falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

@Di4na @marcan@treehouse.systems I am glad they did, and hope we get to keep X11 things working for a while, because we are still in a transition period.

It is nice to want things to move along, but we need to provide a path for that to happen that doesn't involve having to deal with broken things.

Users are complaining for a reason, for as much as devs have been saying to "move to wayland!", they cannot do that when the tools they rely on do not work.

@Di4na @marcan@treehouse.systems err people do want X11, myself included. your questions was badly phrased..

And I expect people to be a bit more altruistic, then we wouldn't even need to discuss this so much.

Users often do not understand what is involved in maintaining such software. It is very complex matter, we should not blame the users.
Sometimes they say things that are misguided, it is up to us to correct them.

Software devs are the ones that know what is involved, but often still refuse to contribute

@marcan@treehouse.systems this could easily be said about many software projects.
some folks wants stuff to work nice and stable, but do not want to put in the work themselves to help make it so.

with how many developers there are out there, it is a bit sad that so few (sometimes none) volunteer to take care of base infrastructure.

perhaps the result of a systemic problem.
X11/Wayland just being one of critical pieces involved. the same story to be repeated soon with other critical system libraries.

@MuSociety@musicians.today so this whole page is a literal 1:1 copy&paste of https://kx.studio/Applications:Carla ?

Even has some old "this is work in progress come back soon" from 5 years ago...

To be quite honest, this copy&paste is not appreciated.
it adds absolutely nothing.

This feels like site scrapping just fill up yours with content and make it feel more complete. it is akin to spammy auto-generated sites that just scrape everything online and put ads on top.

Please do better.

Perks of using Ubuntu and snaps: everytime you boot up your system and open a web browser, get a notification asking you to close it again 🤦‍♂️

Doing the automatic-audio-plugin-scanner code in Carla now, as needed for the "plugins in OBS" project.

It nicely trickles down to other projects that also use Carla for their plugin hosting.
Screenshot shows https://github.com/DISTRHO/Ildaeil happily listing and hosting VST2 plugins ☀️

So next Ildaeil release will have even more format-to-format capabilities!
VSTs in LV2 hosts? no problem!
CLAPs in VST hosts? sure thing!
throw VST3 too while at it, why not.

Apparently I am in the top 10 "most active GitHub users in Portugal"

https://commits.top/portugal.html

...is this good or bad? maybe a sign I should go out more 😅

Leo Gibson does an introduction and review of the MOD + AIDA-X plugin, nice to see some recognition!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B591YrX44io

@odo I am only there on friday, oh well.
thanks for the check on the videos, those are now fixed.

Anyone going to superbooth in Berlin next week?

I should be there on 12th (Friday) for https://www.superbooth.com/en/messe-and-exhibitors/exhibitors/mod-audio.html

and it should work on Chrome now too!

on the topic of running things on the browser, who wants some LV2 plugins?
let's say in between some of them ZynAddSubFX? 😱

No UI for now, just the engine and a selection of presets, playable through WebMIDI.
Some throw an exception when loaded, but most seem to work
Also I need to handle MIDI timing properly...

That said:
1. Load https://ildaeil.kx.studio/ in Firefox (Chrome not supported)
2. Select ZynAddSubFX, press "Load Plugin"
3. Press "Enable MIDI"
4. Select a preset and play

Enjoy? 😅

Cardinal on the web randomly got some attention via
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35794758

So I wonder how many people out there still do not know this is a thing...
The full Cardinal (basically a more free version of VCV Rack, with all modules built-in) running directly on a web browser at https://cardinal.kx.studio/

I recently updated it so that on browsers that dont support wasm-simd (webkit-based ones like Safari) will load a slower but still compatible variant.
So in theory it works under iOS, didnt test.

Coming soon, Carla ❤️ OBS