Re: [linux-audio-dev] TAP-plugins reverb presets

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Steve Harris wrote: Steve, I can not agree with any of these three sentences. My experience with ams and real analogue synths show that _any_ synth needs named switches. Already the first Moog modules had them. And all of my analogue synths have some of these selectors. They are as basic and fundamental as continuos sliders/potentiometers. If developers have not been aware of that at design time, well then it just needs to be fixed now on the basis of new insights ;-) So what we need is a HINT_ENUMERATION and a list of strings for the item names. Actually LADSPA would then have the complete controls I use for ams: continuous sliders, integer sliders, toggles and combobox selectors. I think this is the complete set you need. I think most people agreed that RDF should be optional. But it is not optional if any of the above mentioned "canonical" types is missing. Open e.g. the TAP reverb in the control center of ams. the preset parameter will look quite messed up. Look OTOH how beautiful it looks in the combobox selector hack I did yesterday. And we could have that by adding just some tiny HINT to LADSPA. Using RDF for categories is a very good example for an optional extension. Having to use it for a control that is standard in any hardware and software synth and audio processing gear is IMHO not appropriate. That is surprising, but again I'd say not an argument to stick to that mistake. Matthias -- Dr. Matthias Nagorni SuSE Linux AG Maxfeldstr. 5 phone: +49 911 74053375 D - 90409 Nuernberg fax : +49 911 74053483