14 Jan
2011
14 Jan
'11
1:27 p.m.
On 01/14/2011 11:08 AM, allcoms wrote:
Hi list,
I suppose I could've just addressed this to drobilla and got most of my
questions answered but it concerns us all really as even if A3 and qtractor
were to achieve feature parity with Cubase and buds tomorrow (obviously I'm
stretching things a bit there) we still wouldn't see vast droves switching
to Linux DAWs for a few reasons such as hardware support, people liking what
they know etc. but most importantly the dearth of quality native plugins
available for Linux seems to be a primary showstopper for most.
Is that necessarily bad? Maybe there is a dearth of quality native
plugins, but I'm fine with the plugins that are available currently. And
I'm happy I don't have to make up my mind which plugins to choose from
the thousands of plugins available if I would use a proprietary OS.
DSSI has a few things coded for it but not much and
its still very early
days for LV2 so the open plugin format of the future is still anyones game
and it may not necessarily be either of those that succeeds and gets widely
used of course. I think a couple of VSTs have been ported over to LV2 but
I'm not aware of any that have been ported to DSSI and I think that the ease
in doing so is quite an important factor in the success of any such format,
if not the be-all and end-all. If anyone here has any experience with coding
and/or porting VSTis - what is currently lacking from LV2 or DSSI that could
potentially cause problems for someone wanting to port their big beefy synth
or snazzy FX from VSTi to LV2 or DSSI? I already know about the incomplete
persist LV2 extension but I'm pretty sure that won't be the only thing
needing work.
Don't forget native Linux VST's, their number is steadily growing also.
I think I have about 60 to 70 of those sitting on my harddrive.
Unfortunately there are very few hosts.
Best,
Jeremy