[LV2] LV2 Question

[Harry van Haaren]

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Warren Koontz <profwub at gmail.com> wrote:

> Harry,
>
> Thanks for the quick response. Or should I say "dank U wel"?
>
Dank je wel, I'm dutch indeed. Living in Ireland though

>
> The Multiverb object is not the plug-in itself, but an object used within
> the plug-in. This object includes delay lines which need to be re-set for
> each activate/run(one or more times)/deactivate cycle. So instantiate
> instantiates the plug-in, activate instantiates and initializes the
> Multiverb object (with fresh delay lines), run does the processing (saving
> delay line states between successive runs), deactivate deletes the
> Multiverb object (setting the state for a subsequent cycle) and cleanup
> deletes the plug-in.
>

Yes you're on the right track.  Lots of plugins have "internal classes" for
lack of a better way of explaining it.
An example I'm familiar with is Masha, which includes two instances of a
DSP class:
https://github.com/harryhaaren/openAV-ArtyFX/blob/master/masha/dsp/masha.cxx#L84

Try to do as little work as possible in activate() / deactivate(). If work
can be pushed to instantiate(), it should be:
In this case, concider having a "reset()" method on the Multiverb class,
and call that on activate(), instead of deleting the Multiverb object in
deallocate(), and creating a new one in activate().

Deleting / allocating a Multiverb object in activate() / deactivate()
should be avoided at all costs: it is *not* a real-time safe operation, and
can be avoided.

I agree that static variables are undesirable (although they served a
> purpose in the pre C++ days). I just thought it might be weird to give the
> host application access to the Multiverb object.
>
The host doesn't actually have access to the Multiverb object: it knows the
plugin handle*, but nothing particular about it. The host won't interact
with the plugin instance except for the LV2 specified callback functions.


> mvg,
>
> Warren
>

Cheers, -Harry
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