On 05/04/11 18:52, Dominic Sacré wrote:
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Personally, I think yoshimi sits in that category.
That's not quite the same thing though. Whether or not Yoshimi should
be a DSSI/LV2/... plugin is a matter of preference, just like the
whole "host with plugins" versus "lots of applications connected
through JACK" debate. Personally I'd find a Yoshimi plugin very
useful, but there are probably more worthwhile things to work on.
What Lars suggested is more like breaking ZynAddSubFX into little
pieces, each piece being a separate LV2 plugin. The result would bear
little resemblance to Yoshimi, except that, at least in theory, you
could combine those plugins to create the same sounds you could also
achieve with Zyn/Yoshimi. But it really is a very different use case,
and certainly a set of LV2 plugins would never be able to replace
Yoshimi. So yes, Yoshimi is outstanding at what it does, but this is
more about things Yoshimi does not (and maybe should not) do.