[linux-audio-dev] VST 2.0 observations

David Olofson david at olofson.net
Sat Dec 14 15:10:13 UTC 2002


On Saturday 14 December 2002 18.55, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 06:04:55 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> [plugin categorisation]
>
> > > 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.
>
> Or the author may want to extend the categories.

Yeah... *heh* I see a great deal of that sort of metadata related 
(and other) feature creep in VST. It's becoming a mess, and people 
are whining about it more and more frequently.


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