Re: [LAD] [EPAMP] an effect plugin API for media players: anyone interested?

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 16:03 +0200, Stefano D'Angelo wrote: lets put it this way. the AudioUnit API includes a concept called a "graph" that is designed to let hosts do easy plugin chaining. there isn't a single noteworthy cross-platform host out that uses it, for two reasons: (a) its not cross-platform (b) every host has its own plugin abstraction already, and doesn't want to mess with trying to merge not just another plugin abstraction but a graph/interconnect/chaining one too. for what is worth, correct plugin chaining is pretty hard to do. ardour attempts to do this with LADSPA/VST/AudioUnit/LV2, and its really quite a difficult problem to get it right for all cases. what ardour does relies on mechanisms that some way outside of any of the above named plugin APIs, and are much more related to its internal signal processing model. if you tried to graft that code into some other host, my guess is that you'd have to completely reimplement it.