On 09/27/2011 07:57 PM, Paul Davis wrote: I was wondering ask if/what clients support native linux VSTs. Such news about ardour3 might give the linux VST thing a whole new twist... Lorenzo

On 09/27/2011 09:56 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Never got Jost to work properly and Qtractor supports LinuxVST's just fine but chokes on the more recent and complex ones (like the TAL plug-ins). Good to hear though A3 will have support for them too! And what about Renoise, doesn't Renoise support LinuxVST's too? From what I've heard that is your best option when you want to use native VST's. Best, Jeremy

On 09/28/2011 07:48 AM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote: is that qtractor svn? vestige on 64bit? it should be solved in latest qtractor svn trunk. or is that on kernel 3.0-rt, 64bit? strangely enough, the tal-plugins have this nasty tendency to crash when in presence of the 3.0-rt kernel (yes, it's the kernel that is crashing) no matter which vst headers are qtractor compiled in (vst-sdk or vestige) byee -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Lorenzo Sutton <lsutton(a)libero.it> wrote: i should stress that the VST plugin remain suboptimal for all kinds of reasons. i am not going to turn down work done by other people intended to improve users' lives and work, but it doesn't change the fact that the engineering and license situation of the VST makes it a really, really poor choice for anyone who really wants to release good plugins on Linux. it makes it harder for hosts to do the right thing, and harder for plugin authors to do the right thing. it has nothing whatsoever to recommend it except for the existing plugin authors who have chosen to support it.

On 09/28/2011 10:35 AM, Atte André Jensen wrote: No, take the Calf plugins for example, those are all available as DSSI plugins and include processing plugins like compressors, gates, eq's etc. Best, Jeremy

On 09/28/2011 11:29 AM, Louigi Verona wrote: Because renoise doesn't support lv2? -- Atte http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Atte André Jensen <atte(a)email.dk> wrote: I'm not sure if you saw my recent post to list looking for exactly such a plugin! I'd be pretty intrested in something similar to that.. And I've done a little reading around: bbcut (as suggested by Dave Phillips) is an awesome library for slicing & repeating stuttering etc, its written for SC & CSound, and there are standalone versions too. Using CsLadspa I think it would be trivial enough to provide a LADSPA interface to a csound bbcut file. This would however not provide the "tempo sync" that you're after. Of course one could create a standard LADSPA control input port, and label it "BPM", and hope that the host knows what to send it. Or that the user does. Obviously not an idea situation. Although LV2 could support BPM / subdivision info, that would need a extension for that to be written, AFAIK there isn't one available yet. (I'm aware LV2 is ruled out by Renoise anyway..) I'm not a great supporter of native VST's, my experience using EnergyXT 2.5 & all the linux vsts I could get my hands on wasn't particularly sparkely: some crashes, XT froze a bit, random latencies... :( What I've been doing recently is wrapping LADSPA plugins with custom UI's. Its not that much work, and I've got a set of default widgets like frequency graphs & ADSR like done which make the work go quite a bit faster. I would be willing to write a "custom" UI for a LADSPA plugin that does this sort of thing :) I'll be keeping an eye on this, -Harry

I wrote to them today with that very question as I was after both a Mac and Linux PPC build. Will let you all know if he doesn't reply on the list himself! On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Louigi Verona <louigi.verona(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy(a)autostatic.com>wrote;wrote: Thanks for the link Jeremy! The 32-bit LinuxVST available for download on the DiscoDSP site works fine for me but compiling it from scratch from this git repo under Debian Wheezy amd64 doesn't. Highlife compiles and links OK and I can load it into both A3 svn and qtractor 0.5.1 but I get the error: WAV Loader: File error. Unsupported Wave Chunk(s) When I tried loading a wav file under both DAWs. It seems to load ogg files but even then I can't get any sound out of it :/ It could be that the VST on the DiscoDSP site has patches missing from falktx's tree but falktx is too busy with other projects right now to tend to Highlife. In desperation I wrote to vember audio today asking them to consider porting (or even opening) their popular shortcircuit sampler VSTi to Linux. I think its pretty unlikely they'll bother as it hasn't been updated in years but I feel better for having asked anyway. Dan