Re: [LAU] The future of audio plugins ?

From: jonetsu <jonetsu@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Oct 13 2016 - 23:22:34 EEST

On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:39:24 -0400
Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Plugins have no access to data beyond the track they are present in,
> and very limited session-global data provided by the host. This is
> pretty much the nature of all plugin APIs.

For instance all plugins within a track would communicate between
themselves to take decisions. Likewise when they're on a stem or the
master buss.

> Some plugin companies are interested in doing things at the session
> level, but have realized that do what they want, they need their own
> DAW.

Hmmm... Network sockets, to take a common parallel, could be created by
plugins. After all this is about communication between plugins. Not
sure that a dedicated DAW would be needed.

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