On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:08:29AM +0000, 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. > > 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. > > A very important factor for such a format would definitely be that the major > hosts (commercial, foss or otherwise) for all major platforms would be able > to easily implement support for it and that plugins would be easy to port > between the different platforms. I'm not aware of any DAWs for Windows that > support LV2 or DSSI yet but I could be wrong? There's nothing stopping a > closed source, commecial app vendor adding support for either format is > there? Another factor I see as increasingly important is that the plugin > format should be able to take advantage of OpenCL to take advantage of the > superior processing power of todays GPUs. Quite how we'd convince Steinberg > and co. we need a replacement for VSTi and get them to support an open > standard though is anyones guess :/ I'm kind of curious to see what Fons has got cooking up with his own new plugin architecture. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
