3 Jul
2011
3 Jul
'11
1:53 a.m.
Excerpts from david's message of 2011-07-02 22:08:02 +0200:
Philipp Überbacher wrote:
The point was that to get native VSTs the windows VSTs need to be ported
too. I really don't know what's easier, someone who's done both might
know.
Excerpts from Leigh Dyer's message of
2011-07-02 18:55:07 +0200:
Is LV2 available on Windows & Mac?
If not, and VST wasn't a working option on Linux, then there'd be no
effort by makers of commercial VSTs for Windows/Mac to make them work on
Linux. Why do what might be difficult custom work (porting to LV2) for a
very small set of customers? On 07/03/2011 02:24 AM, rosea grammostola wrote:
How many commercial hosts are there? There are certainly more free
software hosts on Linux.
They should release a LV2 version instead imho.
LV2 is much better
supported on Linux then VST. LV2 is ready for it...
I'm not sure that LV2 is
really that much better supported -- it has
better support in open-source apps (notably Ardour 3), but Renoise
apparently has very solid native VST support. I'd love to have an LV2 Pianoteq, but being
realistic, I know that
there's a good chance that it won't happen. I'm sure it's a lot of extra
work to implement support for a new plugin format, compared to simply
porting the existing VST code to a new platform.
Both requires porting. I don't dare to judge how much work each case is.
There aren't that many native VST plugins, so I guess it's far from
simple.
If we want to encourage more commercial
developers to bring their
Windows/OS X VST plugins across to Linux, I think having good native VST
support in common hosts is going to help. I know that's not a goal some
would share, but I'm personally in favour of having as many options
available as possible.
Thanks
Leigh
Native VST support is a bane. It will drag along the VST license
troubles indefinitely. In my opinion every work done for native VST is
work lost for LV2, and it's not like there are a lot of developers
around.
At one point native VST might have seemed attractive (VST but more
stable than non-native, what else is the point of it?), but this
must have been the time before LV2. DSSI and especially ladspa might
have been limited in one way or another, but LV2 is potentially superior
to VST and while there's certainly much that can be done, I doubt that
it really lacks behind in capabilities even now.
So in my opinion native VST should be forgotten about as fast as
possible.