3 Sep
2009
3 Sep
'09
8:31 a.m.
Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net>
writes:
VST, VSTi and LV2 support would be fine, but more common seems to be a
good working DSSI and LADSPA support for Linux, than a good working VST,
VSTi support or any support for LV2, even if LV2 is native Linux.
I'm using Qtractor and I guess it comes without LV2 support:
"Qtractor 0.4.2.1376
Build target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: release
JACK Audio Connection Kit support . . . . . . . .: yes
ALSA MIDI Sequencer support . . . . . . . . . . .: yes
General audio file support (libsndfile) . . . . .: yes
Ogg Vorbis audio file support (libvorbis) . . . .: yes
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 file support (libmad) . . . .: yes
Sample-rate conversion support (libsamplerate) . .: yes
Pitch-shifting support (librubberband) . . . . . .: yes
OSC service support (liblo) . . . . . . . . . . .: yes
IEEE 32bit float optimizations . . . . . . . . . .: yes
SSE optimization support (x86) . . . . . . . . . .: yes
LADSPA Plug-in support . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: yes
DSSI Plug-in support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: yes
VST Plug-in support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: yes
XInitThreads() support (DANGEROUS) . . . . . . . .: no
Gradient eye-candy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: yes
Debugger stack-trace (gdb) . . . . . . . . . . . .: no
Install prefix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: /usr/local"
I welcome ladish, but most of the times I would
like to have a
Linuxsampler DSSI, a Hydrogen DSSI etc. ;).
You prefer DSSI over LV2? In recent years I've spent lot of time on both
JACK session handling problem and LV2. The two technologies have
something in common and have their pros and cons. I think that both are
needed. JACK plugins (apps in session handling environment) provide better
separatation and allow the developer to do more tricks, it is the more
flexible. LV2 plugins provide less overhead, better match the plugin
image in users`s heads, but are more restricte. The LV2 GUI problem is
especially bad, it slows LV2 adoption because hosts and plugins need to
use same GUI toolkit. LV2 External UI extension maybe will fix this,
time will tell. Maybe JACK plugins are more viable than LV2
plugins. After all we have more JACK mini-apps than complex
LV2+DSSI+LADSPA plugins.