All calf plugins are without any gui

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azim_sahim
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All calf plugins are without any gui

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Hi! i am searched for saturator plugin, and found out that calf plugins include it. I installed them, but in reaper they aren't show their gui. In ardour it works good, but for some reasons i can't use ardour. Is there any solution to show gui, or maybe you know any other good saturator plugin?

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Re: All calf plugins are without any gui

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This reminds me of LMMS which I use.

There the cafl gui does not show either. The LMMS devs are working on this tough.
(and on lmms we still can those plugins)

Maybe it better to find out why Ardour is giving you issues ?

Start Ardour from the command line, and see if it complains about something?

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Re: All calf plugins are without any gui

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Ildaeil works for me (I don't use Reaper but that shouldn't matter)

https://github.com/DISTRHO/Ildaeil/releases

It is described as a mini-wrapper around Carla, though Carla (2.5.3) itself crashes with the Calf plugins, while they do work, including GUI, in Ildaeil.

One caveat: the Calf parameters are not exposed to the host, so automation is out of the question. Hopefully that feature gets added soon.

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Re: All calf plugins are without any gui

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@azim_sahim

I installed them, but in reaper they aren't show their gui. In ardour it works good.

First hypothesis: the plugins are built with a different version of libc than Reaper, but the same version as Ardour.

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Re: All calf plugins are without any gui

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Reaper didn't support GTK based UI's in LV2 plugs. (Calf UI's been based on GTK)
The Calf plugins works in Ardour as long you use Ardour from your distribution and therewith the same GTK version. As soon you use Ardour from there official builds they wont work any-more.
So, using Ildaeil to sandbox the UI is the most feasible solution.

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Re: All calf plugins are without any gui

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In ardour it works pretty well. I think that Ildaeil will increase cpu load. So, maybe someone know any saturation plugin?

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Re: All calf plugins are without any gui

Post by elcalen »

Airwindows has a lot of good saturation stuff. I've been using his Distortion and Tube2 plugins lately, but there's a bunch of others as well.

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