[LAU] New stuff: zita-dpl

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 11:31:51PM -0500, Caleb Reach wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 09:40:15 +0000, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> > So you need to monitor what it is doing, and that's one reason 
> > why DPL1 has the type of display it has, and why it is not a
> > Ladspa plugin. 
> > 
> > A second one is that I wrote this to have a limiter that can be
> > used on multichannel (mainly AMB here) mixes. Since Ladspa has
> > no 'create-time' parameters, this would require a different
> > plugin for each channel count. 
> 
> Hey Fons, thanks for the limiter!
> 
> The LV2 plugin spec permits custom GUIs, and the dynparam extension
> allows the number of parameters to vary (I'm not sure if there's a
> built-in way to do this).

AFAIK, a custom GUI in LV2 means either you use the same toolkit
as the host, or the plugin GUI becomes a separate process. The
latter may be fine for one or two plugins, but it doesn't scale.

The dynparam extension and init-time parameters are two separate
things. I don't know if LV2 allows the latter. Maybe with another
extension. 

I may consider writing some of my apps as LV2s if and when there
is host that has all the extensions I need. That is not the case,
and I don't see it happen any time soon. 

 
> By the way, I may be misreading, but wouldn't the license in dplimit1.cc
> prohibit others from making plugin ports and from including this in GPL
> software?

That is correct.

Ciao,

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FA

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