[LAU] LV2 plugin to control alsa?

This would not be portable across os... and require a config file. I am wondering if it is possible. I am thinking it would be nice to have an lv2 alsa trimpot. The idea is that it would not affect the audio passing through, but provide a control that varies the level of an alsa control. This is so a mixer strip that was composed of plugins would be able to also control the alsa preamp level if it was available. I realize figuring out which channel goes to which strip at any one time (the same input channel might be routed to a number of channels at the same time) would be _difficult_. Knowing which control changes the level one wants might be hard to automate too. The user interface would require the ability for the user to set it (them). If there was more than one for the same control they would have to track as well (alsa mixers seem to do this already though). The easy way to do this would be to throw away incoming audio and select our own. Some sort of middleware that gave a common interface for all AIs would make this much easier too. Mudita24 has MIDI control for this... but alas the midi control does not extend to the pre levels (ADC levels) where it would be most useful (or at least moving these controls outputs no midi the way the multimix controls do). So far as I know, nobody does this, even in OSX/windows land though of course it is common on both analog and digital mixboards even when the pre is at the other end of a snake or on a foreign interface. -- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net