Hallo!
You can in principle do some of the same stuff with
LADSPA or LV2; for
example LADSPA plugins can have output control ports (returning
analytical results, though only very simple ones) and you can define
LV2 extensions to describe more sophisticated data.
By the way: would it be also possible to make "non-realtime" LV2
extensions ?
This would make it possible to code audio-restauration or similar
algorithms with LV2 - for instance porting the algorithms from gnome
wave cleaner ...
LG
Georg
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