[linux-audio-dev] LADSPA Instruments

[Steve Harris]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 06:39:39 -0700, robbins jacob wrote:
>   This is important because it means that we can implement _right_now_ 
> ladspa instruments that can be used without the user having to hook up 
> control A to port B or generally know what the hell they're doing. In fact, 
> the sine oscillator plugin, provided by Richard Furse as an example plugin 
> for the ladspa sdk, is a reference example that host programmers can code 
> off of _right_now_. Just remember that each ladspa plugin instance is a 
> single voice, so polyphony must be implemented in the host. Fortunately, 
> this is not that hard(*).

It still means a fair ammount of manual wiring, you need to express things
like velocity, aftertouch and gate open/closed-ness.

Also implementing polyphony control in the host is less efficient, and it
means you can't have things like shared LFOs, which are very common.

OTOH, I agree that you can make very good synths out of LADSPA, but I
think it requires modular synth style wiring.

- Steve