Re: FX type flags?
Re: FX type flags?
- Subject: Re: FX type flags?
- From: Bill Stewart <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:14:25 -0700
on 12/10/02 12:51 PM, B.J. Buchalter wrote:
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on 10/12/02 3:25 PM, Marc Poirier at email@hidden wrote:
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>> Wouldn';t be useful that each Audiounit fx embedded a "type of FX" flag?
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>> That would be useful for control surfaces to distinguish between EQs,
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>> Dynamics, Modulations, Delays, Reverbs...
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>> Or to groups fxs inside hosts...
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> Check the list archives from about a month ago, there was an extended
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> thread about this and the conclusion (I think) was to not have flags or
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> IDs like that. The thread probably had subtype/manufacturer code in the
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Actually, I thought that the conclusion was to add a well-known property to
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the property list for Audio Units to provide this kind of categorization,
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but not to try to enforce this kind of categorization via the effect type
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part of the Component ID so that individual creators (manufacturers) could
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have a clean (and big) namespace for distinguishing between effects.
No - because then you have to open the audio unit - we concluded that using
some additional fields/keys in the component resource is the best solution -
for later
Bill
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By adding it to the property list, the category/effect type could be queried
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without loading the AU.
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Best regards,
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B.J. Buchalter
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