[linux-audio-dev] VST 2.0 observations

David Olofson david at olofson.net
Sat Dec 14 12:11:01 UTC 2002


On Saturday 14 December 2002 11.19, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 06:48:53 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> > 4. There is a feature that allows plugins to tell the host
> >    which "category" they would fit in. (There is some
> >    enumeration for that somewhere.) Might be rather handy
> >    when you have a large number of plugins installed...
>
> This is a classic example of where external metadata is noticably
> superiour.

Yeah. Especially since users may not agree with the authors' choices, 
or may simply want to have plugins categorized based on different 
criteria.


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