Paul Davis:
>
> On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 16:06 +0100, Jay Vaughan wrote:
>> At 20:08 +0100 22/1/07, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
>>> What I'd like to work on is a sound processing architecture (LADSPA,
>>> VST, DSSI, etc.) wrapper, which hides the details of a particular
>>> implementation to audio program developers.
>>
>> Nice idea. Already done:
>>
>> http://teragon.org/products/PluginCore/
>>
>>> What do you think about it?
>>
>> Would be nice if there were a GPL effort in the same way ..
>
> ARDOUR::Plugin ?
>
> which currently wraps VST, LADSPA and will soon do either LV2 or
> DSSI ...
>
> yeah, ok, so its partly in jest, but not entirely.
>
Another one is the "Juce Audio Plugin Framework", which
wraps VSTs, RTAS and AudioUnits.
http://www.rawmaterialsoftware.com/juce/download.php
It doesn't support ladspa though, but Julian said that he should
look at LV2. (He also said that he hadn't heard of LV2 before,
so maybe he hasn't heard about ladspa either. :-) So if someone
request ladspa, he might do that as well...)
Well... I know I'm quite a boring person, but I need some informations
for my project and so I'm going to stress you a bit ;-)
I'm wondering if JACK is suitable to transfer non-audio data beetween
applications (my particular case is to transfer control data to
processing plugins). Is that "naturally" possible, is it an hack or is
it impossible at all?
And another thing (I'm too lazy to check it out myself :-P): does jack
transfers data by copying or uses something like shared memory or
whatever?
Thanks is advance.
Stefano D'Angelo
2007/1/24, Jay Vaughan <jayv(a)synth.net>:
> At 20:08 +0100 22/1/07, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
> >What I'd like to work on is a sound processing architecture (LADSPA,
> >VST, DSSI, etc.) wrapper, which hides the details of a particular
> >implementation to audio program developers.
>
> Nice idea. Already done:
>
> http://teragon.org/products/PluginCore/
>
> >What do you think about it?
>
> Would be nice if there were a GPL effort in the same way ..
>
> --
>
> ;
>
> Jay Vaughan
>
>
Well, it seems like LV2 can do (at least theorically) all of these
already, altough some things might be a bit tricky (read the rest of
the conversation).
Now I'm seeking whether this approach (LV2 bridges plugins) can
present practical problems and, in such case, I think it's better to
solve them in LV2 than restart from scratch.
To be true, there are two things I'm concerned about: one (less
relevant, maybe) is RDF files... a bridge plugin should generate them
for all installed plugins when it is loaded, and so it has to contain
(or link to) code that can handle such syntax (I really don't
understand why LV2 developers choose such language instead of XML,
which is much more known and supported).
The other one is more serious (but should have been also faced by
vstserver, fst and dssi-vst): I'm talking about logical compatibility
beetween LV2 and other standards (VST in this case) in handling some
tasks (settings and session storing, banks/effects/programs metaphor,
etc.). Does anyone know about these matters?
Then I think that it would be nice if some GUI programs could take
advantage of trapping Xlib (or whatever) functions (LD_PRELOAD?) in
order to embed plugin GUIs inside the app and/or have a library that
autogenerates GUIs for non GUI-plugins (well... the XML GUI
specification for LADSPA has been dropped in LV2 in favour of
extensions?).
... it's such a complex matter :-P
Regards,
Stefano
I recently began work on a new music notation editor called ScoreChaser. A
prototype release can be found at sourceforge.net/projects/scorechaser.
Its intent is to be a program in the vein of Rosegarden (and indeed, it
borrows quite heavily from RG, at least in these early versions), but with
groupable tracks, tablature support, and (eventually) multiple simultaneous
time signatures.
It's currently just an initial release with very limited functionality, but it
does demonstrate the groupable tracks and the beginnings of tablature
support.
Hi all,
SecretRabbitCode was recently included in a test of a number of
commercially available sample rate converters and while it wasn't
the best, it certainly didn't disgrace itself either.
The results are here:
http://src.infinitewave.ca/
This test gives me yet more incentive to continue my work on coming
up with a new improved algorithm.
Cheers,
Erik
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"I'd rather not work with people who aren't careful. It's darwinism
in software development." -- Linus Torvalds on the linux-kernel list
On 22 Jan 2007, at 22:15, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
> 2007/1/22, Dmitry Baikov <dsbaikov(a)gmail.com>:
>> On 1/23/07, Stefano D'Angelo <zanga.mail(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Good point! This is true, but there are lots of sound processing
>> > plugins around, so maybe instead of creating a new API and then
>> apply
>> > some "compatibility layer", it should be better to create a
>> wrapping
>> > tool natively. I think it should be also easier to expand.
