Re: Idle processing
Re: Idle processing
- Subject: Re: Idle processing
- From: Glenn Olander <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 06:44:58 -0800
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 05:49 AM, Marc Poirier wrote:
the OS knows better than the host about how busy
the system is.
Very well put :-).
Relying on the OS to fill out the set of services required by a plugin
(at least compared to VST) seems to imply that AU is not intended to
become cross platform?
I haven't seen much discussion here about the number of audio units.
The SDK has been out for 6 months now, but you can count the number of
audio units on your hands and feet. Is anyone surprised that so few (or
so many) have appeared? I believe VST, in it's initial version (also
mac only, and was limited to FX) had somewhat more activity.
Unlike VST's original release however, there are a large number of
existing plugins today which merely need to be ported. Why haven't more
AU's appeared? Is it because one must rely on the OS for services like
idle processing, and thus more closely tied to the OS? Is it the
relative complexities of the SDKs? Or is it simply a matter of limited
market demand? Marc and Urs and others are making efforts to promote
AU, but is there something more we, the AU community, should be doing?
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