[Ardour-Users] lv2 and midi control

michael noble looplog at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 17:37:45 PST 2009


On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:04 PM, michael noble <looplog at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Nedko Arnaudov <nedko at arnaudov.name>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> michael noble <looplog at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > hi all,
> >> >
> >> > I posted on the ardour.org forums but no response so far. It appears
> >> > that
> >> > midi control of lv2 plugins with external GUI is not possible - the
> >> > ctrl-middle-click shortcut on knobs not functioning. Can someone
> verify
> >> > this
> >> > for me? If this is the case, is there a way to override this behavior?
> >>
> >> Does this shortcut works on knobs of VST and AU plugins?
> >>
>
> they do not work. Ardour does not own or control the windows that they
> create (this includes LV2 ext GUI) and so there is no reasonably sane
> way to interpose between the user's input devices and the GUIs in
> order to initiate MIDI binding, etc.
>


ok, thanks for the clarification. I was worried this would be the case. Is
it worth considering perhaps an approach in the future similar to the way
audiomulch handles this - a toggle to switch between native ardour and
external GUI for plugins that need it. Or even a runtime switch for ardour
that would allow loading lv2s sans external GUIs? Would this even be
possible (disregarding the eternal issue of time constraints and so on)?

-m
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