Information About

Ladspa




There are many other audio plugin standards, in fact most modern software synthesisers and sound editors will have their own and support for more common standards. Notable proprietary standards are DirectX and Steinberg s Cubase Virtual Studio Technology .

LADSPA is unusual in that it attempts to provide only the ''Least Common Denominator'' of other standards. This means that its scope is restricted, but plugins written using it are easy to embed automatically in other software. The standard has changed very little with time so compatibility problems are rare.

LADSPA exists primarily as a header file written in the C Programming Language . There have been moves recently to introduce LADSPA onto software platforms other than Linux .

When it comes to emulating instruments (virtual instruments akin to VSTi ), LADSPA does not suffice. Instead an extension called #REDIRECT DSSI is used for instruments. DSSI uses LADSPA for event transport and is thus fully LADSPA compliant.


EXTERNAL LINKS

  • http://www.ladspa.org/

  • http://plugin.org.uk/