[linux-audio-user] Re: New LADSPA Hints (Was: [ANNOUNCE] tapiir-0.7.1)

[Steve Harris]

I think there was one more too, but I can't think what it was...
I agree AUDIO_RATE_CONTROL should be renamed.

There was a suggestion on ardour-dev that a hint to say whether control outs
were supposed to be informative or a source of control data might help,
but I'm not sure about it.

Does someone want to reword these in a more meaningful way? If not I'l do
it, then you'l be sorry ;).

- Steve

> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:13:35 +0000
> Steve Harris <S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > There have been a few suggestions recently, I'l try to summarise them
> > for comment.
> > 
> > MOMENTARY. A hint to suggest that a control should behave like a
> > momentary switch, eg. on for as long as the user holds down the
> > key/mouse button/whatever. Useful for reset or sync controls for
> > example. Would be useful in the DJ flanger. Only applies to TOGGLED
> > controls.
> > 
> > AUDIO_RATE_CONTROL. Hints than an audio control should/could be
> > controlled by a high time res. slider or control data, but shouldn't
> > be connected to the next audio signal by default. I can't think of any
> > simple examples off hand, but combined with MOMENTARY it could be used
> > for sample accurate tempo tapping.
> > 
> > RANDOMISABLE. Hints that its useful/meaningful to randomise the port
> > if the user hits a button. This is useful for the steps of control
> > sequencers, reverbs, and just about anything that's complex. Allows
> > you to specify which controls can be randomised without anything too
> > supprising happening to the user (eg. sudden +100dB gain would be
> > unpleasent).