Re: [LAU] Time of music in a seqennser

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Paul Davis schrieb:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 22:17 +0100, Hartmut Noack wrote:
>
>> But to have proprietary VST-plugins running perfectly well on Linux will
>> not help promoting the development of free software for Linux like LV2
>> or AMS.
>
> I respectfully disagree. If it was possible to run arbitrary win32/x86
> VST's on linux/x86 with no hassle, there would very little barrier to
> people moving to linux for their audio needs. plugins are often the
> blocking issue to this migration, not host applications. like it or not,
> the plugins exist, and they are not appearing for linux at anything
> close to a sufficient rate to justify any active audio users migrating
> at present.

Yeah - true again. Saying goodbye to their VST-plugins is the thing
experienced Win/Mac-users abhor the most. So it would help to draw
people to Linux if they could run their DLLs whithout hassle.

Still I think that too much attention and efforts are focussed towards
making VST-DLLs run in Linux and too little towards free, native solutions.

> like it or not,
> the plugins exist, and they are not appearing for linux at anything
> close to a sufficient rate to justify any active audio users migrating
> at present.

Many that work with Linux have only a brief look at LADSPA-plugins and
apps like AMS or Specimen - they test it for 2-3h then they say "OK so
what - I want my NI-DLLs back." It is true, that LADSPA does not have
the same powers in store as the VST-world but not only the plugins that
are there are used as they could be used. It is quite funny to see
someone who writes software in a modular system and does not understand,
that 5-6 simple LADSPA-plugins can be used as modules to build something
new, that is powerful and flexible.

So one might call me a zelot - I am with Linux because it is GNU. And I
dislike to have interactive applications running, that do not fit into
the free ecosystem of GNU/Linux. So I think solutions like LV2 need much
more attention then they get now.

best regs

HZN

sorry Paul for sending this twice - mixed up the adresses :-)
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Received on Fri Mar 14 16:15:02 2008