[gmpi] Re: undo and controls
- From: "Jeff McClintock" <jeffmcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:01:52 +1200
Well, I don't want to be religious to the point of boring everyone to tears.
I'll accept whatever the group decides.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Kuper" <ronkuper@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 11:56 AM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: undo and controls
> > I just feel people here are attempting to find a reason, any reason, to
> get
> > raw MIDI "in the back door"
>
> Jeff, those of us who want MIDI want to ensure the commercial acceptance
of
> GMPI. MIDI not be your reality, or your concern, but it is mine and my
> companies. I can also assure that the "silent major" synth manufacturers
> won't be very interested in GMPI if we don't give them an easy migration
> path, warts and all.
>
> What is so harmful about providing off the shelf MIDI<>GMPI converter
> plugins? What is so harmful about letting "legacy" "old school" vendors
> write their plugs to take MIDI-in/audio-out?
>
> > -flakey automation
>
> MIDI != automation. VST may allow CC and NRPNs to be used for automation,
> but it also has setParam/getParam semantics. I think the 2 are
orthogonal.
>
> > -no undo/redo
>
> You mean, "limited undo/redo". Today even in major commercial apps not
> every operation is undoable. Let's realistically consider the impact of
> what won't be undoable before concluding that this is a show-stopper.
>
> > -no "total recall"
>
> Again orthogonal to MIDI. Softsynths today can both respond to MIDI and
> load preset blobs. The latter doesn't seem to be limited by the former.
>
>
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