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Excerpts from david's message of 2011-07-02 22:08:02 +0200:

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> Philipp Überbacher wrote:

> > Excerpts from Leigh Dyer's message of 2011-07-02 18:55:07 +0200:

> >> 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.

> >

> > How many commercial hosts are there? There are certainly more free

> > software hosts on Linux.

> >

> >> 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.

> >

> > Both requires porting. I don't dare to judge how much work each case is.

> > There aren't that many native VST plugins, so I guess it's far from

> > simple.

> >

> >> 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.

> >>

> >> Thanks

> >> Leigh

> >

> > 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.

>

> Is LV2 available on Windows & Mac?

>

> If not, and VST wasn't a working option on Linux, then there'd be no

> effort by makers of commercial VSTs for Windows/Mac to make them work on

> Linux. Why do what might be difficult custom work (porting to LV2) for a

> very small set of customers?

The point was that to get native VSTs the windows VSTs need to be ported

too. I really don't know what's easier, someone who's done both might

know.
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