[LAU] Where do LADSPA presets get saved?

Ken Restivo ken at restivo.org
Tue Mar 9 23:12:50 EST 2010


On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 08:41:09PM +0000, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 12:22 -0800, Ken Restivo wrote:
> > I'm trying to Git-ify everything in my music setup. So far so good, except I can't figure out where LADSPA presets get saved.
> > 
> > After poking around through the Ardour sourcecode, it looks like the presets don't get saved by Ardour itself; it calls a function in the plugin itself (IIRC, plugin->save_preset() or something like that). Where the plugin actually saves its state is a mystery to me.
> > 
> > Any hints?
> 
> AFAICT it's implementation-dependent.
> 

Wait... what?

Meaning, every LADSPA plugin can save its presets in a totally different place?

That's insane.

How do I transfer the presets between different machines? How can I put them into a version-control system?

Auugh.

-ken


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