13 Oct
2016
13 Oct
'16
9:12 p.m.
The future of audio plugins ?
Hopefully none... the whole concept of loading some binary blobs into
some host and expecting scalable reliable realtime performance is absurd
to begin with. Oh well, I suppose it could be worse.
Plugins that network themselves together, sharing
audio analysis,
sharing data, taking decisions together on how to apply themselves as
a group to an audio track, to stems, to a whole session.
Would that not be like an instrument playing itself?
Is there any standard protocol currently in the works
that would
enable plugins of various companies, of various projects, to be able
to exchange data ?
The only existing one with a complete ontology that I know of is LV2.
You can network LV2 plugins already: e.g. Ingen provides for message
ports, CV ports as well as control-port networks (apart from usual
audio/midi) in a modular fashion.
ciao,
robin