Re: Filing of User Presets
Re: Filing of User Presets
- Subject: Re: Filing of User Presets
- From: Marc Poirier <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 00:45:13 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Robert Grant wrote:
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I don't think it needs to be has difficult as it sounds in your
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example. Apps would have to support an Import/Export capability for
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presets but this is nothing more than loading or dumping a plist, about
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10 lines of code. And if we have a standard then I can easily see a
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framework being provided that facilitates the whole thing.
Okay, that doesn't sound so bad, if there is software to do the
merging/extraction.
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In the UI I think it could work in a host very much like IEs favorites.
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You could have a button on an AU that meant "Add to presets" and it
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would snapshot the class info,
Ooo, but now you're losing me, I *HATE* the IE favourites management thing
(you are talking about the Windows version, right?).
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Urs Heckmann wrote:
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No no no, I never meant to restrict AUs that way ;-)
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IMHO it should be enough to offer convert/import from Xternal to AU,
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'cause who wants to go back, he?
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Sure, it's an easy thing to write your own importer for fxp/fxb, but it
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would be cool to have an consistent (that word again :-) API for it
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which could be managed by the host (you see, I wanna delegate...).
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Sth. like:
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So every plug that thinks has a VST (or MAS or whatsoever) counterpart
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can report to host it likes to have an import button next to preset
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loader. - Would save us plugsperts a lot of work...
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were suggesting that some AUs
should scrap the dictionary format altogether and use fxp/fxb format for
both AU and VST versions. Yeah, what you suggest sounds like a fine thing
for hosts to add, sorry for the misunderstanding...
Marc
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