you might want to check out element by kushview, plugin host with lua
capabilities and something like plugdata to get puredata into it ..



On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, 09:59 Lorenzo Sutton, <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm sure this has come up a few times, but...
>
> I still do think that having and LV2 external for Pd (Linux) would be
> really useful for various reasons:
>
> - LV2 has now a nice ecosystem of plugins (both 'instruments' and
> effects) on Linux
> - LV2 non-DAW host landscape on Linux is relatively limited. The most
> usable host is Carla [1] which does have a set of limitations especially
> for more 'dynamic' / 'creative' stuff.
> - there is LADSPA and DSSI support but both are essentially dead /
> frozen by now
> - Pd does have VST support, but VST is a non-free standard and has a
> somewhat more limited ecosystem on Linux [*]
> - Most importantly: mixing Pd's flexibility with Audio (DSP) and/or MIDI
> programming and LV2 capabilities would be great and allow many
> interesting possibilities...
>
> I see there is still this page:
> https://puredata.info/dev/summer-of-code/PluginHostLV2
>
> where LV2 is cited as "the new emerging standard for audio plugins" (sic.)
>
> [*] I'm wondering also if most of the Pd users' community is now on
> non-Linux platforms and therefore just happy to use VST therefore making
> something like LV2 (and by extension Linux) less relevant?
>
> Just thought it would be interesting to re-open this discussion.
>
> Cheers,
> Lorenzo
>
> [1] https://kx.studio/Applications:Carla
>
>
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