> Some sort of (seperate, technical) statement from the l-a-d community > about what features we'd like is probably a good idea too. We have more > experiences in some areas than the closed plugin systems, eg. plugins as > modular synth modules, natural ranges*, seperating UIs from DSP code** and > metadata.
Yes - rather than flood with duplicate requests. My immediate thoughts: * Implementable in C, not C++ * Agnostic about multiple inputs/outputs * Event driven * No MIDI legacy, but able to automagically connect MIDI hints * Named audio ports (Left, Right, etc) for clever connections between plugins * Native support/hints for control types - Float/Int - Boolean - Enum - String * Arbitrary per-voice continuous controls * Some way to seek into long samples (optional for plugins to support) * Mono float buffers
