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Hi Charlie,
I think it would be a Good Thing if there were special provisions in VST2 for
modular (as opposed to hardwired) plugins, such as Generator (VST2 announced
for this summer), Csound (Michael Gogins just announced he is going to
implement the VST2 interface in a new shared library version of Csound based
on Paul Barton-Davis' Quasimodo kernel), SuperCollider (James McCartney
envisages making it a "very fat" VST2 plugin), or Buzz (there is talk about
VST2), which will need an additional "instrument file" to know what processing
they should perform.
Concretely it would be nice if, at first plugin instantiation in a document,
the host (to avoid platform-specific code in the plugin, which is a paramount
prerequisite for Csound people, and quite a relief for all others) could query
the plugin for its "instrument files" extensions (.ins and .ens for Generator,
.orc for Csound, .sc I think for SuperCollider, "hardwired" plugins just won't
implement the extension accessor method which will preserve backward
compatibility), and then launch an accordingly filtered Open dialog allowing
the user to pick his/her "instrument file". Of course the host's document
remembers the path and passes it automatically to the plugin on re-opening.
Do you have or would you consider implementing such a mechanism in VST2 (or
2.01 :-) ? I must admit I haven't checked whether there wasn't already such a
thing in the VST1 spec, which would make this whole post quite useless.
BTW, when can we expect the eagerly awaited vst2 sdk ? :-)
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Greetings,
Michel
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