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Re: [Om-synth] Exporting synths?
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Ross Clement |
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Re: [Om-synth] Exporting synths? |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:04:30 +0000 |
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 13:08 -0500, Dave Robillard wrote:
> It wouldn't be any different from the user perspective. The Om engine
> itself is really not that complicated of a thing. If you take out all
> the Event stuff (ie OSC control), it's _really_ not that complicated of
> a thing.
>
> It would be a very cool thing to have a full blown modular inside apps
> (like Ardour) though - much better than just being able to create static
> plugins.
>
> That said, there are advantages to actually creating plugins - namely
> performance. If it were possible anyway:
I agree that it would be a very cool thing to have a full modular synth
as a plugin to Ardour etc. However, I think there would also be an
audience for non-modular plugins as well. While I like the modular stuff
myself, I don't think anyone would claim that it's for everybody.
> Well, unfortunately there's no standard way of getting at the source
> code of a plugin. Building a plugin from an Om patch given the source
> code of all the plugins used would be possible, but without that you
> don't really have anything to work with.
Lars mentioned (+/- delta) this as well. I'm not sure that it would be
necessary to access the source code for the plugin. I was thinking that
since the format of an object code library file (.so etc) is open and
not all *that* complicated, that it would be possible to read the
library files themselves, extract the used subroutines, and package them
up again into another library package containing the "new" plugin.
I was thinking also that there might be some shortcuts using gcc, e.g.
it's possible to compile a static executable for a program, which
packages up library routines into a binary.
> I'm all for some kind of standard LADPSA plugin package organization
> (including a sane naming scheme and source access), but the chances of
> it happening are basically zero at this point.
Cheers,
Ross-c
- [Om-synth] Exporting synths?, Ross Clement, 2006/02/10
- Re: [Om-synth] Exporting synths?, Dave Robillard, 2006/02/10
- Re: [Om-synth] Exporting synths?, Ross Clement, 2006/02/11
- Re: [Om-synth] Exporting synths?, Dave Robillard, 2006/02/11
- Re: [Om-synth] Exporting synths?, Ross Clement, 2006/02/12
- Re: [Om-synth] Exporting synths?, Lars Luthman, 2006/02/12
- Re: [Om-synth] Exporting synths?, Dave Robillard, 2006/02/12
- Re: [Om-synth] Exporting synths?,
Ross Clement <=
- Re: [Om-synth] Exporting synths?, Dave Robillard, 2006/02/12