Re: Multitimbral Music Devices - Question and Proposal
Re: Multitimbral Music Devices - Question and Proposal
- Subject: Re: Multitimbral Music Devices - Question and Proposal
- From: Jim Wintermyre <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:24:33 -0700
> Regarding Audio Units hosting Audio Units: There should be no need for
> that. Or how many layers of Audio Units inside Audio Units you want to
> support?
Isn't this basically what AUGraph is for? I'm completely naive about the
implications for plug-in development, but I think wrapping an
AUGraph of arbitrary complexity in a single AudioUnit would be a
really powerful feature.
(If that's a stupid comment please just ignore it :-) )
For hosts that just support the standard "x insert plugs in series
per channel" plus "y parallel send plugs" model (which seems to be
most of the standard DAW apps), it is definitely useful to have a
"chainer" plug like this. For an example, check out the Spark
FXMachine or Bias vbox plugins.
When might you want to use something like this? Say for example you
want to "roll your own" multiband compressor, but you want to build
it up using other plugins as components instead of trying to use a
single MB compressor plugin. You might want to do this because you
have EQ and compressor plugins that by themselves are each better
than the EQ and compressor parts of the MB compressor plug. So, to
do this in a traditional approach you'd make 2 (or more) copies of
the source track. On the first copy, insert your ultra-cool EQ set
to lowpass at the crossover point feeding your ultra-cool compressor
with your low band compression settings. Do similar stuff for the
second track to set up the high band. It sounds so good you decide
you want to do the same thing to 10 other tracks, and you spend half
an hour doing the busywork.
Or, you set up this particular plugin chain once in FXMachine, save
it as a preset, then call it up instantly on any other track whenever
you want.
Jim
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