Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Well, a 'rich' plugin standard has to provide almost > everything that the operating system provides: audio, > midi, GUI, network,... So why not use the system as > your host ? All it takes is a good session manager.
This is clearly a repeating theme here. Is LASH the solution to this issue, then? I remember looking at the documentation for it and thinking it didn't look too difficult to implement. Reaktor works by having a standalone app for designing new ensembles (a complete instrument, effect, or combination thereof), and the VST plug-in is basically the core engine with the GUI engine running the ensemble without all of the graph-y back-end editing features. I don't know any of the details on how they made this work. I get the impression that the Emu Emulator X/X2 sampler works the same way. Gigasampler is not a plug-in, but used Propellerhead's ReWire, perhaps the closest analog to JACK on Windows. ReWire, though, can save the state of the slave programs "wired in" to the host app. I don't know how they accomplish this. (Big fat lot of help I am, I know.) I'd still like to think that there is still an innovative solution to this problem, and that we are the ones destined to find it. Time for some brainstorming, perhaps? -- Darren Landrum _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
