> SynthEdit handles this by sending the plugin an event.. "input number 1 is > now silent". > Should I be telling all my competitors this?, or keep it to myself? We dreamed up a similar thing for XAP. How does something that outputs silence (an attenuator set to 0) tell the downstream plugin? Does it send an event to the host or does it have connections to each downstream port? The buffer is a nice place for this, since they are by definition the comms mechanism for downstream plugs. Either way, this is a detail that we shouldn't even be talking about yet, I think. Or maybe..Ron? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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