Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA Hosting

On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 08:18, Steve Harris wrote: Oh hey Steve! Those are your plugins! Many of them are real cool. I LOVE foldover distortion. I wanted to make one but couldn't find out how it works. Reason has foldover distortion, so I studied the knobs on it and tried to imagine the algorithm behind it. I also love Giant Flange. That box is wacko! How did you learn all those algorithms? Before I discovered these plugins I was trying to make all my effects myself, but I can't find enough information or examples to help me, or I find electrical engineering mathematical documentation that takes me many weeks of reading to understand (I'm just a humble A.A. grad). Before I moved to Linux, on Windows, people make free VST plug-ins, but don't give you the source code. I think that sucks, because I am in the dark on how it works, and I am by a nature a person who wants to understand how things work to the point I can modify them or make new things from them. Thanks for all your plugins Steve! I plan to study them and experiment with them if that's ok with you. I consider it a treasure trove that you gave me the source code for free. If anything, you have one person who is grateful for that. Give a man a fish, he'll be a hungry again. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for life. I think LADSPA is perfect really. Try programming VST sometimes. It's way to complicated and hard. LADSPA is really easy to use and make plugins for. I can live with it's quirks. The cool thing is with LADSPA I don't have to make these effects algorithms anymore and can concentrate on the application now.Now when I am ready to get into that DSP, I have plenty of things to study, and can concentrate on them. Appreciate it.