> 1 - For each of the areas GMPI is intended to address, what sample > data types are currently appropriate? (Make no attempt to reduce the > set, just list them.) DAW/music production: - Int16, Int24, Int32, variations of Int24 unpacked in Int32, Float16, Float32 I don't know enough about handheld or cell phone platform to list data types pertinent to those. > > 2 - For each of the areas GMPI is intended to address, what sample > data types are reasonably foreseeable in the next (say) four years? > (Make no attempt to reduce the set, just list them.) DAW/music production: - Float64, PWM (? whatever that 1 bit format is called) > 3 - For each of the areas GMPI is intended to address, are multiple > sample data types within a single graph required? Yes. > 4 - For each of the areas GMPI is intended to address, are multiple > sample data type pins per plug required? No. > 5 - In the (likely) event that the set of areas GMPI is intended to > address has sufficiently different data type requirements as to make > supporting all of them too cumbersome or expensive (in the opinion of > enough developers), is it necessary to do anything in the official > documents to keep any of the areas separated from the other, for > either technical or marketing or other reasons? Yes. > 6 - If the answer to 5 is Yes, then how, exactly, should the official > documents achieve this separation? (E.g., with technical API-level > measures?; with technical option(parameter)-limiting measures?; with > industry-consensus or market mechanisms?; on a per-project basis?; or > through some combination of these?) The spec should at a minimum give some guidance that different platforms and applications drift towards their "natural" data types, eg, float for a DAW. Need to think about this some more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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