Hi Florian,

Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the conversation.

I'm agreement with Alexandre Prokudine, a standalone JACK application for 32 bit and 64bit would cover 95% of the target audience.
Perhaps it would not afford entirely to my intended workflow with Kontact (namely using as a plugin in Ardour3): but it would be a huge step forward.

Although a native VST would also be possible: I (speaking for myself, as its a delicate topic) feel it is a step in the wrong direction. I'm currently using LV2 as my main plugin platform: DSSI and LADSPA days are (again in my opinion) over, while VST's license makes it a bad choice. LV2 is still an emerging plugin standard: But since it is extensible and can be backwards compatible: I feel it is the future. It does involve learning a new plugin "language", and due to its extensibility I have found it quite hard to learn. That said I'm not a wizard coder, so it could be my own personal learning curve I'm up against. Or most likely a bit of both.

I feel I should mention that although I would like to spend time to attempt to realize a Linux version of Kontact, I do not have extensive experience in the field of sample engines or porting software. That said, I'm all up for learning :)

Looking forward to a response, -Harry



On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Florian Schirmer <florian.schirmer@native-instruments.de> wrote:
Hi Harry,

i'm curious, what exactly would be the linux version of Kontakt? Kontakt VST for Linux? Standalone? DSSI? LV2?

What is necessary to cover 95% of the users?

Thanks,
    Florian

On 31.08.2012, at 15:43, Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Nils <list@nilsgey.de> wrote:
The direct and naive solution would be a reversed engineered kontakt sample engine, yes.
Very naive.

The community could approach NI and ask if they're intrested in supporting a Linux version of Kontact? I volunteer to write the email, and if they laugh then what harm done...

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