>>
>> Then, embrase LV2 and create LV2 plugins that will load VSTs, LADSPA
>> and anything you want.
>> Or if you want something not possible with LV2, write an extension
>> proposal.
>>
>> I think LV2 was designed as a very extendable API.
>> If it is not, in your opinion, then help the guys to improve it.
>
> That could be a very wise solution, but there's one big problem with
> it: when you load a LV2 plugin, you load only one plugin!
> To be clearer I make an example: I have 10 VST plugin, and I want to
> write a LV2 plugin which loads VST plugins. When the LV2-aware
> application asks me which plugin I want to load I should specify the
> VST plugin loader... but then? There's no way for my LV2 plugin to
> determine which VST plugin it should load.
This works fine, and was in the design brief for LV2. When asked what
effects your LV2 plugin supports, you can return a list.
> But also if this is an overcomeable problem, for each VST plugin I
> load I have to waste memory space with a new instance of the LV2 VST
> loader plugin.
No you don't. A LV2 VST loader would be a single shared object, so
the OS would only load one instance of it.
> Then, it is quite absurde from the user point of view to open a plugin
> which lets you open other plugins... it's just illogical!
It doesn't look like that to the user, they will just see a list of
plugins, some of which will be VST and some will not be. Have you
tried the DSSI VST reflector? It would work the same as that.
> Don't misunderstand me, LV2 is great, I think that it's the best
> processing architecture out there, but it's designed with a 1:1
> relationship in mind (one plugin = one effect). That's absolutely not
> an LV2 weakness, it just does its job and nothing else (as it should
> be).
You need to read the spec again.
The terminology is confused, not least in the spec documents, but a
single .lv2 "plugin" can host multiple effects with different ports
and so on.
- Steve
Greetings:
I've placed online an interview with Rui Capela, the creator of
QJackCtl, QSynth, QSampler, and QTractor. You can read it here:
http://www.linuxjournal.com
Enjoy!
Best,
dp
Just a quick heads-up.
As some of you may know, I recently left my old job and the
University of Southampton. But, I forgot to fill in the paperwork to
keep my old accounts, machines etc.
Consequently my @ecs.soton.ac.uk and @plugin.org.uk addresses stopped
working, and the server that was running plugin.org.uk went offline.
I now have my email accounts back. I'm still fishing through the
backlog, so if you sent anything and I haven't replied, give it a
week or so then try again. Some stuff will have been lost.
Plugin.org.uk is back online at a new server, but judging by my inbox
some things aren't working right. I'll look at it over the next day
or so.
- Steve
I am an electronic musician (even an computer musician). I am
specializen in any kind of electronic music from techno to glitch .Here
are some of my releases:
www.ccmixter.org/media/people/game_core
I am also a regular participator of soundevotion
(www.sdcompo.com)tracking competition (as crosfire)
I mainly use trackers (renoise,fasttracker, sakale), but have experience
in modular synthesis (reaktor, buzz, arts builder), midi/audio/vst
sequencers (cubase, logic), and other (rebirth, reason, and many
others).
The point is that if you have developed an music application (linux, or
windows), and need demo songs, or a simple testing, then I am probably
interested:).
I know that most of open source audio developers are also musicians, and
they do the demo songs, and bug testing, and other things by themselves,
but there not always is time. Anyway I am here to help you! :D
On 1/19/07, Leonard Ritter <contact(a)leonard-ritter.com> wrote:
> i don't see why we need to "move" to forums. mailing lists and forums
> have a different target audience and purpose.
>
> however i strongly support a linux audio related forum - especially for
> people new to the subject or searching for help (right now they turn up
> on irc in order to make fools out of themselves), an aggregation of
> knowledge in form of organizable threads that can be browsed wouldn't be
> such a terrible idea.
>
> "we need one because others have one" is a stupid argument. there are
> far better arguments for a forum.
>
> i think all that is needed is someone with some (security related)
> experience with forums and enough time to set it up and moderate - i am
> convinced ico or whoever is responsible for la.org will happily provide
> resources for such an experiment.
Ok, Apparently forum addicts have decided to hijack this thread
though, the original question was : do you want LA* _lists_ (LIST is
the keyword here, can't stress it enough) to be moved to
linuxaudio.org.
I have noting against the idea of a forum, the people interested in
this are free to build and maintain one and eventually discuss it with
Ico. I'm sure
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