jonetsu wrote:Well, all commercial plugins have no problem in supporting VST2, VST3, Mac's AU and ProTools' AAX.
G2500 is not a plugin. You (and others) complain, it is not a plugin, if I read you correctly.
It is something like this:
I produce a sailing boat, and you complain it is not a train.
I made G2500 in the first place for myself, because I wanted and needed it. As I showed it to others, they suggested, I made it public, so I did.
jonetsu wrote:It's certainly a different approach, much like playing a real instrument and recording it using microphones. In this case if I understood correctly the G2500 is played like an instrument, has no link to a DAW, possibly cannot be sequenced by a DAW, and is recorded by tapping the audio output into a DAW.
You then didn't understood it correctly, I'm sorry.
I mainly use G2500 under Mac OS X together with my DAW, Ableton Live. Now, read on, as I will target Linux in the following.
Under macos, I can send MIDI messages from my DAW to G2500 using the IAC Driver, as stated on the homepage,
G2500 Virtual Analog:
- * The G2500 is easily controlled from e.g. a software DAW using the IAC Driver found in the MacOS "Audio MIDI Setup"
To get the audio from G2500 back into the DAW, I use a software audio device known as "Soundflower for Mac", also stated on the homepage:
- * Audio is easily sent to e.g. a software DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) using software such as "Soundflower for Mac"
Under Linux, you get the same functionality in one software package known as JACK, and G2500 has support for JACK under Linux. I will update the manual (and probably homepage) with this info. Under Linux, when G2500 launch, it will try to connect to a JACK server. If JACK is not found, it will fall back to using ALSA for MIDI interface and what you choose for audio. As G2500 uses SDL, you can select audio driver with the SDL_AUDIODRIVER env variable. Info:
https://wiki.libsdl.org/FAQUsingSDL#How ... _driver.3F
So if you use JACK, it is easy under Linux to connect G2500 with your DAW or other audio equipment, and also whatever MIDI equipment, you have.
I hope, this answers questions.