On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:47:52PM -0700, Josh Steiner wrote:
the only other hosts i use dont give you this nice raw output, so i dont know. but this is a general issues with vst's i think, for instance, in flstudio when i open up a song it has remembered all the positions of all the sliders/nobs of all vst's im using, plus samples loaded and such. is there some split in vst between state and performance data?
afaik, all vst params are floats (or midi-notes & CC). the .fxp/.fxb preset-file format allows for storage of arbitrary 'chunk's of binary data that can be whatever the plugin designer wants - but i dont think you can do anything with this from any host other than saving/loading. ultimately the VST standard needs to be scrapped, or at least given OSC support on equal footing as MIDI, and make the file format less of a joke..
anyways if phatmatik is your main concern, why not make an infinitely better replacement for it? this patch will check for beat-timing metadata, if it exists load it, if not scan it..so you dont hve to wait for bonk~ to run each time..(but a non-realtime switch~ option in subpatches would definitely be cool..if anyone is up for a real challenge :)