Re: lv2fil

[Jaromír Mikeš]

> Od:  <adi at drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>

> > > If someone will test it should works with lv2rack (part of zynjacku)
> > > and hopefully with Ardour 2.8.1 (surely not 2.8)  
> > 
> > I tested it with ardour-2.8. This only gives the LADSPA version of the
> > plugin, not the LV2 gui.
> > 
> > Which directly leads to the question: why do we still have ardour-2.8,
> > ardour-2.8.1 has already been released.
> 
> In the meantime, I've updated our git repository to ardour-2.8.2.
> However, that's not enough, this version still lacks the external UI
> extension.
> 
> I've added the corresponding patch, so now the version in the git
> repository is (theoretically) capable of running LV2fil as an LV2 plugin.
> 
> And it really is. I have the lv2fil in ardour. Note that lv2fil-2.0
> needs pyliblo. Here's the conversation:
> 
> 10:58 < adi> I just tried your external-UI patch for ardour with lv2fil. When I
> 
>              try to open the GUI, everything hangs at 100%.
> 10:58 < adi> Is it normal? ;)
> 10:58 < adi> (100% CPU consumption)
> 11:00 < nedko> adi: try the git version of lv2fil. chances are that you dont 
>                have pyliblo and the released version has not detection for this
> 11:00 < nedko> http://nedko.arnaudov.name/git/cgit.cgi/lv2fil/
> 11:04 < nedko> adi: 
> http://nedko.arnaudov.name/git/cgit.cgi/lv2fil/commit/?id=7ab299672182b949469981e7707e50e77c8934c5
> 
> 
> 
> Let us wait for lv2fil-2.1 (or whatever the release name will be). Nedko
> wants to implement some improvements before putting out the new release,
> and the external-UI patch probably could use some tweaks.
> 
> What I've been discussing with Nedko (expect this to be fixed, soon):
> 
>   - when removing the plugin from a bus in ardour while the GUI is open,
>     the GUI remains open. It's confusing. Culprit is probably the extUI
>     patch
> 
>   - adjusting the values when running in ardour is jumpy. Probably
>     extUI, too.
> 
>   - master section is not intuitive. The plugin should default to "on",
>     and the switch should be called "bypass".
> 
>   - Having a way to directly set a gain to 0.00dB, i.e. Shift+Leftclick.
> 
> 
> Let's see.

Thanks for testing and investigation ... 

mira