[LAU] The future of audio plugins ?

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Thu Oct 13 19:41:00 UTC 2016


On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 20:39:02 +0200, Markus Seeber wrote: 
>Depends on what type of data and the constraints.
>Maybe OSC? MIDI? Ableton Link? JACK transport? LV2 Atoms? TCP sockets?
>MPEG media Transport? copper wire?
>
>
>Plugin hosts like Carla (
>http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Applications:Carla )
>can do some things to make it possible to use different plugin types
>together to some degree, if that is what you are looking for.

On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:39:24 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
>Plugins have no access to data beyond the track they are present in,
>and very limited session-global data provided by the host. This is
>pretty much the nature of all plugin APIs.
>
>Some plugin companies are interested in doing things at the session
>level, but have realized that do what they want, they need their own
>DAW.

At least proprietary software claims to connect audio, MIDI and sync of
the provided different formats, by newer hosts with more precision and
better assignment abilities, than it is possible with established apps.

Today I read about http://musicappblog.com/aum-review/ ,
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aum-audio-mixer/id1055636344?mt=8 .

I don't know if this is just another host/mixer with some gimmicks, IOW
just something we could do with the provided software on all
platforms, within the limitations of the supported formats, or if it
introduces something new and useful.

Perhaps I purchase it tomorrow, OTOH I also decided to install Carla a
while back and in the end I never used it.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep carla /var/log/pacman.log 
[2015-08-28 10:17] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -U carla-git-1.9.6.r239.g876cf81-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2015-08-28 10:17] [ALPM] installed carla-git (1.9.6.r239.g876cf81-2)
[2015-08-28 10:47] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-rocketmouse/PKGDEST.I9q/carla-bridges-win-2.0beta4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2015-08-28 10:47] [ALPM] installed carla-bridges-win (2.0beta4-1)

Maybe the proprietary, as well as the free Linux formats already
provide more interconnectedness than we expect, resp. need.

Regards,
Ralf





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