>I agree, it sounds ridiculous -- on first hearing at least. I'm going >to have to go and read some of this ardour-dev discussion (it's not a >list I subscribe to) and see if it makes any more sense to me then.
ardour-dev has nothing. we do almost all discussion on IRC these days. >I realise it's not easy (or even always possible) to do the Right Thing >in the host -- my own host has some way to go too -- but I don't >understand why it should be better to create dozens of spurious plugins >than to give the user the information they need and let them decide how >a plugin should be handled. definitely. for the record, i intend to have ardour do the right thing post-2.0, but right now when i am putting out fires that prevent us from turning the corner to 1.0, a solution is required, or maybe i should say "decision" :) right now, ardour just requires the user to set this up manually. the only argument i can see in favor of at least some 2in/2out plugins having a 1in/2out cousin is that their DSP algorithms are actually different in each case. whether thats true for the typical cases under discussion, i don't know. --p
