[linux-audio-dev] processing plugin standard wrapper

[Paul Coccoli]

On 2/14/07, Stefano D'Angelo <zanga.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> I understand that most of you don't feel the need to have such thing,
> because LADSPA support is everywhere and lots of LADSPA plugins are
> good, but from my point of view there are thousands of VST plugins
> around and thousands of hardware machines that use VST and that little
> program I'm going to write simply can't ignore this situation.
> I'm absolutely pro-LADSPA/LV2, and I particularly dislike VST license,
> but it's not a reason to exclude support right now. And it is not a
> reason to stop experimenting new possible solutions.
> At the end freedom is choice, isn't it?
>
> Stefano
>

Aren't you kind of glossing over the fact that those thousands of VST
plugins around were all written for a different OS, and therefore
"wrapping" them involves a whole mess of technical and philosophical
problems?

Personally, I'd rather see the effort go towards making LV2 a real,
workable standard with all the important features (presets, host tempo
sync, MIDI handling/processing) that some of the other standards have.