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Core is replaced, the family is now complete. 🎉

More VST3 shenanigans.

Ask Steinberg "Can we create VST3 implementations for other languages and license that under the original VST3 SDK license?"

Summarizing their response:
"Oh, yeah, we didn't think of that, let's explicitly prohibit porting to different languages even though we can't legally prevent you from doing so."

https://forums.steinberg.net/t/vst3-sdk-c-abi-vs-java-rust-net-etc-libraries-still-rely-on-vst-2-api-solution/201956/4

What a nice way to deal with a plugin **standard**. 🐒 🐒 🐒

One more done, only MIDI-Map and MIDI-Gate to go, and the replacement of Rack core modules in Cardinal will be complete.

We are almost at the point where all license stuff is 100% clean, an a kinda "RC" status can de declared.
Soon soon.

Somehow missed that Drew wrote about discord on his blog.
https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html

If you missed it too, consider giving it a quick read.

Interesting that we can keep existing background by setting OpenGL clear color as full transparency.

Result is quite cool, even if for a toy, but somehow looks good and professional (to me at least anyway).

Sometimes I hate technology.
Look at this shit https://www.qt.io/blog/monetizing-cross-platform-use-cases-faster-and-easier-with-qt-digital-advertising-platform

I am ashamed to use Qt in some of my applications.
Sorry for that.

In order to avoid any potential issues I removed the "even a little slightly problematic" modules from Cardinal temporarily, so any new patches done with it now are safe to use from now on (so no modules-were-removed surprises possible)

Meanwhile the core modules, due to VCV branding and CC-ND restriction, are being slowly replaced by Cardinal counterparts.
Still WIP and yeah they look boring, but should be good enough for a first release. Getting things moving is the first step.

VST3 handling in hosts continues to amaze me.

Seems FLStudio doesn't support VST3 plugins without custom GUI. The GUI ends up fully empty [pic1]

That arrow down is not to show/hide the GUI, but to access some options. some trickery then allows to change parameters on the sidebar panel. [pic2]

[pic3] shows how it is supposed to look like, using VST2 format.

Have we reach the point where nobody cares about plugins without GUIs, so much they wont even implement support for it? wow

On the topic of crypto and NFTs, "Folding Ideas" has a great and extensive video essay about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

Caring about proper licensing is a pain sometimes.
But such is life if you want to get your stuff packaged in the most common Linux distros.

This is the situation on Cardinal so far:
https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/blob/main/doc/LICENSES.md#artwork--panel-licenses

The non-commercial clause of many artwork files is a problem for a few distros.
With that said, in due time I believe Cardinal should be at least in ArchLinux and Ubuntu multiverse repos.

Only 25 days till first release!

Some good news for a change.
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/google-analytics/

1 day late, but DPF-Plugins has its own release today too.
See https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=dpf-plugins-v15-released

Carla and Ildaeil still need a release, but the JACK stuff took a lot of time so these last ones are late. Still coming soon though.

It is release day again!

We got not 1, not 2, but 3 JACK related releases!

https://jackaudio.org/news/2022/01/15/jack1-v01260-and-jack2-v1920-releases.html
https://jackaudio.org/news/2022/01/15/jack-example-tools-release-1.html

🚀 🚀 🚀

More FOSS drama, @rghvdberg@sonomu.club reset that counter again!

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/

Green is the best color, when you get green you know you are good 💚

All builds green, let's go 🚀
https://github.com/DISTRHO/PawPaw/actions/runs/1680221527

(Just silly things to ignore, nevermind me, was just a pain to get all the builds working. Go green!)

It is the end of another month, and year too!
Time for one of those reports.
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=kxstudio-monthly-report-november-december-2021

Want to write about current and future plans too, another day.

Happy new year! 🎉