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@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +This is a port of the MDA VST plugins to LV2. + +MDA plugins are originally by Paul Kellett and were released under the GPL +v2 or later, or the MIT license. Thanks, Paul! + +This port is by Dave Robillard, and is released under the GPL v2. +See COPYING file for more information. + +To port these plugins to LV2, I wrote the missing code blindly in order to +make things compile and work as an LV2 plugin. From the previous names I +assume these missing pieces were part of the VST SDK, but I have never seen, +or heard about, anything related to the VST SDK whatsoever, at any time, ever. + +I have named this implemented wrapper "LVZ" (for LV0). +It may be useful for porting other GPL VST plugins to native LV2. + +This code is 100% Free Software under the GNU General Public License, +verion 2 or later. + +---- + +Original release announcement: + +This archive contains the source code for the mda freeware VST +plug-ins, with the least restrictive licensing I could find. + +Projects are provided for Visual C++ 5, Visual C++ 8, and XCode 2. +You will need a copy of the VST 2.4 SDK to compile the plug-ins, +unless you are only interested in the AU versions (kindly ported +by Sophia Poirier). Code for "mda SpecMeter" is included but does +not compile with any recent version of VSTGUI. The GUIs for +"mda Piano" and "mda ePiano" are not included for the same reason, +and also because nobody really liked them. + +This code is definitely not an example of how to write plug-ins! +It's obvious that I didn't know much C++ when I started, and some +of the optimizations might have worked on a 486 processor but are +not relevant today. The code is very raw with no niceties like +parameter de-zipping, but maybe you'll find some useful stuff in +there. Hopefully someone will feel like tidying everything up and +put the code in a more generic format that can be wrapped into any +current or future plug-in format. + +Paul Kellett (paul.kellett@mda-vst.com), June 2008 + |