fircomp Free compressor with perfect curves

[sunrat]

It does indeed look interesting but I just tried the Linux version and it was instantly blacklisted in Mixbus and didn't show in Carla. The Win version comes as a .vst file rather than a .dll so LinVST didn't recognise it either.
Hopefully someone can get it working and share. I like its non-skeuomorphic interface for starters.

[tavasti]

It does indeed look interesting but I just tried the Linux version and it was instantly blacklisted in Mixbus and didn't show in Carla. The Win version comes as a .vst file rather than a .dll so LinVST didn't recognise it either.
Hopefully someone can get it working and share. I like its non-skeuomorphic interface for starters.

Doesn't look like loading:

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tavasti@hermo:~/Downloads/foo$ carla-single native vst3 FirComp.vst3/Contents/x86_64-linux/FirComp.so 
['/usr/lib/carla/carla-bridge-native', 'vst3', 'FirComp.vst3/Contents/x86_64-linux/FirComp.so', '(none)', '0']
libjack.so.0 loaded successfully!
Plugin failed to load, error was:
Failed to get plugin description

[sunrat]

Worth a bug report. It's a shame to have a Linux version which doesn't work under Linux. I would like to try it as it looks good.

What distro did you try it on @tavasti ? It says it's built on Ubuntu 18.04 which should be compatible with my Debian Buster. I got exactly the same error as you did.

[Kott]

Works fine here. If something doesn't loads - do check the libraries with ldd ./plugin.so

AFAIK according JUCE license the code of this plugin must be opened. I'm doubt that authors have the commercial or indie JUCE license.

[Kott]

It does indeed look interesting but I just tried the Linux version and it was instantly blacklisted in Mixbus and didn't show in Carla. The Win version comes as a .vst file rather than a .dll so LinVST didn't recognise it either.
Hopefully someone can get it working and share. I like its non-skeuomorphic interface for starters.

Doesn't look like loading:

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tavasti@hermo:~/Downloads/foo$ carla-single native vst3 FirComp.vst3/Contents/x86_64-linux/FirComp.so 
['/usr/lib/carla/carla-bridge-native', 'vst3', 'FirComp.vst3/Contents/x86_64-linux/FirComp.so', '(none)', '0']
libjack.so.0 loaded successfully!
Plugin failed to load, error was:
Failed to get plugin description

vst3 plugins must be opened with path to the bundle, not the library's binary:

carla-single vst3 FirComp.vst3

[sysrqer]

It works here for me as well in Reaper.

[sunrat]

vst3 plugins must be opened with path to the bundle, not the library's binary:

carla-single vst3 FirComp.vst3

Aah, ok:

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$ carla-single vst3 FirComp.vst3
['/usr/lib/carla/carla-bridge-native', 'vst3', 'FirComp.vst3', '(none)', '0']
libjack.so.0 loaded successfully!
JUCE Assertion failure in juce_AudioPluginInstance.cpp:203
Previous plugin state in '/home/roger/.vst/FirComp.carxs' is non-existent, will start from default state

GUI appears, now to see if it works.
Still have that "JUCE Assertion failure"

[tavasti]

vst3 plugins must be opened with path to the bundle, not the library's binary:

carla-single vst3 FirComp.vst3

Oh, my bad! Yes, plugin seems to be workin!

[Kott]

The Win version is FirComp.vst3, the Linux is FirComp.so
I tried on the Win version (I have WINE):

Linux version is a vst3 "bundle" - directory with proper structure:

```
tree FirComp.vst3
FirComp.vst3
└── Contents
└── x86_64-linux
└── FirComp.so
```

and should be open as a bundle, not .so directly.

[sunrat]

The Win version is FirComp.vst3, the Linux is FirComp.so
I tried on the Win version (I have WINE):

Linux version is a vst3 "bundle" - directory with proper structure:

```
tree FirComp.vst3
FirComp.vst3
└── Contents
└── x86_64-linux
└── FirComp.so
```

and should be open as a bundle, not .so directly.

How unintuitive. I haven't dealt with vst3 before.

Edit: working! Thanks Kott!

[sunrat]

I sorted out loading in Mixbus too, thanks to the helpful message and link to VST3 specifications in Preferences > Plugins > VST. It has to go in ~/.vst3 not ~/vst for user, or for global /usr/lib/vst3/ or /usr/local/lib/vst3/ . Source - https://steinbergmedia.github.io/vst3_d ... #pluginloc