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FOSS fixes/features wishes if you had money to give?

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If you somehow magically had a fair bit of money to use, and you wanted to give it to a developer of a free/open source software project, what fixes and/or features might you request in exchange? Either audio or related/other software.

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  • Calf: get rid of GTK dependency.
  • MusE: clap+vst3 support.

Not FOSS (maybe a FOSS add-on?) - Renoise: change pattern editor scrolling behaviour. A pattern which is moving instead of the cursor is seriously maddening.

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As far as i know there is no linux native multiband dynamic EQ. I wish an EQ like TDR Nova existing for Linux.

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Post by tseaver »

@juki

As far as i know there is no linux native multiband dynamic EQ. I wish an EQ like TDR Nova existing for Linux.

I think I'm dumb-or-lucky enough not to know how I would use one. I can (barely) wrap my head around how I might use a multi-band compressor.

Can you outline the use-case? Maybe LSP plugins already has it, only we don't know it.

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Two things for LV2: create a system preset browser like the one in Cakewalk's old z3ta+ 1.5,
or as good as the one U-he provide, but with an optional floating panel with larger fonts easy to choose,
launchable by configurable key(s)

Secondly, pro quality sound design packs. There are a dozen great linux synths
that have plenty of unexploited potential.

For DecentSampler, the 16-part multi-timbrality as found in IK's SampleTank, would be
a boon to our linux-based orchestral producers. If Yoshimi can do it, other geniuses
like Rui should also rise to the occasion. padth1 with 16 layers? 8)

I love Rakarrack, would like the whole thing as a plugin, as well as some fresh and levels-corrected presets, would be great.

A Rakarrack frame supporting the Airwindows myriad releases would be great.

slightly unrelated Patreon's stubborn refusal to allow one-time donations? :roll:
Is Buy-me-a-coffee easy to implement for devs?

Ardour/Mixbus requiring a 'session' is a buzzkill. In reaper, when the Muse whispers,
she wants to play, and doesn't demand a session 8)

I'd love an effect-only version of Bitwig, and price the 16-track at $40,
pretty fair compared to Reaper's unlimited semi-pro version at $65,
and the basic Mixbus version pricing around $40 during that week of the year
when it's not on sale :wink:

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tseaver wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:34 pm

@juki

As far as i know there is no linux native multiband dynamic EQ. I wish an EQ like TDR Nova existing for Linux.

I think I'm dumb-or-lucky enough not to know how I would use one. I can (barely) wrap my head around how I might use a multi-band compressor.

Can you outline the use-case? Maybe LSP plugins already has it, only we don't know it.

English is not my native language so i'll avoid to make it even more complicated for you by shutting up. But if you really want to understand what is a dynamic EQ, there are tons of tutorials on the web. :D

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If I would have 100M€, I would setup company for making accounting and reporting for municipalities. There is so much special on those compared to normal accounting that you can't use any normal programs for it. Companies who do it are using MS technologies, and MS lisencing terms and prices are unbearable.

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Hmmm,

Improvements to whatever limitations are in AppImage (I haven't found any) and promotion of that (back to) to the primary way to provide bundled distro-agnostic binary versions of common FOSS DAWs, NLE's and other complex monolithic applications..

They are self contained binaries, easy to run and remove and most importantly roll back to a working version in the User area and leave the host system alone without completely requiring a complete second system-wide invasive packaging system. Developers used to balk at having to support DEB and RPM now they have to still do that plus 3 more so-called universal solutions.

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I would set up a company that creates simply the best plugins in the world, but then in an open format, binary packaged exclusively for Linux and excruciatingly hard to compile for any other OS. I would make sure they work excellently in Reaper, Bitwig, Studio One, Mixbus etc. and then I would endorse artist(s) with a sizable audience and get them to promote my stuff.

What happens then is that people flock massively to Linux because of it having the best plugins and because John Mayer (or any other artist or producer that manages to propel products into the stratosphere) is using them. They then discover that their machines perform much better, that they can get the most out of it, that their setups are more stable and that they don't have to pay half of the price of their work station for having a desecrated piece of fruit on it. This results in all major DAW companies to rapidly port their stuff over to Linux because they don't want to miss that train. End result will be of course that now everyone is on Linux all plugin companies are more or less compelled to port their plugins to Linux too.

I would then sell my company to Avid for way too much money and from that money I would be able to further strengthen the hegemony of FOSS and Linux.

Job done, world domination and finally the year of the Linux desktop arrives.

But really, I honestly thought about this matter in the past. But through the years almost all wishes got fulfilled. Almost all. I would still like something like Seq24 as a plugin. Or that https://github.com/pgiblock/lmms-lv2 would finally take off. Or that PHASEX becomes available as a plugin. Actually it's mainly plugins I'm missing at the moment.

Edit: with Carla you can run JACK apps as a plugin of course :roll:

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Post by bluebell »

I'd try to establish a standard framework/library that can be used by plugins and detects if there is a GPU present to have the GPU do the FFT/IFFT stuff.

Then graphic cards would make sense in computers for musicians.

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Post by asbak »

If I had magic money I'd sponsor a re-write of ALSA to update and merge JACK, Pulseaudio, Pipewire and FFADO features and capabilities into it to resolve the current spaghetti audio situation.

Additionally, Desktop releases from vendors will be encouraged to provide out of the box known audio fixes, enhancements, improvements and optimisations.

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Post by jmantra623 »

As far as music production goes, I would assemble a team to make a proper FOSS alternative to Melodyne so it's 1 to 1.

For other FOSS related, I would have a real proper Photoshop alternative that is better than the options we have now.

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