[LAD] Saving plugin presets

[Sebastian Moors]

Stefan Kost schrieb:
> Luis Garrido schrieb:
>   
>>> 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).
>
>   
Stefan's proposal is very much the design i had in  my mind when i wrote 
the mail. But i would like to point out two important facts:

1.It shouldn't rely on a particular plugin type. Lv2 is coming and it 
should be supported as well. No big problem so far..
2.It shouldn't rely on a special library (parser,database..). Free audio 
software is often used not only on linux - hydrogen (for example) is 
available for linux, windows and mac os x. This makes me think that 
plain text files would be a good choice for this task. Just keep it 
simple..

But how shoud  those files be stored ? As a subfolder in ladspa/lv2 
plugin directories? Or in a seperate directory, something like 
"~/.plugin-presets/" ?
(Ok, plugin-presets could lead to some confusion...)

What we really need is an agreement between the big linux audio 
applications. As a hydrogen developer, i could ask the rest of the team 
about this topic. Any comments from the ardour-team or other projects?


- Sebastian