Re: [LAU] linuxDSP LV2 plugins for Ardour and linux DAWs

From: <fons@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jul 25 2010 - 23:32:51 EEST

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:39:08PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:

> The plains are littered with the carcasses of orphaned VST's.
>
> Also, it's possible that a lot of the plugins out there-- particularly closed VST's-- are just eye candy, and the code actually is horrid. We'll never know, because we can't read it. You certainly can't tell good code from bad code by looking at the sick GUI they put on top of it.

There's also a lot of horrid code you *can* read. Apparently
nobody reads it, at most it gets copied blindly to yet another
plugin which then inherits the problems of the one it is based
on.

Ciao,

-- 
FA
There are three of them, and Alleline.
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