Re: The Plugin Settings Approach.
Re: The Plugin Settings Approach.
- Subject: Re: The Plugin Settings Approach.
- From: Tim Roberts <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:27:11 -0600
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 10:40 PM, coreaudio-api-
email@hidden wrote:
Message: 9
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:50:59 -0800
From: Glenn Olander <email@hidden>
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: The Plugin Settings Approach.
I'd have to agree with Marc. This sounds like a design an engineer
would be happy with, but not a musician. Imagine trying to gather
up all the files you used in a project for backup or to carry
to another studio.
I believe there are two fundamentally different ways that patches
are archived:
1) as a faithful record of the settings used in a particular project
2) as a library from which patches may be retrieved for use in future
projects.
Solving #1 with a chunk (sorry for the VST terminology) in the song
file is a fine solution.
What _is_ missing, from VST (and perhaps AU) is a good solution to
the second problem. Ideally you should be able to easily add a patch
to the library and efficiently browse it from any host,
preferably with one-mouse click loading a single patch for auditioning.
I don't have much to offer on the technical end of things as I'm just
beginning with programming in general.
I am a daily user of DAWs,(Primarily ProTools). I'm currently
considering Logic for many reasons.
One of the most difficult processes is PlugIn management.
I normally set things up so that PlugIn settings are stored in the
Session Folder. That way, if the project moves
to another machine, Then all Plugin Settings travel with the project.
Additionally my Root Settings Library
doesn't get populated with settings that I won't need again.
The problem really comes when I have a Project with numerous settings
that I'd like to add to my Root Settings Library.
It would be nice if there was a utility that would scan a Directory and
SubDirectories for PlugIn Settings Folders.
It could then offer the user to Shift-Click to add Settings or Add All
to the Root Settings Library.
Perhaps there could be an option to save all Settings to the Session
PlugIn Settings and to the Root Settings.
There could even be a Menu Item that would "Export Plug In Settings on
Selected Channels to Root settings" from within
the Applications Edit or Mix window.
I know you guys understand the problems to solve so I hope this isn't
just noise.
Tim Roberts
Waterknot Music
Nashville, TN
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