Excerpts from James Stone's message of 2011-07-02 22:34:10 +0200: > > 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. > > > > I wonder if commercial plugin manufacturers think LV2 (if they know of > it) is too much of a risk from submarine patents and the like: if they > license VST, they can stand behind Steinberg in the case of any legal > action, whereas if they implement their plugins in LV2, they have to > stand on their own?? > > Not sure how much basis in fact this line of thinking has, but I > wouldn't be surprised if it is behind some companies seeming > reluctance to embrace LV2.. On the other hand it could just be > laziness and inertia - I imagine if the plugin is already written for > VST in windows, it is considerably less work to port the VST to linux > as native VST rather than recode it for LV2. > > J I'm not a lawyer and am not sure about the software patent situation, but I really doubt this is relevant here. There are horrible patent wars surrounding codecs, but I doubt the same is true for plugin standards because I doubt they contain anything new. Again, I don't know what's more work, porting to native VST or LV2. Both has been done and there isn't exactly a flood of either kind of ports. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
