Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net> writes:
>
>
>> I welcome ladish, but most of the times I would like to have a
>> Linuxsampler DSSI, a Hydrogen DSSI etc. ;).
>>
>
> You prefer DSSI over LV2? In recent years I've spent lot of time on both
> JACK session handling problem and LV2. The two technologies have
> something in common and have their pros and cons. I think that both are
> needed. JACK plugins (apps in session handling environment) provide better
> separatation and allow the developer to do more tricks, it is the more
> flexible. LV2 plugins provide less overhead, better match the plugin
> image in users`s heads, but are more restricte. The LV2 GUI problem is
> especially bad, it slows LV2 adoption because hosts and plugins need to
> use same GUI toolkit. LV2 External UI extension maybe will fix this,
> time will tell. Maybe JACK plugins are more viable than LV2
> plugins. After all we have more JACK mini-apps than complex
> LV2+DSSI+LADSPA plugins.

VST, VSTi and LV2 support would be fine, but more common seems to be a
good working DSSI and LADSPA support for Linux, than a good working VST,
VSTi support or any support for LV2, even if LV2 is native Linux.

I'm using Qtractor and I guess it comes without LV2 support:

"Qtractor 0.4.2.1376

  Build target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: release

  JACK Audio Connection Kit support . . . . . . . .: yes
  ALSA MIDI Sequencer support . . . . . . . . . . .: yes
  General audio file support (libsndfile) . . . . .: yes
  Ogg Vorbis audio file support (libvorbis) . . . .: yes
  MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 file support (libmad) . . . .: yes
  Sample-rate conversion support (libsamplerate) . .: yes
  Pitch-shifting support (librubberband) . . . . . .: yes
  OSC service support (liblo) . . . . . . . . . . .: yes
  IEEE 32bit float optimizations . . . . . . . . . .: yes
  SSE optimization support (x86) . . . . . . . . . .: yes
  LADSPA Plug-in support . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: yes
  DSSI Plug-in support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: yes
  VST Plug-in support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: yes

  XInitThreads() support (DANGEROUS) . . . . . . . .: no

  Gradient eye-candy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: yes
  Debugger stack-trace (gdb) . . . . . . . . . . . .: no

  Install prefix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: /usr/local"
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Received on Thu Sep 3 16:15:01 2009