Re: [LAD] LV2 mono instruments recommended?

Hi Stefan:

Cool to see spectmorph come as a plugin!

IMO I'd let the host deal with it how they see fit. There's probably a
panner in Qtractor to put it in the center. To have a "stereo" output
with no actual stereo data seems wasteful and misleading to me. My lv2
CA synth is mono and I haven't had complaints (though I don't have
high usership either).

_Spencer
p.s. there's also an lv2_dev mailing list if you have other lv2 questions.

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Stefan Westerfeld <stefan@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm currently implementing a LV2 plugin for SpectMorph, and so far I only
> defined one audio port in the ttl file/source, as the output of the morphing
> algorithm is just mono.
>
> I have tested with Ardour and Qtractor. Ardour does what I'd expect: it plays
> my instrument output on both channels. Qtractor however just plays my mono data
> on one channel, the other is silent. Which is not what I want.
>
> So I am considering making my LV2 instrument always stereo, and just copy the
> output buffer from left to right - this is cheap, and probably not much more
> expensive than what the host would need to do anyway.
>
> Does this sound like the reasonable way to go?
>
> Cu... Stefan
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