[LAU] Where do LADSPA presets get saved?

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 11:31:38PM -0500, frank pirrone wrote:

> On 03/09/2010 11:12 PM, Ken Restivo wrote:
> > 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
> >    
> 
> /usr/share/ladspa/rdf

Ladspa plugins don't have any code to save presets, the host
has to do this. For Ardour, look at 

$HOME/.ladspa/rdf/ardour-presets.n3

Ciao,

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