On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 10:31 -0800, Len Ovens wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2019, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > > > The entire problem with the calf plugins stems from bad packaging > > of > > the calf-ladspa plugins, which comes in the lmms package and was > > never > > meant to be exposed to the rest of th esystem. bacically, Ardour > > will
> Not true. Only one of the problems comes from bad packaging. There > are > others. Some people find the DSP problems artistic though I can't > imagine > anyone finding 1000db outputs artisitic (or helpful to ones > speakers). Is there a bug report for this? I couldn't find one. > > So DSP > aside, these plugins even when properly packaged, do sometimes cause > crashes in combination with other plugins which use the same GUI lib > but > different version (gtk2 vs gtk3). My understanding is that the Calf > team > is working on a GUI toolkit to replace GTK. (GTK or QT should never > be > used as a plugin toolkit and any toolkit used should be compiled in > static) Can confirm: https://github.com/calf-studio-gear/CTK Seems as though Markus has been quite busy lately. There's really quite a combination of problems here, and it is a very touchy subject on both sides. Either way, I feel as though remove Calf altogether and removing it from the Audio Handbook is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Erich -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
