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Paul Davis schrieb:
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 22:17 +0100, Hartmut Noack
wrote:
But to have proprietary VST-plugins running
perfectly well on Linux will
not help promoting the development of free software for Linux like LV2
or AMS.
I respectfully disagree. If it was possible to run arbitrary win32/x86
VST's on linux/x86 with no hassle, there would very little barrier to
people moving to linux for their audio needs. plugins are often the
blocking issue to this migration, not host applications. like it or not,
the plugins exist, and they are not appearing for linux at anything
close to a sufficient rate to justify any active audio users migrating
at present.
Yeah - true again. Saying goodbye to their VST-plugins is the thing
experienced Win/Mac-users abhor the most. So it would help to draw
people to Linux if they could run their DLLs whithout hassle.
Still I think that too much attention and efforts are focussed towards
making VST-DLLs run in Linux and too little towards free, native solutions.
like it or not,
the plugins exist, and they are not appearing for linux at anything
close to a sufficient rate to justify any active audio users migrating
at present.
Many that work with Linux have only a brief look at LADSPA-plugins and
apps like AMS or Specimen - they test it for 2-3h then they say "OK so
what - I want my NI-DLLs back." It is true, that LADSPA does not have
the same powers in store as the VST-world but not only the plugins that
are there are used as they could be used. It is quite funny to see
someone who writes software in a modular system and does not understand,
that 5-6 simple LADSPA-plugins can be used as modules to build something
new, that is powerful and flexible.
So one might call me a zelot - I am with Linux because it is GNU. And I
dislike to have interactive applications running, that do not fit into
the free ecosystem of GNU/Linux. So I think solutions like LV2 need much
more attention then they get now.
best regs
HZN
sorry Paul for sending this twice - mixed up the adresses :-)
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