Excerpts from fons's message of 2010-07-08 00:08:11 +0200: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 10:56:24PM +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > > But I'm sure that you see the benefit of a single plugin standard as VST > > pretty much is on windows. Anyway, there's no easy way to solve the > > multiple-standards thing in Linux land apparently. > > A single standard would be a good thing. But in the field of > audio plugin standards all Linux efforts have had the same > approach: to make things as simple as possible in order to > avoid scaring away even the most unprepared would-be authors. > With the result of ignoring any form of real analysis, or > pushing it into the future.
The 'simple' part seems to have worked out well for LV2... > > One thing that I'm wondering about though, what about NASPRO? Do you > > think it might be able to wrap around your plugins and bridge to lv2? > > http://naspro.atheme.org/about > > If there's one thing I do detest down to the center of my bones > it is such wrapping of layer upon layer to transform A into B. > > And if NASPRO would be able to 'bridge' my system, it would still > require extensions to LV2 which is its base, the same that would > be required without NASPRO. Nothing at all is gained by doing this. > > Ciao, Ah, didn't know detest is an English word as well.. I understand why you hate this, it rarely works as well as it should. On the other hand, software today is nothing but layer upon layer upon layer... NASPROs goal is a noble and pragmatic one however, it tries to make any plugin available in any lv2 host. Afaik, I still haven't tested it, it doesn't provide any GUI. -- Regards, Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
