The future of audio plugins ? Hopefully none... the whole concept of loading some binary blobs into some host and expecting scalable reliable realtime performance is absurd to begin with. Oh well, I suppose it could be worse. > Plugins that network themselves together, sharing audio analysis, > sharing data, taking decisions together on how to apply themselves as > a group to an audio track, to stems, to a whole session. Would that not be like an instrument playing itself? > Is there any standard protocol currently in the works that would > enable plugins of various companies, of various projects, to be able > to exchange data ? > The only existing one with a complete ontology that I know of is LV2. You can network LV2 plugins already: e.g. Ingen provides for message ports, CV ports as well as control-port networks (apart from usual audio/midi) in a modular fashion. ciao, robin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
