[linux-audio-dev] LADSPA 2

[Dave Robillard]

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 15:14 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:01:26PM +0200, Lars Luthman wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not sure that all of this belongs in LADSPA (the Simple Plugin
> > Architecture). DSSI has support for presets, MIDI in, GUIs and some
> > support for polyphony (you can run several plugin instances as a
> > polyphony group with a single call to run_multiple() which lets you do
> > common calculations once).
> 
> I was about generated GUIs, not plugin specific ones.
> What's the reason that Om can treat DSSIs only as monophonic nodes
> again?

>From the host perspective, DSSI plugins /are/ monophonic.  There is no
access to the individual voices, they're mixed down in the plugin.

If LADSPA2 is to be polyphonic, it MUST not be like this.   The host
needs access to individual voices.

-DR-