Well, the *data* can be transferred over the same socket in binary, no conversion required. What I'm talking about is the definition of the GUI in a way that is not platform-dependent.On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:00:41 +0100, Jay Vaughan wrote: > From my standpoint, I'd love to see DSP processes written to a "UAPA" > have a completely text-based interface - stream in XML data, stream > it out, over a socket (what platform doesn't support this?).Converting between ASCII and IEEE float is two expensivefor this to be practical.
Plugins really need to be separated from Interface properly in order for a cross-platform plugin standard to work properly. Every one of the existing plugin 'standards' was created in an attempt to solve this DSP/GUI integration issue, and I think its time the problem went away with a quick move to XML-based schemes.
SynthEd is a step in the right direction in this regard, I reckon...
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