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: "&lt;" 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">
&lt;?xml version="1.0f" encoding="UTF-8"?>
&lt;!DOCTYPE ZynAddSubFX-data>
&lt;ZynAddSubFX-data version-major="2" version-minor="5"
version-revision="4" ZynAddSubFX-author="Nasca Octavian Paul">
&lt;INFORMATION />
&lt;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
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