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DISTRHO / Ildaeil

mini-plugin host as plugin
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Question: why Ildaeil instead of Carla? #20

Closed SanderVocke closed 10 months ago

SanderVocke commented 10 months ago

I hope this is a suitable place for me to ask a question. I stumbled upon this project in the KXStudio news page. I was intrigued right away because of the stated goal: providing a minimal wrapper plugin to host others in.

It just so happens that in my project ShoopDaLoop, I had been using Carla in this way: ShoopDaLoop has a minimal LV2 host implementation that can only load Carla via LV2, with the idea that any other plugins can then be loaded in Carla from there. This sounds like exactly what Ildaeil is meant for, so I might consider switching.

After reading the front page a bit, I am wondering though: what does Idaeil offer compared to Carla itself? Carla can already be loaded as a plugin in various formats to wrap other plugins, so why would you need a(-nother) wrapper around it?

Cheers!

falkTX commented 10 months ago

This should be a discussion item then, let me convert it...