Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:46:40AM +1000, Geoff Beasley wrote: There's a number of them in more or less finished state and being tested here and there in the form of standalone Jack apps. You can see one of them (a 'Neve style' EQ, in standalone form) here: <http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/eq1.png>. There are also two dynamics processors, and improved 'autotune', a reverb and some others. If I would release them, the first thing that would happen is that the very same people who in the past have refused to accept everything I'd had to say about plugins, and accused me of spreading FUD and being elitist etc. etc. would be the first one to have no moral objections at all to rip out the DSP code made by someone they despise, and turn these plugins into LV2s. Since IMNSHO the quality of these plugins resides not only in the DSP code but in other aspects as well, that would mean that a lot of my effort would just be wasted, and I'm not looking forward to see that happen. There is currently no LV2 host that even comes close to being able to accept these plugins in their original full-featured form. So I'm designing a dedicated framework around them, with the following features: - All plugins have a dedicated GUI, defined up to the last pixel by the plugin author. There are no 'autogenerated' GUIs. - The GUI parts are displayed in 'rack' form in a separate process. So you don't have a zillion plugin windows cluttering your desktop. In principle there's one such rack window per host, but it could be shared as well, or a host could have more than one. If the host's GUI toolset has the right hooks and is capable of providing the right information (all of it just raw X11 data), the host could quite easily 'embed' the rack. With a bit more effort it could even embed individual plugins. - The communication between the DSP plugin (running in the host process) and the GUI plugin (running in the rack application) is strictly private to these two, even if technically it passes via the host. A separate API gives the host access to parameters in a controlled way. - Multichannel support is provided by the plugins themselves. The host is not supposed to 'clone' a single-channel one for multichannel use. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev(a)lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev