Personally, I'd rather see the effort go towards making LV2 a real, workable standard with all the important features (presets, host tempo sync, MIDI handling/processing) that some of the other standards have.
count me in, I prefer putting developer time into creation and communication of native formats like LADSPA/DSSI and LV2 over supporting proprietary closed formats.
Communication means telling the world that there are some plugins for Linux too. When I look on KVRAudio I see nearly nothing in the Linux entrys and submitted immediately Ardour as a host which was missing too, a shame because its an important plus for Linux as musicplatform.
Problem is that the kids watch that site to see whats going on and what is available and perceive Linux kinda lame for audio, missing the fact that there are several standalone synths so plugins are not so necessary. Of course there are the Linux audio pages and they are good for us, but the kids living elsewhere although I think an slight interest is there, especially with all the inherent problems of Windows Vista.
Why bother with the kids? To get a critical mass so the driver situation gets improved, that are my selfish motives.
I am about to create some DSSI Synths. I wanted to share some pd patches which act and sound very well as multipurpose synths (as the opposite as very specialized patches which are good only for 1 song) but find it hard to 'distribute' because they depend on some externals which might be not available, to complicate for instant gratification. So I prefer now a self contained format. More soon here or on LAU list...
Cheers, Malte -- Malte Steiner media art + development -www.block4.com-
