[LAD] preset saving in sessions

[Emanuel Rumpf]

Am 4. März 2012 22:47 schrieb David Robillard <d at drobilla.net>:
> On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 16:17 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 3:37 PM, J. Liles <malnourite at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>
>> consider the SFZ file format. it refers to other audio samples. it
>> doesn't require that the references use absolute paths, but they can.
>>

>> so now create a plugin that allows the user to alter what samples are
>> used for various note numbers or velocity values or whatever (i.e. a
>> reasonably capable sampler) and ask it to save its current state. it
>> gives you an SFZ file to stash away in a location of the host's own
>> choosing. but what do the contents refer to?
>
> Yeah, this problem sucks.  The only solution is for the plugin to map
> the paths inside that SFZ file.
>


> It is (inherently) necessary for the plugin to map *ALL* paths in its
> state for this to work.  If they happen to be in some pre-existing file,
> well, that's probably going to be pretty annoying, but you have to map
> them all the same.
>

For simplification, one could assume all samples had a common parent directory ?

Then the user could simply re-locate that common parent directory,
if the samples were not found ?

example:
/home /user /store /samples /shapewavs /sine.ogg

moved to:
/home /user /newplace /samples /shapewavs /sine.ogg

common parent directory: samples/