[linux-audio-dev] Project: modular synth editor

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jan 16 20:11:40 UTC 2004


On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 02:39:36 -0500, Dave Robillard wrote:
> Not once in my fiddlings with LADSPA plugins in a modular synth have I
> said to myself "Damn.. these things need a big spiffy GUI".  Honestly, a
> bunch of sliders works just fine for me - I don't really see the need
> for more.  Sure, VSTs that look like shiny audio hardware are nifty...
> but who cares?  

Thats more symtom than cause - peopel tend not to build complex plugins
because you make a decent UI for them.
 
> (I mean, yes it would be nice if LADSPA could do that I guess.  But it
> can't, and I think it's a completely seperate problem to the modular
> synth/polyphony/port connected problems)

Its not that LADSPA cant its just that we havent standardised a protocol.

- Steve



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