Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] more LADSPA GUI
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 20:58:39 EEST
In message <392D4535.C3E23634_AT_nbcs.rutgers.edu>you write:
>Why not make each plug-in have a control port that talks something
>(perhaps not entirely unlike MIDI), then make a single "control panel"
>application that can talk to that port (and others)?
>
>I may be missing something in the wash of LADSPA GUI posts, if so please
>forgive me, but I think you're all losing sight of something.
>Separation of "control" and "synthesis" is one of the most powerful
>concepts in Electronic Music today. You're trying to stick fancy front
>panels on the front of all your black boxes.
But the connections are not intimate. All the proposals that I've seen
are completely compatible with an MVC programming model, and thats
just what we need.
> The real sex reaction
Yeah!
>comes out of the user when they sit behind a single desk covered with
>knobs. The $300 backlit LCD display and array of 10 front panel buttons
>is quickly forgotten when you get a Mackie HUI and a decent sized
>monitor in front of you.
Ah, forget the HUI, it has only 8 faders. Get down with a D8B
tomorrow!
--p
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