On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 04:09:52 -0700, Chris Grigg wrote: > Needing a zero-buffer strikes me as a choice that only the plug > author can correctly make, and conversely requiring all GMPI hosts to > always furnish zero-buffers to all non-user-connected inputs seems > like a possible source of system-wide inefficiency. Consider a Er, there only needs to be one buffer of 0.0's per host, its never written to. > utility mixer that scales N active inputs to avoid clipping; in that > case, knowing that an input is semantically unconnected makes a > difference in how the plug processes every other input, and > unconnected inputs are not processed at all. So automatically Yes, thats why theres a function call (or whatever) to detect if a port is unconnected. - Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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