8 Jul
2016
8 Jul
'16
4:48 p.m.
On 07/08/2016 01:28 PM, Philip Yassin wrote:
It has been like this for as long as I can remember:
When I insert a
ZASFX plugin instance in a Qtractor session, gone is the joy I have
editing my session files, because all the ZADSFX entries are messed up:
the "<" character is represented by its ASCII entity: "<"
and it make
even my Emacs choke: scrambles the formatting, the syntax highlight, the
indentation, everything. The right chevron is OK.
Looks like this:
(...)
<plugins>
<plugin type="LV2">
<filename>http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net</filename>
<index>0</index>
<label>ZynAddSubFX</label>
<preset></preset>
<direct-access-param>-1</direct-access-param>
<activated>1</activated>
<configs>
<config key="urn:distrho:state">
<?xml version="1.0f" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE ZynAddSubFX-data>
<ZynAddSubFX-data version-major="2" version-minor="5"
version-revision="4" ZynAddSubFX-author="Nasca Octavian Paul">
<INFORMATION />
<BASE_PARAMETERS>
(...)
I hate to be the "Sales dept guy in the tech open-space" but surely
/this doesn't sound like something that would be that hard to fix/ (tm) ;p
Oh, and it doesn't cause any other problem that I can think of, BTW. But
still.
Phil
PS - ZynAddSubFx is, despite everything, the coolest synth I worked
with, by far. I want to warmly thank everybody that made using it in
Qtractor possible, guys, you are heroes of mine.
PPS -Is there any plans to have (at least some of) its controls
automatable? I asked this in a whisper because I want it so bad it's
ridiculous :p
uh oh... maybe it's the distrho implementation lv2_state to blame? maybe
a lv2::string is being reported (by disthro), and then qtractor's xml
parser (qt xml/dom) just escapes the state as bland xml::cdata aka. POD
(plain old data)?
otoh. zynaddsubfx is a dang complicated contraption... i doubt it will
ever have any subset (yes, tiny subset) of parameters that may have any
reasonable automatable capabilities, besides, of course, the nominal
ones: read channel volume, panning, modulation, filter cutoff and reso,
regular effect-sends, like chorus and reverb. and that is already plenty
overwhelming to address from the plugin pov. (no matter it's vst or lv2
we're talking). from a host's stand point, it gets what it gets, nothing
else. yoshimi might have an edge over there, but still, you get what you
get :)
cheers
--
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela