falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

@wonshu all of them, since I am using DPF for this.
I got most of the work needed for it from my work in https://github.com/moddevices/mod-desktop, the only missing part is being able to send&receive data from the DSP side. Once that works nothing stop us from using web tech for plugins UIs in DPF.

Using a web browser view as an audio plugin UI allows for some very weird interactions... 😅

@nielso @x42 @PaulDavisTheFirst wine breaks quite often when it comes to windows vsts, because we rely on winegcc/winelib to set up a wine <-> linux communication.

it is not windows tools talking with other windows tools, it is windows tools talking to native linux tools and vice-versa.
involves a bit of wine internals which can change with time.

the best possible advice I can give is: if you have a working wine version, dont update! and stay away from wine-staging for audio plugins

@x42 I see the need for this on systems still running current stable Debian but wanting an updated Ardour. It gives a bit more time for people to move from it, rather than just removing the UI support outright.

but also, it is fun :)
I already had all pieces for UI bridging and IPC in place in other tools, so making this was quite quick.
and potentially serves as a way to allow other kinds of UI bridging - think webkit that relies on gtk3 or QtWebEngine - but for LV2 UIs...

@x42 for legacy reasons basically.

the lack of UIs for a few plugins on recent updates has been quite painful for some users.

this UI stuff is out-of-process so it should be safe to use. we lose the instance-access parts, but I always disliked UIs and DSP in the same process anyhow.

also got a few more working now...

@snailerotica and I think I know why the 2nd image is rendered wrong, my theory is because of bad image down-scaling.

I can see the artifacts from a fast but bad resizing, where the algorithm just skips pixels to match the target size.

Seems to me the image has exactly the black lines on the spots where this algorithm would show a pixel/line. A proper one would do an average filter so each downscaled pixel takes into account surrounding pixels too.

@snailerotica oh wow you found something I was not expecting. the image renders incorrectly for you very odd 🤔

as to what shouldn't be working, let's say at some point Ardour removed support for gtk-based plugin UIs 😉

Let's play a little game...

What is working in this picture that shouldn't? Can you tell?

New Cardinal 24.04 release is here

Focuses on updating the base VCV Rack 2.4 and adds quite a few new modules, bringing the module count to 1193.

Changelog and downloads at https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/releases/tag/24.04

I updated the web version too, so you can try it directly in your browser by visiting https://cardinal.kx.studio/live

Have fun! ☀️

@graves501 @amadeus if you have linux experience already it is not that complex, but it is also not that simple as for mac and windows.

first we have the dependencies, vstgui uses some stuff that is not guaranteed to be on every distro (specially the minor libxcb packages)
you might need to build some of those deps statically.

then some of the linux features are missing or broken, I recall there being issues with fonts

https://github.com/sfztools/sfizz-ui makes use of vstgui so worth to try/test that

@IAmDannyBoling @april seems more work to me to make a screenshot and upload it vs just sharing the link to the article.

I do not understand the trend of wanting to just show an image of the article. why give the extra work to anyone interested on reading more?
Are we just assuming people will care about the headlines and nothing else?

Honestly feels like a very bad habit, that I hope doesn't spread on mastodon

@april it is now, but not when someone boosts this a few days later. it is also good practice to link directly to the sources

@april can we get a link to the article instead of a picture of it please?