Re: [LAD] How to develop guis for LV2?

On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, David Robillard wrote:

>> + The synths will have several MIDI input ports (for note data)
>> and several audio output ports.
>
> Several? Why?

Several as in "a non-negative integer." I.e. the host should be prepared
for a synth that has 1, 2, 3, 4, or even 0 ports.

>> + All configuration will be done with the events extension.
>
> Nothing more powerful than MIDI even exists for this yet. Nothing to do
> with synths.

:-( Good to know, though.

>> + Freely use extensions A, B, and C. If you use any extra
>> LV2 extensions, try to make them optional. Otherwise,
>> please simply call yourself an "LV2 Plugin," because you
>> won't work with every LV2 Synth Host.
>
> Extensions that are not necessary to function at all should be optional
> anyway, in all cases.

But if you know up-front which things to make optional... you can adjust
your implementation.

>> Would somthing like this be *so* bad?
>
> What benefit does it have? What problem does it solve? How is it even

So that I can write a synth plugin and be reasonably assured it will work
with "everyone's" LV2 synth host. So that I can write an LV2 host and be
reasonable assured that it work with "everyone's" LV2 synth plugin.

> any different from what might be the equivalent for an "effect" plugin?

Because Synths are usually more complicated than an effect, and less
well-defined conceptually. There's presets, samples, MIDI
implementations, sound libraries, routings, effects in the sampler,
variable number of ports, various ways to pass data, etc.

> If you want to start such a thing, it's a wiki for a reason ;) It's
> much easier to revise there than on the list.

...but much harder to *discuss*. ;)

-gabriel

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Received on Sun Nov 8 20:15:06 2009