LinuxMusicians

Host provided UIs are only useful / usable in a very few simple cases. Custom UIs (even photo-realistic ones which are the ones that seem to attract the most polarized reactions) provide a familiar interface, especially in the case of an emulation of real hardware (you instinctively know where the c...

@ssj71: good quality monitors (and if you're fortunate enough, a good quality room - doesn't have to be huge, but properly set up) is essential - far more than any other piece of (modern) equiplment in your signal chain. That said (and I know, I'm biased, however...) good quality audio processing so...

@vehka: As a commercial developer, I can say that, in my experience linux users are prepared to pay for good quality software - some may not wish to for personal / political reasons, and that's their choice to do so, but for those who just prefer linux as an OS, the option to use commercial software...

@stanlea: You're right, so far I haven't found any "best" plugin format, and as I mentioned linux presents some uniquely horrible problems for plugins with custom GUIs (and I know there are some who think these unnecessary, but, for a variety of reasons I think they are essential, and I'm ...

Bitwig will only support VST plugins in v1 - no LV2 or LADSPA. I would be very surprised to see (cross platform) support for LV2 - for what its worth, as another commercial developer, my point of view is something like: 1. Disclaimer - all plugin standards have problems, just so what follows does n...

It's a good discussion, but there's a lot of confusion too - we should condense the information into something like a wikipage IMHO There's no need for any confusion - as regards JACK, Paul wrote it and therefore is the authority on how it works, and there is already a wiki (and other information) ...

oh he's manipulating the float? Looked that way to me (only a quick look at the code) - in some cases this can provide optimizations above using conventional floating point math, but normally only in very specific cases (which should require detailed knowledge of the architecture and / or compiler)...

Thats right not a single floating point operation! It does use floating point - it explicitly requires that the sample values are floats (and are processed as floats in the host) for your hack on the exponent and mantissa bit fields to actually work properly. Unless you know exactly what you are do...

Yes. I can insert any of my vsts (distrho and propietary) in tracks. openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 Well I guess that proves there isn't anything (fundamentally) wrong with the plugin code, e.g. it can work (and obviously they all work in other hosts). I still think there must be something wrong with Trackti...

@FalkTX: I think you're right, it seems broken to me. I had to remove my .config/Tracktion4/Tracktion-Settings file each time I tried to re-scan the plugins to be sure it had forced a genuine re-scan. It seems to me that it doesn't even find the main entry point into the plugin (seems also to happen...

Has anyone been able to get any linuxVST plugins working in the latest release? Everything I've tried so far, loomer, TAL etc just fails during scanning with 'deactivated after failing to initialize' or some such message. The plugins work fine on the same machine (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) in Ardour3, energ...

I never got the feeling that the JACK devs really care about session management In conversation with the JACK devs (actually Ardour's lead developer) I got the impression that there is a strong desire to sort out all of the (perceived) problems with JACK, and the ideal would be a JACK3 version whic...

Since when is laziness a valid excuse? Of course, there is no excuse for my obvious laziness as a developer, and I'm sure the quality of my work bears that out.. However, I've simply tried to put forward a (sensible?) point of view, not a criticism, but I fear that arguing this any more, especially...

"Liblo is not a hard dependency. Anything that can send/receive OSC messages should work." It is a dependency unless e.g. in my case I wrote my own OSC library, which as I said previously, if I was going to go to the trouble of doing that, then it would be just as much (or perhaps less) w...

@studio32: I'm not being critical of any session manager - especially, I think NSM is actually a better attempt than most, but, I just think there is an issue with implementing this in a more broadly compatible way. I don't see the problem with the session protocol being part of the JACK API - in wh...