Re: [LAU] LV2 synths for Ardour 3?

Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Excerpts from Leigh Dyer's message of 2011-07-02 18:55:07 +0200:
>> On 07/03/2011 02:24 AM, rosea grammostola wrote:
>>> They should release a LV2 version instead imho. LV2 is much better
>>> supported on Linux then VST. LV2 is ready for it...
>> I'm not sure that LV2 is really that much better supported -- it has
>> better support in open-source apps (notably Ardour 3), but Renoise
>> apparently has very solid native VST support.
>
> How many commercial hosts are there? There are certainly more free
> software hosts on Linux.
>
>> I'd love to have an LV2 Pianoteq, but being realistic, I know that
>> there's a good chance that it won't happen. I'm sure it's a lot of extra
>> work to implement support for a new plugin format, compared to simply
>> porting the existing VST code to a new platform.
>
> Both requires porting. I don't dare to judge how much work each case is.
> There aren't that many native VST plugins, so I guess it's far from
> simple.
>
>> If we want to encourage more commercial developers to bring their
>> Windows/OS X VST plugins across to Linux, I think having good native VST
>> support in common hosts is going to help. I know that's not a goal some
>> would share, but I'm personally in favour of having as many options
>> available as possible.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Leigh
>
> Native VST support is a bane. It will drag along the VST license
> troubles indefinitely. In my opinion every work done for native VST is
> work lost for LV2, and it's not like there are a lot of developers
> around.
> At one point native VST might have seemed attractive (VST but more
> stable than non-native, what else is the point of it?), but this
> must have been the time before LV2. DSSI and especially ladspa might
> have been limited in one way or another, but LV2 is potentially superior
> to VST and while there's certainly much that can be done, I doubt that
> it really lacks behind in capabilities even now.
> So in my opinion native VST should be forgotten about as fast as
> possible.

Is LV2 available on Windows & Mac?

If not, and VST wasn't a working option on Linux, then there'd be no
effort by makers of commercial VSTs for Windows/Mac to make them work on
Linux. Why do what might be difficult custom work (porting to LV2) for a
very small set of customers?

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