Hi Dan Thanks for the feedback... re the rates stuff:
I'd also like to mention one which came up re my chapter. In the plugin API the constants for the different rates are calc_ScalarRate (scalar-rate), calc_BufRate (control-rate), calc_FullRate (audio-rate), calc_DemandRate (demand-rate). "calc_BufRate" to me is a bit opaque/confusing and it would perhaps be more helpful to change over to "calc_ControlRate"? (Both constants would be preserved for a while, with calc_BufRate being deprecated, since it's in the API.) Grateful for thoughts on that.
Seems like ControlRate would make more sense for people who are in the know, but "BufRate" is actually more accurate to the semantics of the operation imho..
I don't like the idea of keeping both.. I say break plugins and change the name. If it has the same value it will only break things on recompile and developers will soon sort that out.
R.