[gmpi] Re: Topic 4: Host Interface

  • From: Frederic Vanmol <frederic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:41:59 +0100

> Well, one thing I have been waiting to see is a possibility to send tempo
> to the host. For example: I want to make a tempo tracker plugin that
> extracts the tempo from an audio stream and have that being used as the
> "master tempo" to which all other things are time-sync'd in a musical sense
> (good for live performances and music that calls for easy tempo
> fluctuations). Maybe this could be an application of this generic approach:
> tempo is just a "control signal" send from the plugin to the host (or just
> the plugins you select if you're doing multi-tempo/poly-rhythmic
> "experimental" music). Koen
>

This is not going to be something a lot of hosts will ever implement, if you 
ask me.


> If anyone knows plugin API's / hosts where I could actually already do that
> now, please let me know?
>

VST can already do this (in theory). You can send timeinfo to the host. But as 
far as I know only one host supports it (Bidule, I think).

Frederic


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