On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 06:40:18 +0000, Mike Rawes wrote: > > For example the distinction between the control output of an envelope > > follower and the gain reduction output of a compressor, the follower > > is inteded to drive eg. a filters cutoff, wheres the gain reduction is > > just inteded to be viewed by the user as a clue as to what is going > > on. > > Ah, I get it now. I'm not sure about it either - a user might want to > connect the gain reduction to another plugin's input for whatever > reason, or conversely, connect a 'data' port to a viewer - e.g. an audio > out to an FFT scope. If the hint doesn't prevent this, I have no > argument against having it. Well, hints would never prevent anything (by definition), but the question is wether its useful enough to clutter the API with. I'd say no. - Steve
