[linux-audio-dev] Modular synths of the world, unite and take over :-)

torbenh at gmx.de torbenh at gmx.de
Fri Mar 21 18:15:01 UTC 2003


On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:28:42AM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:32:34 +0300, Roman Kaljakin wrote:
> > > What I like about this solution is that it would not only allow to share
> > > modules among the many softsynths, but it could also be used to solve the
> > > GUI/Toolkit problem. Namely one could also express the GUI layout
> > > information in XML. People can then "compile" the XML files and get both
> > > the module's DSP code in the format appropriate for their synth and also
> > > the GUI code for the Toolkit (e.g. QT ot GTK) of their choice.
> >  
> >  Yes, I think it would be a logical extension of LADSPA specification.
> 
> Yes, it would be useful, but its a lot of work (DTD, toolkit bindings
> etc.) and it doesn;t solve the immediate problem of UIs that cannot be
> succesfully represented in XML, eg. (my favourite exmaple) a lowpass
> filter plugin, which should render the freq. response of the filter.

have a second instance of the filter on a sheet, send an impulse
through it and sample it using a sampler :) should work. 

But the general problem is of course not solved...


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torben Hohn
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