On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 15:45:58 +0200 Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsut...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > As a new release approaches, I think one of the latest threads about > synths, jack (midi) etc. re-prompts the longstanding questions: > > 1. do we want LV2 in Rosegarden? > 2. do we want Jack-MIDI? > > IMHO (and with an updated perspective compared to my opinions in the past): > > 1. I think on the one hand this would be great because LV2 is the > current de-facto standard on Linux and would open up many possibilities > if integrated natively. > The key question, though, is: would it make sense to support LV2 if then > user's aren't able to 'generate' (i.e. save as, say, a WAV file), the > final result of their musical masterpiece made in Rosegarden? > I'm thinking of software like Ardour, Qtractor and LMMS (the latter > notably also not supporting LV2 yet), which are potentially > self-contained in that you add/use plugins, and when done export to a > final audio file. > If Rosegarden were to support LV2 it should also support audio export of > the final result, otherwise it would mostly generate user frustration. > Self-contained in audio is a double-edged sword which easy becomes > obsolete when relying on plugins which will eventually be un-maintained > or become incompatible (this applies also outside the Linux ecosystem - > think RTAS or DirectX). > > 2. jack-midi feels like a higher priority. Why? Because it would allow > to e.g. connect to jack-midi applications like Carla (multi-format > plugin host) or Ardour (to name a couple) and better support modularity > within the current Linux ecosystem where it seems that ALSA Midi is > considered to be deprecated. True there is a2j but that's really a bit > of a work-around. > > My two (user-oriented) cents and would be interesting to hear other > opinions. > > > Lorenzo. As a somewhat south of average user (at 78 I have given up on learning too many new tricks) I hear that Pipewire is poised to deplace pulse AND jack, for whatever that might mean to devs/users (means nothing to me unless it, unlike a fly on the monitor, makes a sound when I stab it with mouse arrow and click on it). _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
