Subject: Re: [LAU] Ideas for LV2

From: Ken Restivo <ken@...> · Date: Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 6:02 pm

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 02:09:58PM +0200, Georg Holzmann wrote:

quoted text> Hallo!

>

> > Actually, the host wouldn't have to deal with it at all (though it would

> > probably be nicer to have it in the host than in every plugin that

> > needed it). My ancient oscilloscope DSSI plugin uses shared memory

> > between the plugin and GUI, and the host has no idea about it.

>

> OK thanks, that's nice ... but then every plugin, which does not use

> this technique, has to be rewritten for non-GTK hosts ...

>

> So I have a wish ;) :

> It would be nice to have a class for that in the lv2-c++-tools package,

> so that a plugin developer can just inherit this class and everything

> else is done automatically !

> 
I dunno. I'm pretty suspicious of toolkits and API's that try to do "everything" automatically.
LV2 seems pretty well-defined to me so far. I'd hope it doesn't try to do "everything".
I used an LV2 synth for a year (the old LV2 AZR3 in Elven host), live, in production use, with excellent results, so from my standpoint it seems very promising.
-ken

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