[openbeosmediakit] Re: [Buba] Common Plugin API for BeOS Audio
- From: Simon Gauvin <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dos4gw@xxxxxx, Axxepackes@xxxxxxx, bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,cte06376@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, stippi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,emilseg@xxxxxxxxxx, oxygenum@xxxxxxxxxx,openbeosmediakit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, marcone@xxxxxxxxx, Buba@xxxxxxxxxxxx,buba@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:28:43 -0300
Thanks for posting this Frans, I agree this is important.
What I suggest you do if you want this to be a BeOS standard that you want to
have help with getting it going through beunited.org then you need to write a
standards document and submit it to beuntied.org standards portal.
At the moment there is no portal, since it's in development, but I'm sending
you a copy of a RTF file that is the template for standrds documents. You can
see what the final PDF looks like in our publications section on the
beunited.org web site.
The portal should be up next month and your RealtimeFX is certainly a great
candidate for this...!
Thanks
>This mail is important !
>
>As you all know, support is very important for BeOS/OBOS. It is the most
>powerfull platform for audio.
>
>I have been working to get as much support from 3th parties as possible to
>make OpenBeOS an accepted media choice and with some success.
>
>We have found two companies that allowed me to port their VST plugins to
>BeOS, I got someone to hand me a VSTGUI library that supports VSTGUI up to
>version 2.0,
>one company is now discussing details with us about porting their VSTi
>instrument to BeOS and Ohm Force started to support BeOS again.
>
>With all these efforts, it still does not look like Steinberg will concider
>BeOS an option to support VST3.0. I have made serveral attempts to contact
>them, but no coöperation or what so ever.
>
>Besides this, VST does not meet all the conditions to make it 'the'
>professional audio format and there are even companies that will not support
>VST because of this.
>
>OpenBeOS has so much potential, and as we are developing plug-in API's for
>our SampleStudio and upcoming MultiStudio, we would like to take this
>opportunity to let you all in on this.
>
>This means, we want a plugin API that can be used by any BeOS/OBOS developer
>to add plugin support to their audio application. We want this to be a
>standard for BeOS.
>
>To even make this more exciting, Sonic Timeworks is concidering to port
>their plugins to BeOS if we can meet these goals and add their 2$ to the
>design.
>
>We still will support VST for our products, but as we need a descent native
>plugin API anyway, we could as well create a global usable one. After all,
>the BeOS mediakit already was capable to host instruments, and doesn't need
>VSTi for this.
>
>Of course, this API will be a realtime one, as is the power of BeOS. We will
>call these API's: 'RealtimeFX' - plugins. This standard will do realtime
>effects, audio generation controlled by MIDI or other apps (Instruments) and
>offline processing as needed in SampleStudio and ColdCut.
>
>If we all can come to a common format for SampleStudio, XRS, ColdCut,
>Sounplay, ... I will put in a bonus and make the first set of plugins for
>BeOS, available for free.
>
>I will proceed to create the RealtimeFX plugin library and API's anyway, but
>hope we all can make it a BeOS standard.
>
>Please react to this at frans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx If you are with me on this, I
>will setup a maillist to discus futher details.
>
>Regards,
>Frans van Nispen,
>frans@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>xlr8@xxxxxx;,
>www.xentronix.com
>
>
>
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>Buba - BeUnited Board of Advisors
>BeUnited.org
>http://www.beunited.org
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