10 Apr
2003
10 Apr
'03
2:02 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 06:39:39 -0700, robbins jacob wrote:
This is important because it means that we can
implement _right_now_
ladspa instruments that can be used without the user having to hook up
control A to port B or generally know what the hell they're doing. In fact,
the sine oscillator plugin, provided by Richard Furse as an example plugin
for the ladspa sdk, is a reference example that host programmers can code
off of _right_now_. Just remember that each ladspa plugin instance is a
single voice, so polyphony must be implemented in the host. Fortunately,
this is not that hard(*).
It still means a fair ammount of manual wiring, you need to express things
like velocity, aftertouch and gate open/closed-ness.
Also implementing polyphony control in the host is less efficient, and it
means you can't have things like shared LFOs, which are very common.
OTOH, I agree that you can make very good synths out of LADSPA, but I
think it requires modular synth style wiring.
- Steve