Hi list and happy 2024!
I am running Manjaro (an Arch-based distro). It seems now I have a
'pipewire' package installed, but also pulseaudio. I don't think I have
actively tried to install 'pipewire' but maybe it's a dependency for
'something'?
Anyways, my current audio set-up is still as it has been for quite a
while on my laptop:
- pulseaudio for 'eveyday'
- jack for audio stuff and software (with a still working script I start
only when needed to have a pulseaudio 'sink' - e.g. running jack and
wanting to play audio or video from the browser)
All of this works as expected and I am still rather unaware of the
pipewire intricacies and configurations.
One thing I have noticed is that now it seems that alsa midi ports are
exposed as jack midi ports as well. Meaning... if I start some
notoriously ALSA-MIDI-only applications such as Rosegarden, Pure Data or
Qtractor their midi Outputs are shown in QJackCtl in the MIDI (i.e. JACK
MIDI) section and are also visible in notoriously JACK-MIDI-only
applications like Ardour or Carla, albeit without their port names
(Carla puts everything in 'System' and calls the various ports
'midi_capture_1', 'midi_capture_2' etc. regardless of application,
Ardour puts everything under 'system' and then does distinguish
applications if set to 'show individual ports' but just lists # ports
without their names, QJackCtl lists the applications and then for each
lists ports as 'midi/playback1', 'midi/playback2' etc.)
The most interesting aspect is that besides the naming quirk these ports
seem to work meaning that connecting rosegarden to, say, an Ardour MIDI
track with a plugin will make noise. That is without going through
a2jmidid. a2midid actually works pretty well so I'm not sure what the
'real' advantage would be, but it's still something interesting IMHO.
Lorenzo
I'm glad to announce the release of XUiDesigner v1.0
A easy to use GUI based tool to generate/design LV2 Plugin Bundles with
GUI's for Linux and Windows.
- Generate GUI Bundle for existing LV2 plugins to use system wide
- Generate LV2 plugin Bundle with GUI from scratch
- Generate LV2 plugin Bundle with GUI from plain C++ files
- Generate LV2 plugin Bundle with GUI from faust (MIDI/AUDIO) dsp files
- Rework GUI's of saved Bundles at any later state
- Generate cross platform compatible Plugins with makefiles for
Linux/Windows
- Support github workflow to build binaries for releases
## Supported widget types
- Knob -> could support horizontal framed png
- HSlider -> could support horizontal framed png
- VSlider -> could support horizontal framed png
- Button -> could support single png/horizontal framed png
- Toggle Button -> could support horizontal framed png
- ComboBox
- Value Display
- Label
- VMeter
- HMeter
- Frame
- TabBox
- WaveView
- File Chooser Button
- Virtual MIDI Keyboard
## Workflow
Here is a short introduction
[Wiki](https://github.com/brummer10/XUiDesigner/wiki/XUiDesigner)
XUiDesigner is released under the free BSD Zero Clause License
project page is here:
https://github.com/brummer10/XUiDesigner
release page is here:
https://github.com/brummer10/XUiDesigner/releases/tag/v1.0
direct download of the source tarball:
https://github.com/brummer10/XUiDesigner/releases/download/v1.0/XUIDesigner…
greetings
hermann
