There are a few reasons for treating them differently. First, the built in synthesizers have unique abilities that aren't available for external synthesizers. Most importantly, we can directly instruct them to load a soundfont. That isn't possible with external synthesizers, which may not even use soundfonts.
Second, the way you configure the communication is very different for them. With an external synthesizer, data gets sent through JACK, and you need to specify the port(s) and channel(s) to send data to. With internal synthesizers, that isn't necessary. The data just gets passed to the synthesizer directly through its own API. MuseScore can define ports and channels however it wants, since they don't need to correspond to any external device. The different classes will still of course share a lot of code. That's what subclassing is for. But they'll also have differences. Also remember that while the currently supported synths are limited to MIDI, we may eventually want to go beyond that. For example, VST3 has its own event system that's more powerful than MIDI events. > I suspect you in danger of over-complicating things which would result in > sluggish, unwieldy code. Trust me, I don't write sluggish, unwieldy code. :) If you want to look at some of my code, here's what I do for my day job: http://openmm.org Peter -- View this message in context: http://dev-list.musescore.org/Playback-abstraction-layer-tp7579762p7579779.html Sent from the MuseScore Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/ gampad/clk?id=1444514301&iu=/ca-pub-7940484522588532 _______________________________________________ Mscore-developer mailing list Mscore-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mscore-developer
