[linux-audio-dev] Modular synths of the world, unite and take over :-)

[Steve Harris]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:32:34 +0300, Roman Kaljakin wrote:
> > What I like about this solution is that it would not only allow to share
> > modules among the many softsynths, but it could also be used to solve the
> > GUI/Toolkit problem. Namely one could also express the GUI layout
> > information in XML. People can then "compile" the XML files and get both
> > the module's DSP code in the format appropriate for their synth and also
> > the GUI code for the Toolkit (e.g. QT ot GTK) of their choice.
>  
>  Yes, I think it would be a logical extension of LADSPA specification.

Yes, it would be useful, but its a lot of work (DTD, toolkit bindings
etc.) and it doesn;t solve the immediate problem of UIs that cannot be
succesfully represented in XML, eg. (my favourite exmaple) a lowpass
filter plugin, which should render the freq. response of the filter.

- Steve