Whether it is possible or not will depend on how the host handles the MIDI
coming from the plugin (dunno about Cubase, but the sequencer we are
developing will be able to record it into another track).

I am yet to find any major impossibility or drawback with VST2, which emerges
as a universal musical plugin interface IMO.

Michael Gogins wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the clarification. People, this VST 2 thing is a wakeup call. For
> the first time, a commercial composing environment has a representation of
> notes that is (just barely) adequate to music, if not as convenient as one
> would like for programmers. I hope that not everyone on this list is blind
> to the usefulness of having something like Csound sitting, ready to sound,
> inside something like Cubase.
> 
> The VST 2 standard has some other notable features:
> 
> Off-line processing of soundfiles
> Ability to send MIDI back to the host
> 
> I don't know whether the MIDI sent back to the host can be captured into a
> new sequencer track, though. Anybody know the answer to that one? If that is
> possible, then it is possible to write plugins for the purpose of
> algorithmic composition as well as for synthesis.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michel Jullian 
> To: Michael Gogins 
> Date: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 2:32 AM
> Subject: Re: sequencer
> 
> >Michael, as it happens there is a duration field in vst 2's midi msg
> structure too.
> >
> >Michael Gogins wrote:
> >>
> >> In the first place, it is simply rhetoric to say that MIDI doesn't have
> >> semantics. You may not like its semantics, but they are there.
> >>
> >> My motivation for this suggestion is to make it easier to inter-operate
> with
> >> existing protocols such as MIDI. I would not be the first developer to
> >> extend or change MIDI; its commercial developers have been doing this
> since
> >> the beginning. Just recently, for example, Cubase supplemented MIDI by
> >> including a cent field in the MIDI channel message structure in their new
> >> VST 2 plugin protocol. Adding a duration field would be a similar move.
> >...

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