On 01/14/2011 11:08 AM, allcoms wrote: > Hi list, > > I suppose I could've just addressed this to drobilla and got most of my > questions answered but it concerns us all really as even if A3 and qtractor > were to achieve feature parity with Cubase and buds tomorrow (obviously I'm > stretching things a bit there) we still wouldn't see vast droves switching > to Linux DAWs for a few reasons such as hardware support, people liking what > they know etc. but most importantly the dearth of quality native plugins > available for Linux seems to be a primary showstopper for most. > Is that necessarily bad? Maybe there is a dearth of quality native plugins, but I'm fine with the plugins that are available currently. And I'm happy I don't have to make up my mind which plugins to choose from the thousands of plugins available if I would use a proprietary OS. > DSSI has a few things coded for it but not much and its still very early > days for LV2 so the open plugin format of the future is still anyones game > and it may not necessarily be either of those that succeeds and gets widely > used of course. I think a couple of VSTs have been ported over to LV2 but > I'm not aware of any that have been ported to DSSI and I think that the ease > in doing so is quite an important factor in the success of any such format, > if not the be-all and end-all. If anyone here has any experience with coding > and/or porting VSTis - what is currently lacking from LV2 or DSSI that could > potentially cause problems for someone wanting to port their big beefy synth > or snazzy FX from VSTi to LV2 or DSSI? I already know about the incomplete > persist LV2 extension but I'm pretty sure that won't be the only thing > needing work. > Don't forget native Linux VST's, their number is steadily growing also. I think I have about 60 to 70 of those sitting on my harddrive. Unfortunately there are very few hosts. Best, Jeremy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
