Tag Archive for 'lv2'

On VST, WINE and all

The epic battle against Focusrite Plugin Suite is over and I’m defeated. The problem turns out to be in the license registration prompt that simply refuses to load under WINE, whether you load it in Ableton Live or in Ardour: any signal simply gets bypassed until the plugins are registered. There probably is some WINE conspiracy in support for native effects/instruments SDK over VST :)
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Calf is awesome

I’ve been using Calf pack of DSSI/LV2 audio plug-ins and instruments for a while now (vintage delay is my fav), so since I’m used to bleeding edge software I decided to clone its git repo and see what they’ve been cooking for the next release.

Calf Organ DSSI

After so many years of geeky interfaces native effects on Linux don’t look like complete crap anymore :)

The upcoming version will also feature several equalizers (already in git), and the very next thing I’m going to do is build it with –enable-experimental to enable “50 small LV2 plug-ins made specifically with modular hosts in mind”. Jeez, you free software developers just don’t seem to be able to stop making us excited recently :)