[LAD] [ANN] LV2 beta3

[torbenh at gmx.de]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:49AM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:14:05PM -0400, Thomas Vecchione wrote:
> 
> > >Either way, everything just works (or not) as it should.
> > >
> > 
> > Not to someone not familiar with the internals of how LV2 works.  As an 
> > example(I hate to bring up) how many people do you think could tell you 
> > how the ineternals of a VST program work.  Heck how many do you think 
> > have an even basic idea of computer programming, much less tell you the 
> > above.
> 
> What has understanding internals to do with this?
> All that will need to be understood is that is-an-LV2 is not 
> enough to describe a plugin or host.
> 
>  
> > Again for a programmer and specifically someone familiar with how LV2 
> > works, that is fine.  For someone that has no concept of programming, 
> > and just want something that works when(To them) it is supposed to, this 
> > is a huge screwup that can be fixed relatively easily to be honest.
> 
> Fixed relatively easy how?
> 
> 
> > Once again, this is not about me I am mentioning this.  This is for the 
> > half dozen people(As of right now, obviously not counting those that I 
> > have gotten used to linux and how things work that might start again) 
> > that still come to me wondering why something doesn't 'just work'.
> 
> Do you propose to not have a plugin standard that can be extended for 
> various current and possible future needs to avoid some possible user 
> confusion?
> 
> Shall all hosts be forced to support all extensions available so 
> that a sample editor would have to "support" MIDI plugins?

the problem will be rather: why has this plugin a GUI in ardour and
ingen and not in qtractor.

while this other plugin has a gui in qtractor and non in ardour and
ingen. 

-- 
torben Hohn
http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language