@PaulDavisTheFirst@fosstodon.org
Post #3511803
2026-06-29 19:08 UTC
@samaaron@mastodon.social @mafe@layer8.space @ercanbrack@mastodon.online worth noting that for audio plugin developers, system audio I/O APIs like Pipewire are absolutely, fundamentally and completely irrelevant, since the plugin host takes care of all that stuff.
Sadly not so true for GUI technologies.
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@samaaron@mastodon.social 2026-06-29 19:59
@PaulDavisTheFirst@fosstodon.org @mafe@layer8.space @ercanbrack@mastodon.online Oh absolutely true - I was referring to audio apps rather than VST plugins or equivalent.
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@sobek@social.linux.pizza 2026-06-30 04:23
@PaulDavisTheFirst@fosstodon.org @samaaron@mastodon.social @mafe@layer8.space @ercanbrack@mastodon.online Windows has a tendency to hand you buffer sizes that aren't a power of 2, the plugin host can't abstract that away for you unless it rebuffers, which would add latency. This might seem inconsequential, but for stuff like the dft and some other dsp algorithms it has performance implications.