[LAD] LV2-C++-Tools

[Aurélien Leblond]

>On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 06:50:10PM +0000, Aurélien Leblond wrote:
>>
>>> @Fons: I phrased it wrong the first time :) by expensive, I meant that
>>> my poor design was creating a lot of xruns :)
>>
>> As Dave has already pointer out, a plugin - at least the DSP
>> part of it - is not the proper place to do anything X.
>>
>> It would probably fairly easy for the host to provide X,Y on
>> two control ports, just as it provides the Jack ports, MIDI
>> interfaces etc.

> Just trying to be the voice of reason here... There are plenty of
> tools out there to convert joystick/mouse/whatever position into
> sensible MIDI messages. I've even written a few myself:
>
> http://lsmi-all.sf.net
>
> IMHO, one should never need to deal with input devices in a plugin.
> And, yes, the host could also provide this information, but I don't
> think it's the hosts responsibility to be providing the plugin any
> information that the user didn't explicitly request be delivered to
> the plugin (e.g. by clicking on an XY Pad control and moving the
> cursor position).
>
> Anyway, if you ever want to be able to record and playback this
> theremin sound, MIDI is the way to go.

That actually makes a lot of sense.
I'll remove the mouse plugin from the AVW ones so.

Thanks for the help!

Aurélien