Dan Wilcox wrote:
and I want to make sure the text is a) true and b) easily understood
by a n00b
This is where I think things should always go ... to the wiki or the
Floss manual! If a solution is found, pleasepleaseplease post it to a
standard place and then *everyone* can benefit and we don't get the
same questions every 6 months.
that's exactly what I'm trying to do here :)
and given that most, if not all, Linux audio apps can host a
LADSPA/DSSI/LV2 plugin circa 2010 I see no reason why Pd shouldn't also
be able to host one without 1337 secret handshakes, compiling src,
chasing down deps, and other distractions to someone wanting to simply
and easily host a plugin to do some audio processing
mind you these 'l337 handshake' solutions are sometimes necessary when
solving a Linux audio problem but should not be a 0th order approach to
trying to use Pd in a production environment
also, keep in mind I'm coming at Pd from 10 years of Max/MSP usage where
the community is much less anarchic and doesn't share the political
framework of being a FOSS app - which makes things less flexible at
times but also imposes a certain standard, from the top down, on how
things should work
Not everyone knows to search the mailing list. This is why I suggested
a few weeks ago that we should look into building out "knowledge" base
in a more centralized way because there are too many disparate
elements ... I think newbies don't know where to look.
given the variety of conflicting info I've been given over the past week
about how the [plugin~] object 'should work (or why it doesn't) I'd
have to say that even the 'experts' don't know where to look sometimes
it should NOT take anyone (even a Pd n00b) the better part of a week to
figure out
a) why sending [info] to a [plugin~] won't always give her the correct
info using what they believe to be the standard Pd [print] external
and
b) that using [<symbol:name> being the name of the port] in [plugin~]
doesn't work globally for all LADSPA plugs hosted by [plugin~] and that
<symbol:#n_of_ctrl_port> does - at least in the ones I've tested so far
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