[LAU] ZynAddSubFX Usability Survey

[Paul Davis]

Most interesting presets are for instruments.  FX presets are interesting,
but on a per-plugin basis they tend to be less fascinating.

LADSPA doesn't support instruments at all.

The "state" extension for LV2 hasn't been around all that long.


On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Joel Roth <joelz at pobox.com> wrote:

> Paul Davis wrote:
> > (1) LADSPA as a "standard" doesn't define a preset API, but the first
> hosts
> > agreed to use LRDF as a preset format, and to store presets in a
> > host-neutral location (which is more or less what AudioUnits do). The
> > plugin itself has no API to set its state, but any LADSPA's plugin state
> > was intended to be representable solely in terms of its input control
> > ports, so the host just loads the LRDF preset and sets the control ports.
> >
> > (2) LV2 has the State extension (don't balk at "extension" - almost
> > everything in LV2 is an "extension) which is designed for saving plugin
> > state in a host and platform neutral way.
>
> I looked into this format, and see it is XML, found some
> presets in ~/.ladspa/rdf/ardour-presets.n3
>
> To make it easy to share presets it might be valuable to
> have an app-independent way of browsing and comparing them.
> We share a lot of music, here, and I hope that presets could
> be shared as readily.
>
> It surprises me, really, since without proprietary
> pre-cooked offerings, everyone producing music with Linux
> invests a lot of time to find suitable plugin settings.
> You'd think that open source source community would share
> them as well.
>
>
> --
> Joel Roth
>
>
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