[LAU] LV2, DSSI and the future of plugins

Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com
Sun Jan 16 05:30:48 UTC 2011


On 1/16/11, Ken Restivo wrote:

>> > 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.
>>
>> The last sentence quite nails it :)
>
> I can't stand the whole idea of closed-source VSTs and plugins and synths.

I do genuinely believe that Autostatic was referring to open sourced VSTs.

> Yeah, I'm one of THOSE guys.
>
> Seriously, I'm using linux becuase of the freedom, the open source, and the
> political aspect of it. That's why I run it. I wouldn't bother with it
> otherwise.

I can't possibly imagine political aspect of writing music. Oh wait,
Peter Gabriel did it with "Biko". Right :)

> If I wanted to use proprietary, closed-source software, why would I even try
> to get it running on Linux at all?
>
> Taking this a bit father: if convenience, "user experience", time,
> availability, commercial support, etc were REALLY important, why wouldn't I
> just get a MacBook Pro like everyone else has, and run that?

A tad too far, maybe? :)

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org


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