On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:49 PM, David Robillard
<d@drobilla.net> wrote:
On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 01:43 +0200, Albert Graef wrote:
> On 05/28/2012 07:27 PM, David Robillard wrote:
> > For live plugins if you're going to stop continually running the plugin,
> > you must deactivate it, so I can see how a complete and total state
> > reset here might be undesirable. I'm not sure. A complete
> > cleanup/re-initialization is always an option for a total reset, though
> > of course not real-time whatsoever.
>
> I'd say that the standard case here is to *keep* all the MIDI controller
> settings, not reset them. Just imagine that you're running a reverb
> which forgets all settings when you briefly deactivate it in order to
> listen to the dry signal.
there's a misconception right there, i think. you wouldn't deactivate it to listen to the dry signal. you'd bypass it using some feature of the host.