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Re: fircomp Free compressor with perfect curves
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:18 am
by 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.
Re: fircomp Free compressor with perfect curves
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:21 am
by tavasti
sunrat wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:18 am
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
Re: fircomp Free compressor with perfect curves
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:38 am
by 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.
Re: fircomp Free compressor with perfect curves
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:58 am
by 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.
Re: fircomp Free compressor with perfect curves
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:59 am
by Kott
tavasti wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:21 am
sunrat wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:18 am
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
Re: fircomp Free compressor with perfect curves
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:16 am
by sysrqer
It works here for me as well in Reaper.
Re: fircomp Free compressor with perfect curves
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:29 am
by sunrat
Kott wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:59 am
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"
Re: fircomp Free compressor with perfect curves
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:34 am
by tavasti
Kott wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:59 am
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!
Re: fircomp Free compressor with perfect curves
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:35 am
by Kott
sunrat wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:29 am
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.
Re: fircomp Free compressor with perfect curves
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:41 am
by sunrat
Kott wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:35 am
sunrat wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:29 am
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!
Re: fircomp Free compressor with perfect curves
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 12:50 pm
by 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