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On 07/02/2011 06:55 PM, Leigh Dyer wrote:

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> On 07/03/2011 02:24 AM, rosea grammostola wrote:

>>

>> They should release a LV2 version instead imho. LV2 is much better

>> supported on Linux then VST. LV2 is ready for it...

>

> I'm not sure that LV2 is really that much better supported -- it has

> better support in open-source apps (notably Ardour 3), but Renoise

> apparently has very solid native VST support.

>

> I'd love to have an LV2 Pianoteq, but being realistic, I know that

> there's a good chance that it won't happen. I'm sure it's a lot of

> extra work to implement support for a new plugin format, compared to

> simply porting the existing VST code to a new platform.

I wonder if it's true that it is hard to write a LV2 plugin, if you have

a standalone and VST version already. They asked about a possible way to

'convert' a VST to a LV2 plugin, but iirc David Robillard was not very

enthusiastic about it. And he might have a point, VST is the ugly here,

not LV2. On the other hand, it questionable whether this is the best

strategy to make Linux as good as it can be as platform for proaudio. I

am very happy having Pianoteq for Linux, it makes Linux more valuable

for me as a platform for music production and it would we very hard to

come up with something like Pianoteq as a community and this is true for

other stuff.

>

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> If we want to encourage more commercial developers to bring their

> Windows/OS X VST plugins across to Linux, I think having good native

> VST support in common hosts is going to help. I know that's not a goal

> some would share, but I'm personally in favour of having as many

> options available as possible.

Hmm a selective choice might not be bad if that available selection is

of good quality. I'd rather like to see some more quality LV2 plugins.

But on the other hand, I enjoy my Pianoteq version *very* much as I

mentioned before...

\r

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