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DISTRHO / Cardinal

Virtual modular synthesizer plugin
https://cardinal.kx.studio/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Play project when hitting space #512

Open iamdannywyatt opened 1 year ago

iamdannywyatt commented 1 year ago

In Logic, at least, if Cardinal is upfront, when I hit Space, Logic doesn't start, which is a bit annoying, because I then have to click outside Cardinal to make it start. It's just extra clicks that could be avoided if SPACE would automatically play the project like any other plugin

dromer commented 1 year ago

But how would you then be able to type a space in any of the text input boxes? In general it is unwanted that the DAW responds to such keys when focus is put on the plugin. It would be mighty annoying if the DAW starts playing/stopping/playing when you are just typing some text into the plugin.

iamdannywyatt commented 1 year ago

But how would you then be able to type a space in any of the text input boxes? In general it is unwanted that the DAW responds to such keys when focus is put on the plugin. It would be mighty annoying if the DAW starts playing/stopping/playing when you are just typing some text into the plugin.

The plugin would know when text fields were active. I just tried with both stock plugins and Valhalla SuperMassive on fields where I can double click to input a number and using space didn't start the project.

falkTX commented 1 year ago

This could in theory work correctly in VST, CLAP or LV2, but cant work via AU because of the way it is set up at the moment.

iamdannywyatt commented 1 year ago

I'm sure that's a more technical aspect that I wouldn't be able to understand, since I'm just a user and coding isn't my thing. When you say "at the moment" you mean it could potentially be implemented at all?

falkTX commented 1 year ago

Correct. Right now the AU is a hack on getting JUCE to do the heavy lifting for us, and we just place the Cardinal UI on top of the JUCE UI (that is empty). The proper way to go about it is to finish the implementation of AU directly on the plugin framework in use by Cardinal. But interest is very low compared to other formats as it is macOS specific, and besides GarageBand and Logic Pro, pretty much all DAWs support at least one of the other formats.