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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:43:07AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:32 AM,   wrote:

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>

> > A reduced sample rate means less bandwidth. It doesn't mean

> > that controls can't be 'sample accurate'. You could even

> > extract 'sub-sample-accurate' discrete events from them,

> > it's just a matter of interpretation.

>

> this just needs a minor re-use of the existing midi port type.

> drobilla always felt that it was questionable that we called this

> stuff "midi" at all, because 95% of the infrastructure is about

> handling sample accurate events, and is utterly agnostic about the

> contents.

We may not be talking of the same thing. This is not about

'generic events' but about reduced-bandwidth continuous

signals, represented as floating point samples. So I'd say

that all it takes is a shorter version of the standard

_audio_ buffer.
The last paragraph in my previous post just hinted at the

possibility that even such low-bandwidth 'analog' signals

can represent discrete events with infinite timing accuracy,

and in a way that would e.g. survive operations such as

mixing or resampling. 
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