Re: [Audacity-quality] GUI dialogs for Hard Limiter & SC4

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

> From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> 
> Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:33:49 -0700
> Subject: [Audacity-quality] GUI dialogs for Hard Limiter & SC4
> IIRC, we agreed a while ago to stop shipping both of those, in favor of 
> the comprehensive LADSPA zip file (because both are included there). But 
> I just did a fresh install, and they're there.

Unless I missed the conversation, I don't believe we agreed to
stop shipping those two. 

Both SC4 and Hard Limiter remain somewhat useful (IMO) in the 
absence of a "simple" non-distorting compressor or a better 
limiter.


> So, actually, Peter, the question should be moot. But iirc:
> 
> * We use the same dialog width for all LADSPA plugins.

And we use the same height, so there is wasted height if there 
are only two or three sliders. 

The "wasted height" is sometimes complained about. 

 
> * Those are not in our code base, so we use whatever text the plugin 
> says it wants to display. In other words, author attribution is not 
> under our control for LADSPA (or VST), only for our own plugins.

If you recall, Peter, we discussed your same point back in June:   
https://sourceforge.net/p/audacity/mailman/message/31116978/ .



Gale

> On 3/23/2014 8:49 AM, Peter Sampson wrote:
> > For both of the effects "Hard Limiter" and "SC4" the width of the
> > GUI dialogs seems to me to be unnecessarily wide, inconsistently
> > so when compared to all other shipped effects in Audacity.
> >
> > Also both of these effects still carry author attribution - and I thought
> > that policy was for such attribution to be removed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Peter.