[LAU] The future of audio plugins ?
jonetsu
jonetsu at teksavvy.com
Thu Oct 13 20:22:34 UTC 2016
On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:39:24 -0400
Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> 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.
For instance all plugins within a track would communicate between
themselves to take decisions. Likewise when they're on a stem or the
master buss.
> 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.
Hmmm... Network sockets, to take a common parallel, could be created by
plugins. After all this is about communication between plugins. Not
sure that a dedicated DAW would be needed.
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