There are quite a few “linux audio gurus” supporting LV2. More and more plugins are being ported and there are even some commercial ones out there (LinuxDSP). No death in sight if you ask me. LWN article
taktik, devs, here is a link to a short interesting, current, article on linux plugin formats, in a well respected journal by a well respected linux audio guy, check it out:
bottom line on lv2, it’s had first stable release now, it’s not for exactly the same purpose as dssi, and a flood of opens source and commercial plugins are now using it and the flood is increasing daily. as mentionned in another post lv2 support now in ardour, so another serious linux production tool is supporting it.
it’s really required for linux pro audio support now.
+1(00) for inclusion in renoise please. i am a registered (and pleased) renoise user whose main production platform is linux.
and btw, as also mentionned in that article, it was not a waste of time supporting dssi, it is not being replaced by lv2 and dssi is looking healthy too with a bunch of new and interesting stuff available and in development for it. so taktik, devs, don’t despair on supporting dssi, it was the right thing to do. and so is supporting lv2 now.
I think that LV2 is now mature enough to warrant the devs looking at it again. There are many superb effects and synth plugins available exclusively in LV2 format. The documentation for developers has got a lot better recently too.
I have been looking at programming a synth and lv2 seems much more straightforward (and flexible) than dssi now…
cheers,
sure, workarounds are always an option … no problem with that.
but if i understand correctly, the purpose of this thread in this section of the forum is not about collecting suggestions how to make use of lv2 (despite), but actually collecting suggestions for new features in Renoise (?)
while, from a very strict and conservative point of view, many of the “feature enhancement” suggestions tend to be somewhere between “rather” and “completely” redundant, or beyond the purpose and concept or scope of Renoise …
(not meaning to diss them however, just saying)
– supporting lv2 in linux, to me doesn’t file under “crazy features” but (extended) “basic ability”.
since it’s called “plug-in” and not “plug-around”
heck, for Mac you have both, VST and AU support as well …
[irony]
or why not get rid of VST support in the Windows version altogether and use external plug-in hosts and Jack or Rewire anyway …?!
would make the whole thing slimmer and easier to maintain, I guess
[/irony] sometimes less is more
@dev’s:
maybe we should get allocated a “donate for lv2 button” …?
i understand working for linux is being a gentleman and not being a businessman … very often hardly affordable
but then again, by nature, Linux gets only as good as people happen to make it.
There are more and more LV2-Plugins coming out (zynaddsubfx is currently being ported to lv2 aswell) and it has become the defacto standard for audio plugins on linux.
Is there any chance renoise will support this?