Re: Plugin chains and EDLs, was Re: [linux-audio-dev] ardour, LADSPA, a marriage

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Subject: Re: Plugin chains and EDLs, was Re: [linux-audio-dev] ardour, LADSPA, a marriage
From: Paul Winkler (slinkp23_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2000 - 07:07:48 EET


Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
>
> >> 1) Could Ardour be a smart enough host to handle the patching? At this
> >> point I tend to think that pbd can do anything, so I'm going to assume
> >> yes. :) It's more a question of what pbd wants.
> >
> >At the moment, as I understand it, ardour can only use 1 input, 1 output
> >plugins, so no.
>
> Thats correct. It does handle plugin chains, but it doesn't do
> anything intelligent with input > 1 and/or output > 1 (other than just
> duplicate all the channels in place, so to speak.

I meant eventually, not right now. If I understand your posts
correctly, the answer is yes, eventually.

(snip)
> >something more appropriate), but my understanding of what an EDL does
> >doesn't include things like plugins. I think it's just a description of
> >which lump of audio to play next in a stream.

> yep. think of an EDL as a replacement for a disk file. thats really
> all it is. it just so happens that instead of getting data
> sequentially from the disk, the act of reading data from an EDL may
> use a data stream from all over the place, but thats just an
> implementation detail that the EDL user doesn't need to worry about.

Hmmm... maybe I'm misinformed... OK, when you save interesting bits of
control and configuration data that are specific to the piece you're
recording / mixing, what do you call that? I thought that EDL was a
catch-all for everything from simple splices to fader automation to
plugin networks. For instance, the "mixfiles" created by Mix.

> >You can uniquly describe a LADSPA net by stating what each plugin is
> >connected to and what all its parameters are. Infact it's probably
> >possible to create a LADSPA plugin which reads a nets description and then
> >offers all the unconnected inputs and outputs as its input and outputs.

brain not working right... what does that let the user do exactly?

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