On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 09:59 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 10:58:17AM +0200, Tim Blechmann wrote: > > > > Where anyone can publish anything of course the user needs to do a fair > > > bit of work filtering the worthwhile from the useless. > > > > replace 'useless' by 'broken' ... if you use have an unstable filter in > > your fx chain, you could either destroy your speakers or even worse: > > your ears. > > or someone else's speakers or ears. > > And having to do 'a fair bit of work' separating the crap from the > usable isn't going to improve a potential user's workflow either, > nor his first impression of what Linux Audio has to offer. > > It's not just filters oscillating. I've seen delay lines blow > up, compressors going to infinite gain, and all sorts of things > producing loud bangs when connected, activated or coonfigured. > And those are just the potentially destructive 'features', we > are not even discussing basic processing quality. > > Yet all this stuff gets distributed, listed on helpful websites > (look ! hundreds of plugins !), and nobody feels the need to > weed out the crap. Wonder why some people don't take Linux > Audio seriously ? As already replied earlier, meta-packages, resp. packages that include several effects are a PITA for this kind of software. Each effect should get it's own package. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
