A new open-source audio plug-in format is emerging. As it's being developed in the open with the music software companies and open-source audio developers alike I think it has the potential to unify the landscape, make open-source the standard and introduce unprecedented interoperability between proprietary and libre audio packages, allowing people to easily move to the libre side, as all their expansive plug-ins would "just work!"!
Say hello to CLAP:
@unfa saying development is being done "in the open" is a bit misleading.
In my opinion feature planning and release schedules are part of development, and those are closed off. There is a LOT of discussion not happening in a the public space.
It is still frustrating seeing this fragmentation.
The past and current effort for clap could have gone to improve LV2, but they were not even interested on such discussions in the first place.
@falktx @unfa@mastodon.social Yeah, I guess it could be more open. But anyone can get in touch and join the discussion, so I'd encourage Linux audio developers to do that! I can't say anything useful to DSP programmers, so I'll stay here.
I wish LV2 could rule the world, but since that is not going to happen, maybe CLAP could be the next best thing?
@unfa @unfa isnt LV2 good enough though? as mentioned in other places, there are things LV2 can do that CLAP cannot (and vice-versa, of course). For my own usecases, LV2 is still vastly superior.
LV2 does not need to rule the world, it just needs to work for what it is set out to be. As a plugin format that allows to build plugins and have them loaded in different hosts, LV2 already works quite well.
Whatever stuff is missing, we can add it.
We need more high quality plugins, not formats
