1 May
2016
1 May
'16
2:03 p.m.
On 29/04/16 18:45, Paul Davis wrote:
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Will Godfrey
<willgodfrey(a)musically.me.uk <mailto:willgodfrey@musically.me.uk>> wrote:
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:37:25 -0400
Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com
<mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>> wrote:
> From Apple's "Optimizing Audio Unit User Experience in Logic
Studio"
>
[...]
However, I cited the stuff from Apple because a lot of
people forget
just how batshit crazy plugin hosting really is, and that for it work
well, the plugin (developer)
needs to be aware of certain basic guidelines. This is as true for the
GUI side of the plugin as it is for the DSP side
There's also an interesting user-experience corer to it. For example one
thing I noticed in Ardour is when you open a LADSPA plugin window Ardour
still 'grabs' keyboard shortcuts (e.g. SPACE to play, HOME to rewind);
open an LV2 window and I'm most often hitting HOME to rewind just to
discover I've set the parameter under focus (usually a shiny knob) to
its minimum value :)
This is just to point out consistency, I'm not sure what is better in
general, in theory adhering to some Library (GTK?, QT?, ...) 'standard'
would provide a consistent experience, but then I guess I'm the only one
entering numeric parameters into plugins (and therefore usually prefer
LADSPA..?).
Lorenzo.