[LAU] linuxDSP LV2 plugins for Ardour and linux DAWs

Orcan Ogetbil oget.fedora at gmail.com
Tue Jul 27 22:59:46 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 4:32 PM, fons wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:39:08PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
>
>> The plains are littered with the carcasses of orphaned VST's.
>>
>> Also, it's possible that a lot of the plugins out there-- particularly closed VST's-- are just eye candy, and the code actually is horrid. We'll never know, because we can't read it. You certainly can't tell good code from bad code by looking at the sick GUI they put on top of it.
>
> There's also a lot of horrid code you *can* read. Apparently
> nobody reads it, at most it gets copied blindly to yet another
> plugin which then inherits the problems of the one it is based
> on.
>

I think this is weak inference. Many people might still be reading the
code. Only those who don't read are copying the horrid code blindly to
their project.

Orcan


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