Hallo!
- jamin is cool and powerful software too, but it follows the wrong
strategy: you can only use it in real-time, since it is a jack-plugin. having to render in realtime is a pain and dangerous in many situations
Yeah that's true - would be nice to do that offline ... But this is also how it works in studios, you have your mastering-hardware and bounce it in rt (I am not such a studio expert, but at least in the studios I was it was done like this). However, this should be no excuse ...
(all drop-outs are in the resulting file). OTOH, LADSPA plugins don't support customized guis, AFAIK, therefor there is no option to do something like jamin as a LADSPA plugin. IMHO, most LADSPA plugins might be good scientific applications, but definitely not for everyday studio work (no visual feedback, strange scales of parameters).
Yes, that's the second problem. It took me quite some time to find some good sounding plugins (and some I had to fix) - but they exist. Better visual feedback would be great too - maybe the upcoming LV2 can solve this ...
Okay, that's maybe a little bit OT now ;) LG Georg