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From: George David Morrison <gdm@gedamo.demon.co.uk>
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Increased bit depths:
  A lot of newer, high end cards can take 20 or 24 bit samples
(apparently the Yamaha DSP factory can take 32 bit). It might be worth
supporting these formats.

Synth specific parameters:
  Rather than have a different interface for each type of onboard synth,
wouldn't it be possible to present all synths as a MIDI device and pass
synth specific parameters via sysex messages?

Audio + MIDI patchbay:
  As well as being able to route sources to destinations, the ability to
register new audio and MIDI ports e.g. a software synth could register a
MIDI destination and audio source and appear the same as a hardware
device. This could provide the basis for a plug-in architecture.

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George David Morrison
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