LADSPA Plugin Developers' Documentation

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1. Introduction

• 1.1 Terminology
• 1.2 The Plugin Lifecycle

2. The LADSPA Plugin Format

• 2.1 Finding and providing LADSPA_Descriptors
• 2.2 The descriptor's data
• 2.3 The descriptor's implementation

3. Writing LADSPA Plugins

• 3.1 Initial Organization
• 3.2 Writing the plugin handle structure
• 3.3 Writing ladspa_descriptor
• 3.4 Writing the virtual functions.
• 3.5 Building LADSPA plugins

4. Writing LADSPA Hosts

• 4.1 General Considerations
• 4.2 Finding which plugins are available.
• 4.3 Loading and using a plugin