windell

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by windell 13d ago
Interesting! Thank you for the explanation. I wonder what file permission issues we might face trying to write adjacent to the plugin file. I'll see what Surge does.
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by windell 16d ago
Thank for the excellent suggestions! I'll definitely take a look. Perhaps the key difference is that Decent Sampler allows you to create a custom GUI for your sample library. Floe does not, it's a standard, complete set of paramet
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by windell 16d ago
Interesting, I'll take a look at the Surge source, they're a clever bunch. If you have a moment - I'd like to understand this use-case more. What do you mean multi room studio? Does a per-user installation help, vs an all-use
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by windell 17d ago
It can run from any path so long as your plugin host or DAW is happy to load it from there (the plugin APIs define standard folders plugins should be installed to, but lots of host allow other paths). Once running it will try to create some
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by windell 17d ago
Not quite as generic as that. I suppose there's 2 types of users at the moment. Musicians who just want load up virtual instruments (whether that's 'real' instrument, or synthesised-based), play them, but then also use F
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by windell 17d ago
Since early 2026 it's mixed AI and handwritten. Before that it was mostly written by hand. Quite a lot of the code goes back to 2018 even. Typically, I do back and forth with Claude Code agents on new features and bug fixes, reading an
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22 points by windell 17d ago|16 comments