I think I misreprisented my self a bit. Several comments have been made about the low level nature of Voltage. That's not how I ment it. I basicly wanted to create a better and more powerful Buzz on linux. People could of course write low level plugins, but the main goal is full scale song creation and/or live proformance.
I think the Sine->Freeverb example was a bad one. It's just the first thing that popped into my head. I do want to have an oscillator and an envelope plugin, but this is only because you can create some beautiful sounds using just a single wave of some shape, so the oscillator would be used as a complete soft synth. My goal was not to provide tools to build synths, although I would not try to stop someone who wanted to do that. On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 16:38, nick wrote: > Im not too sure about each plugin having its own thread though. IMO it > just complicates the programming, would be a performance hit while not > offering many advantages? I think you're right. I've had a realization about this. There is a program called Spiral Synth Modular that does many of the things I want (in fact I may very well drop the Voltage idea and help with SSM). It recursively walks the schematic (as I call it or design as SSM calls it) and creates a ordered list of all the machines so that if you step though the list executing each machine, every machine will have the data it needs. I've just rethought this idea and realized it works for MIDI-like data, too. The problem will come if I try to divide the machine execution into two threads and since I have dual CPU system that would be fairly early, but I think this problem is solvable. Thanks to all for the verious pieces of advise. It has been very useful. -Arthur PS: I've been thinking about this project and I've realized that I probably don't have a real reason to write Voltage. I think I could patch together a system to do what I need using programs that are already out there, but I also really want to write Voltage. It would easier to use, better integrated with its self and it would much closer to what I want. If anyone has any tips or advise for this non-technical, but very difficult dilemma please drop me an email.
