Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 09 2004 - 12:13:18 EEST
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:38:04 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 14:12, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > > True somehow but then also not: If I don't like a UI I'd like to be
> > > able to change it. That's something valueable that VST doesn't allow
> > > you to do - or makes it harder.
> >
> > VST certainly does allow this. When using VST plugins in Ableton Live,
> > the default interface is Live's widgets, but then you click on the
> > wrench (or whatever its supposed to be) and it opens up the VST plugin's
> > native GUI.
>
> You got me when I was cheating. ;) Actually I found out it's the same
> in VST for Pd (on Win, but also using vstserver): You can still
> control the plugin through Pd's internal messages and the actual GUI
> only shows when you tell it to do so. So yes, my argument wasn't
> fully valid, sorry.
Actually it was - you can have 1 cutom UI that will work in any host, and
any number of generic, host specific UIs.
If the user wants to build thier own (curses for e.g.) UI to work in
all hosts, theyre screwed.
- Steve
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