-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 :-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH2n7B1Aecwva1SWMRAskPAJ477gi10tuC0OCmkTWFQByGce/KBgCeNvQH svYib8zQgHD7egMoRwqxU8M= =qCmH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
