Subject: Re: Feedback in LADSPA (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] New LADSPA Version - Issues Resolved?)
From: Paul Winkler (slinkp23_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: pe maalis 10 2000 - 15:27:25 EST
Jarno Seppanen wrote:
> IMHO banning feedback loops in plugin networks is a VERY bad idea, especially
> when it is already trivial to permit them. I think that if a user wants to
> add a cycle in his network, he has all the rights to do that! He must only
> know that the delays may not match at first attempt, but banning the whole
> attempt because of this is...is...censorship :-)
>
> I don't insist on having feedback in order to implement something like an IIR
> filter but for encouraging experimenting! Have a feedback around a delay line
> and add a dynamic range compressor to the feedback path! Or a waveshaper! Or
> a vocoder! It doesn't matter if there is 1, 5 or 50 milliseconds of delay as
> long as I can hook the compressor to the feedback loop. Implementing all of
> these examples inside different dedicated plugins makes experimenting in this
> sense almost impossible.
I strongly agree. If feedback is do-able, it really really should be
done. I think it makes an exponential increase in the possibilities
available to an end user.
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