It is good (tm) to define broad standards that encompass a variety of situations. But usually broad means also thin, which results in it being less helpful for each specific situation it pretends to be applied to.
And no matter how broad you try to make it, I bet someone comes up with a feature that is absolutely essential for his/her purposes that the standard should cover but fails to. How broad do we want it? Wouldn't it be a good idea to survey what people are doing with LADSPA and what are they missing in it? Personally, I don't need any more modular synths, thanks. I miss the most in LADSPA: - Sensible GUIs. - Tempo awareness. Cheers, Luis