[LAD] Saving plugin presets

Stefan Kost ensonic at hora-obscura.de
Sun Jan 18 16:06:21 UTC 2009


Luis Garrido schrieb:
>>> i would like to know if somebody has already thought about a (unified)
>>> way to save or export the settings of ladspa  plugins (or vst,lv2..)
> 
> I gave it some thought for a project of mine which sleeps the dream of
> the just until I get some motivation to finish it.
> 
>> I would love to see that too. I would say its enough to agree on the conventions
>> (format and place in filesystem) and add them as a comment to the ladspa header.
> 
> Ah, but that's a big, hairy, controversial "enough", unfortunately.
> Some will swear for RDF turtle, some will kill in the name of a xml
> dialect and some will argue the merits of no-nonsense ini files.
>
So far no one has. If we want to get this going it should be simples as the rest
of ladspa. I think the format I proposed is so simple that one can parse/write
it without pulling additional dependencies into projects (see the attached example).

> 
> Then someone will come up with an abstraction layer to rule them all,
> and in the darkness bind them.
>
That we should avoid.

> 
> I guess this will be in a state of flux until a dominant project sways
> enough number of users to become widely adopted, probably Ardour, so
> brush your shells and learn to dance the turtle.
> 
> Luis
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