fladd
January 10, 2014, 11:35pm
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it’s a simple standard (namely the “core” is nothing more than LADSPA) but extensible by the so called “extensions”.
the problem is that extensions are far to be perfect and sometimes they get rewritten over time to support more features thus their numbers is growing; sometimes plugin developers does not support the lv2 core provided extensions and support “third party” ones: think the new “external ui” extension that makes the UBER MEGA LV2 uis as stated and sold everywhere practically a mimic of the DSSI standard… http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/ns/lv2ext/external-ui
It’s a standard so extensible and free that people have copied the old method because it was better. Don’t say LV2 uis are better than DSSI ones, technically speaking the ones that makes use of the “external ui” are exactly the same thing, same problems same behaviour.
I see…and there is no guideline, or suggestion of what a modern host is supposed to support? In doubt, I would just support whatever the others support (take for instance Ardour as a guideline).