Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crackling on dssi-fluidsynth

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On Tuesday 19 Oct 2004 10:11, James Stone wrote:
> I have tried using the dssi example host. It works
> absolutely fine

Damn!

> I have tried again, and I do not even
> need to load a second soundfont, just load up two instances of the
> fluidsynth plugin, and the first soundfont becomes distorted.

Does it make any difference what the soundfont is?  (What is the 
soundfont?)

> have also noticed that the Id for the plugins is the same. Not sure
> if this should happen?

Do you mean the "Id: 2182" printed in the plugin dialog below the 
plugin selection combo?  Yes, that's intended to identify the type of 
plugin, it's not supposed to vary between instances.

Actually (a digression here) the ID is almost totally useless.  In 
LADSPA, which is where these come from, the IDs were intended to be 
globally unique (i.e. 2182 is known to refer to fluidsynth-dssi and 
no other plugin).  But there's no working central repository for IDs, 
and no way to guarantee uniqueness if you have (for example) a plugin 
that wraps an unpredictable number of other plugins, like my own 
dssi-vst wrapper, so in practice you can't actually guarantee they 
are unique, and the point is lost.  We probably shouldn't even bother 
displaying them.


Chris