On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:27:39 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > >Again, I think we are speaking of slightly different things. I am talking > >about the time when (for example) the synth at the head of the chain has > >stopped playing notes. A reverb with this as it's input would be told 'your > >input is now silent'. It has a tail, of course. It can be marked silent > >when it's tail is done. Once it is silent, it does not need to be > >processed._ > > this sounds very dangerous to me. > > your description sounds OK. but ... my kawai k5000 is an additive > synth with a moderately interesting FX bank. its still producing sound > for most patches long after all of its "voices" are off. if someone > were to write a plugin modelled on this kind of design, you can't > really know when the top of the chain is silent.
I agree, and more than that its not a usful optimisation (in RT processing), I dont htink the offline case is important enough to warrent this level of complexit and debugging nightmare. If you can point me to a working (not pure research) implemntation I will consider that it might not be total insanity ;) - Steve
