Bug#736131: Feature: in calfjackhost, add "bypass" buttons, and optionally input and output gain knobs

[Zenaan Harkness]

Package: calf-plugins
Version: 0.0.19+git20131202-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,
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I am setting up a nice jackd based system, and calfjackhost rocks!

However, I find myself clicking Edit button repeatedly, to open and later to close the various
plugin edit windows, simply to enable and disable the "Bypass" for each plugin.

It would be great to have these "Bypass" buttons mirrored in the Calf JACK Host :)

Also, as a nice additional option, input and output gain knobs would be something I'd most
likely enable, if they were available :) :)

Also, some specific plugins may have one extra function (besides bypass, in and out gain)
which is a particularly toggle-able function which might be useful to be able to enable in the
Calf JACK Host, e.g.:
The Bass Enhancer plugin has a "Listen" function - I run the bass enhancer in parallel with
the 5-band Equalizer (not in series), and usually "Listen" is enabled, but for some tracks I
like to disable the "List" function of the Bass Enhancer (given that I run it in parallel with
eq5).

Finally, the Multiband (4-band) Compressor, has 4 Bypass buttons, one for each band. It would
of course make sense for these to all be avilable in the Calf JACK Host.

In summary: Calf JACK Host provides a great opportunity for a visually tight (economic of
screen realestate) yet feature/plugin-packed rack.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-rt-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages calf-plugins depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                       2.10.0-2
ii  libc6                             2.17-97
ii  libcairo2                         1.12.16-2
ii  libexpat1                         2.1.0-4
ii  libfftw3-single3                  3.3.3-7
ii  libfluidsynth1                    1.1.6-2
ii  libfontconfig1                    2.11.0-2
ii  libfreetype6                      2.5.2-1
ii  libgcc1                           1:4.8.2-14
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                2.28.2-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                      2.36.4-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0                       2.24.22-1
ii  libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.116]  1.9.9.5+20130622git7de15e7a-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                    1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0               1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0                 1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libstdc++6                        4.8.2-14

Versions of packages calf-plugins recommends:
ii  gtk2-engines-pixbuf  2.24.22-1

Versions of packages calf-plugins suggests:
ii  ladish  1+dfsg0-4

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