicated (DSP) hardware with a software interface to the host 4. Who are our target developers? Anyone who develops software to process or synthesize audio or music. This includes commercial developers, academic computer music researchers, and indepdendent shareware or freeware developers. 5. What kinds of plugins do people use today, and what will they want to use in the future? Audio-to-Audio: - Effects that replace traditional outboard gear in a studio), such as delays, reverbs, chorus, flanger, compressor, eq, pitch shifter, etc. Music-to-Audio processors, such MIDI synthesizers or other "monolithic" synthesizers. - Music->Music processors, such as quantizers, transposers, style generators. - Audio->Music processors, such as pitch detectors. - Networks of the above 4 elements, creating modular synthesizers and processors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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