On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 18:55 +0100, Dan MacDonald wrote: > Hi LS devs! > > I'm sure some of you already know me off the LAU/LAD lists as I've > been the main tester of MIDI in Ardour 3 and I've FINALLY got round to > concentrating on using LS under A3! Aren't you lucky? :D > > I'm addressing the list as I'm hoping we can make some small > adjustments to the LS LV2 plugin and/or libgig and maybe LS itself > which will make it much easier (read: possible) to transfer Ardour 3 > or qtractor sessions that use the LS LV2 plugin between machines/users > because at the moment the engine just gives a "sorry can't find the > instrument file" type of error if the instrument isn't located at > precisely the original path. > > I don't know if the LV2 spec or any of its extensions cater for this > yet but if the instrument file isn't found in the original path then I > would like to see LS looking for the files in the same folder as the > A3 or qtractor session/project file, which is where I would like to > store them most of the time- certainly when collaborating on a > project. Paul tells me A3 wouldn't have any probs with such files > being stored within an A3 session directory. Ideally, if LS fails to > find an instrument in neither the original path nor in the same folder > as the current session/project file then it would display a dialogue > prompting you for the path to the missing file. > > Big thanks to all the LS devs and contributors for bringing us such a > powerful sampler and the first really useful, poweful LV2 plugin!
This is the purpose of the LV2 "files" extension. Specific support in plugins like LS as described here isn't the way to go for many reasons. It is the host's responsibility to manage files referred to by plugin state in the way most appropriate for that host. -dr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Linuxsampler-devel mailing list Linuxsampler-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel
