[LAD] new calf release...

[Krzysztof Foltman]

On 06/01/11 12:14, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:

> yummy! i've been using calf git for a while, but it feels kind of icky
> to do a project with those plugins, especially since i got shot in the
> foot by you guys before when you threw out the hi- and lowpass plugs
> that i had been using in several sessions, on almost every track...

The modular-synth ones? You shouldn't have been using those in first 
place, unless it was an Ingen project or some other LV2-based modular, 
if such a thing exists.

In that case - it might be worthwhile to find a maintainer for these 
plugins as a separate project, as I already have difficulty maintaining 
the core set due to lack of time. I'd say that for most people, those 
plugins generally weren't very useful and only polluted the plugin list.

> after an inconspicuous "git pull", i had piles and piles of "missing
> plugin" errors in ardour and everything sounded crap :(
>
> goes to show: there is a reason why pre-release software hasn't been
> released yet. i lived and learned :)

I thought the fact that these plugins required --enable-experimental to 
be compiled in first place, and that they didn't even support stereo 
signals, was enough of a warning. In worst case, you can always revert 
to an old version, that still had those plugins.

However, in new projects, you should use Calf Filter instead. It is 
stable, supports stereo and isn't going to be dropped in the near 
future. It also does some things that you'd find desirable in this kind 
of a plugin, for example the smoothing of cutoff value, avoiding some of 
the "scratchy knob noise".

K.