[LAU] NoiseMaker LV2 port

[Leigh Dyer]

On 13/10/11 10:25 PM, allcoms wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Jeremy Jongepier <autostatic at gmail.com
> <mailto:autostatic at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     The guy(s) @ Distrho is/are working on an LV2 wrapper thingy. But
>     that's something else than a port of course. Well, just FYI ;)
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> Hmm! falktx didn't mention this to me. I'm not sure how well this would
> work and I think a proper LV2 port would still be for the best.

 From what I understand, it is a proper port -- falktx is adding LV2 
support to the JUCE framework that the TAL plugins (and many other 
cross-platform VSTs) use, which should make it possible for them to be 
built as LV2 plugins.

I'm not exactly sure how the licencing works in all of that, but I do 
hope that it means that some of these ported plugins can go in to 
distros; that's definitely one of the biggest downside to native VSTs.

>
>         Before anyone pipes up - linuxsampler is NOT an option. LS and I
>         have never
>         seen eye to eye nor have I ever got it working properly anyway.
>         Its just a
>         complicated mess that won't load a simple wav.
>
>         Wish me luck!
>
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>     I will, I'd really like a good working simple sampler plug-in too.
>

Agreed -- something like a plugin version of Specimen (or Petri-Foo) 
would be very handy. FWIW, though, I've had great success with 
LinuxSampler as an LV2 plugin within Ardour 3, mostly with SFZ samples. 
I haven't actually made any of my own SFZ instruments yet, but it's a 
simple text-based format so it doesn't require any specific tools to 
work with.

I wrote a (lengthy) article all about LinuxSampler a little while ago -- 
hopefully it can help to clear up some of the confusion about it:

http://wootangent.net/2011/07/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-linuxsampler/

Thanks
Leigh