falkTX wrote:I think you misunderstood.
Maybe I did, maybe not so much. I didn't know it, but I suspected it. I wonder (but don't really wanna know) why it was considered a bug and why it had to be fixed. What was wrong with the old implementation? What was bad that had to be improved? Was that really an improvement? Maybe it was, but I wouldn't be surprised in the least if it wasn't. A lot of things sold as improvements in this day and age do not look like improvements to me at all.
Anyway, I'm just chatting. Thank you for your kind attention.
falkTX wrote:In the latest version [of Carla] you'll be able to simply drag&drop *.dll files and it will load the VST plugin inside.
That is great news indeed, but... will Carla establish the output connections automatically, like dssi-vst did? I just remembered I can use carla-single, but then I have to switch to some patchbay application and connect the (usually two) outputs manually. Sounds like nothing, but sometimes I audition dozens of plugins in one sitting, to decide what's worth keeping. Doing all the connections manually is very tiresome. I asked the aj-snapshot developer to allow wildcards or regular expressions, and he thought it was a bad idea.
With dssi-vst and jack_keyboard running, I just had to hit Enter on the plugin and switch to the keyboard and I had everything in my hands: Delete would cause jack_keyboard to find the new plugin and make a MIDI connection to it instantaneously. Then letter keys would play notes, and / and * would switch programs/banks. It was a perfect arrangement for quick and dirty auditions. I would go through dozens of plugins in no time.
Carla does the job, it does many jobs and that's great, but it is terribly mouse oriented. For starters, I will have to click and drag the plugin into Carla. Then I suppose I will have to click a tab (to view the Patchbay), then click and drag output connections, perhaps even the keyboard connection, and I will have to use the mouse to play the keyboard (careful not to let the mouse pointer touch anything else in the patchbay - that disables the keyboard!), and I will have to click some drop-down box (in another tab!!!) to select the programs. It's not the end of the world, but it's several steps back from what I used to have. Not too different from a DAW, but I hate auditioning on a DAW. DAWs are terrible for auditioning, for that very same reason.
I'm sorry if I sound rude or ungrateful, I'm just really sharing a view of how computers can or should work. They should rid us of all that is tedious and/or repetitive. Windows/Mac people love the mouse, but they're usually slow learners, and it's the reason why the whole point-and-click-maybe-also-drag paradigm is so popular, because it's easy to learn. It's so called "intuitive." But whenever that kind of conversation happens, people rarely ever go one step further and realize that this paradigm is not really convenient past the initial learning stage. Pointing and clicking and dragging becomes a repetitive strain. Blunt and honest, it's dumb. The keyboard is underused, even in Linux. How would you like to drive a car with a mouse? You'd soon notice how slow your reactions would become and how dangerous it would be.
The keyboard rules. Image editing is the only task it can't do alone 10 times better than the mouse.
It's my opinion. Take or leave it, but thanks for reading.
ciao from Naples, Italy