[LAD] Specification issues in open systems

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Sat Sep 27 20:40:15 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 16:35 -0400, Darren Landrum wrote:
> Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > First, why should a complete instrument, taking in
> > MIDI and producing audio, be a plugin in Rosegarden
> > or any other sequencer ? It would be much more useful
> > as a standalone app, and probably *a lot* easier to
> > develop. I wouldn't think for even a fraction of a
> > second to write Aeolus as a plugin - it would be an
> > exercise in self-torture of the third degree.
> 
> Except the biggest advantage of plug-ins is session state saving: When I 
> have one master app that stores the states of all of my plug-ins, I can 
> save out the session, and recall it later exactly as I saved it. Where 
> is the functionality in JACK for that? 

something must be going wrong with the world darren. we're in agreement
with each other twice in the same month :))

--p





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