Re: [LMMS-devel] ENV/LFO idea...

[Tobias D. <tob...@gm...>]

2014-03-31 12:29 GMT+02:00 Raine M. Ekman <ra...@ik...>:
> I was under the impression that the instrument fx chains work per note
> already?

No, all sounds rendered for all notes get mixed into the instrument's
AudioPort. Later FX processing is done *once* for the AudioPort
buffer.

> I don't entirely buy the idea of a bunch of "special" plugins, I'd
> rather like to see envelopes, LFOs and frequency data that could
> control any plugin knob. So instead of providing an
> envelope-controlled amp plugin, there would be a selection of
> envelopes you could add to the gain knob of any amp. Or the delay knob
> of a flanger...

The problem here is sample-exactness as well as performance. The
current ENV/LFO functions are not very generic but specific and fast
(they even have different code paths for different ENV/LFO settings).
I'd not give that up. The new note FX approach could both provide more
flexibility and the performance we have already.

Toby