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From: George David Morrison <gdm@gedamo.demon.co.uk>
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Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
...
> > 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.
> 
> This is already done for sequencer clients (thus all MIDI and synth
> devices). I'm not sure if we need digital audio (PCM) user space
> drivers.

I'm thinking more of a common interface for plug-ins than device
drivers.

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