<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Robin Gareus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robin@gareus.org" target="_blank">robin@gareus.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":174" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">reality is that (sadly) LV2 will remain in some insignificant corner.<br>
<span class=""></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That's the typical chicken-and-egg problem. Technically, LV2 is clearly superior to VST IMHO, and it's the only truly open cross-platform plugin standard that's capable of satisfying both host and plugin authors' needs. But VST has had a head start and there's an abundance of both free and commercial VST plugins out there, so that's what virtually all DAWs (except Apple's offerings) support. IMHO that's not even the (perceived) quality of the plugins, it's the sheer number that counts. This just won't change over night, so we should get over it. LV2 is still comparatively young, give it some time.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">One crucial missing ingredient, however, is DAW support. The situation *might* begin to change if one of the "big" commercial DAWs (other than Ardour) starts supporting LV2, and also on platforms other than Linux. I'm obviously looking at Bitwig there. They're not that big (yet), but they're doing quite well.<br><br>When that happens, everything that LV2 can do that VST can't, may become an incentive for plugin authors to look into LV2. Like custom inline displays for mixer strips. ;-) I don't care whether that's better done on the host or the plugin side technically. Plugin writers just love extra gimmicks like that, and there's nothing bad about that if they're actually doing something useful IMHO.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Albert<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dr. Albert Gr"af<br>Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany<br>Email: <a href="mailto:aggraef@gmail.com" target="_blank">aggraef@gmail.com</a><br>WWW: <a href="https://plus.google.com/+AlbertGraef" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/+AlbertGraef</a></div></div>
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