[linux-audio-dev] LADSPA Instruments

[torbenh at gmx.de]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:53:15AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> 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.

yeah... 
> 
> 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.

these LFOs must be implemented in the host also.

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

which is implemented in ams, beast, galan, ssm...


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