Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Plugins and presets?
From: David Olofson (david_AT_gardena.net)
Date: Sun Dec 17 2000 - 02:34:21 EET
On Friday 15 December 2000 11:38, Steve Harris wrote:
> Yes, thats what I suggested a few days ago.
>
> Something like ~/.ladspa/presets/<idnum>/foo.whatever and
> /usr/local/share/ladspa/presets/...
>
> I think it's better to make it LADSPA specific though. Cuts down
> the complexity, but you could make the DTD extensible to other
> plugin formats.
Well, any implementation would *have* to be specific to one or more
plugin APIs (or use some kind of middleware, but that quickly gets
very complicated), but the DTD could (and probably should) be pretty
much plugin API independent.
> There are some important comlexity/usefulness tradeoffs though, do
> you extend it to 'lambda' nets? How about host specific
> information? (not sure what it would be, but...)
Hmm... Well, it depends on the data format used to describe nets and
lambda nets, I guess...
*thinking*
If lambda nets look like plugins on a higher level, what prevents the
preset data format from providing presets for lambda nets? The preset
DTD would probably have the abstraction required to do that anyway,
if designed properly.
//David
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