I've pasted my reply from the thread "easy effects", and I also started
a page on plugin~/LADSPA in the FLOSS Manual (*very* rough, needs a lot
of expansion!):
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/PureData/UsingLADSPAplugins
> [plugin~] can be tricky or just a plain pain the wazoo to use simply because
it can crash when given the wrong creation arguments, such as the name of a
plugin that doesn't exist on your computer. Of course, a help patch which crashed
on anybody's computer should be a high priority to fix, but maybe not everybody
around here seems to agree with that ;-) I posted about this problem in 2005 and
still it hasn't really been dealt with.
does anyone happen to know what exactly IN the patch is making pd crash?
has anyone tried fixing it by editing the help patch as a text file?
>
> [plugin~] requires the path to your LADSPA directory to be set as the LADSPA_PATH in the environment. Look
up "setting environmental variables" plus either "bash" or "shell" on Google to
see how this is done if you don't know how.
is this done instead of creating a path to the LADSPA plugs dir in pd?
or does it have to be done in addition to a pd path?
>
> If you use the terminal command "listplugins",
you should point out in the FOSS manual that one needs to have the
ladspa-sdk installed to use this command
you should see a list of the LADSPA plugins on your system. You must use the exact name
listed there, for example, if "listplugins" gives you:
>
> /usr/local/lib/ladspa/noise.so:
> White Noise Source (1050/noise_white)
>
> then you would use [plugin~ noise_white]. (Somebody correct me if this is
wrong, I am not on a Linux system where I can check this for the next several
days...)
interesting I'll try this...
>
> Then, you need to send the proper control parameter number, and NOT the control
parameter name. For example, if sending the message "info" to the plugin lists the
following to your Pd window via [print]:
>
> Loaded from library "/usr/lib/ladspa/mvclpf24.so".
> Control input(s):
> #1 "Input gain (dB)"
> #2 "Frequency"
> #3 "Exp FM gain"
> #4 "Resonance"
> #5 "Resonance gain"
> #6 "Filter poles"
> #7 "Output gain (dB)"
> Control output(s):
> Audio input(s):
> #1 "Input"
> #2 "Frequency"
> #3 "Exp FM"
> #4 "Resonance"
> Audio output(s):
> #1 "Output"
>
> Then you would have to make a message "1 $1" to send a variable to control
the input gain from a number box or slider.
>
> More info on LADSPAs in general:
>
> http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2001/02/02/ladspa.html
>
> If somebody would like to make a chapter on this in the Pd FLOSS Manual, I would jump for joy. I just haven't had the time to do it myself. Feel free to copy paste from this email and make some screenshots! ;-)
>
> You can also search for "plugin~" in the list archives and find much discussion on this. The two
threads I started were called "plugin~ ladspa" and "setting plugin~ control inputs" in about
2005, when I was trying to figure this all out.
ok I'll take another look...thanks Derek! :)
now, anyone know if [vst~] has been compiled on Linux?
>
> Best!
> Derek
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