Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Hi - Very quiet list - my first post

[David O. <da...@ol...>]

On Monday 20 January 2003 18.20, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:09:19 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> > XAP is a plugin API, so it doesn't really deal with sampling or
> > any other form of synthesis directly. Linuxsampler would be very
> > useful as a XAP plugin, but that's really more of an API
> > selection matter from Linuxsampler's POV. That is, we still need
> > something to turn into a XAP plugin. :-)
>
> I think that the plans we have for linuxsampler make it a better
> inprocess jack app than a XAP plugin.

Why?

Indeed, XAP doesn't have it's own threads API for worker threads and=20
stuff, but neither does JACK, AFAIK. pthreads is fine. If XAP plugins=20
can tell if they're in a real time host or not, they can even work=20
off-line.

Anyway, XAP includes a serious instrument control API, whereas JACK=20
has no support for structured, variable rate data at all. (Yet?)

JACK + ALSA sequencer probably works. I just think it's backwards to=20
design new software around MIDI, instead of designing around a=20
standardized superset that can still interface with MIDI, and that=20
happens to be part of a plugin API.


Either way, there isn't much of a real argument until XAP is=20
finalized and we have at least one host. :-)


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