[linux-audio-dev] LADSPA proposal ...

Fons Adriaensen fons.adriaensen at skynet.be
Sun May 16 00:43:17 UTC 2004


On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 09:05:57AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 01:12:13 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:50:31PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> > 
> > > I dont really see the avantage of this - control and description are
> > > seperate tasks, and not even closely related.
> > 
> > Very closely related if you consider that the ultimate purpose of a
> > description is to control something. Why should there be any difference
> > between
> > 
> > A.  a description of a plugin's interface,
> > B.  a set of commands that make a host accomodate the plugin ?
> 
> It depends on the task the app is trying to achieve, if its trying to find
> a plugin thats a "compressor" with stereo inputs then evaluating all the
> instructions in the pile to try and find a match is not very convienient.

Just use a command that will add the necessary information to a database
maintained by the host. Searching for a plugin and actually hosting it
are two separate actions.

-- 
FA




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