[Stk] signal processing super class?

[Perry R Cook]

Greg,

Why not make them subclasses of Filter?  A filter is anything
that takes an input and yields an output and hopefully does
something interesting in the process.  

PRC

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, greg kellum wrote:

> hello all
> 
> i've been developing an application with the stk that among other things 
> allows users to chain effects together to process the output of the 
> instruments, and it has occurred to me that it would be really nice if there 
> was a super class for all the effects and sound processing classes. if there 
> was a super class with a virtual tick(MY_FLOAT) method, then you iterate 
> through a vector of effects calling tick on each effect without having to 
> know what effect is actually being used. at the moment you first have to 
> figure out what kind of object it is you're working with and using an ugly 
> block of if / else statements cast down to it. the only problem that a super 
> class presents is finding a suitable name for it...
> 
> greg kellum
> 
> 
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