Re: LV2 'hackathon' or similar?

chuck elliot <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:49:46 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.audio.rosegarden.user
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I've experienced mixed results using plugins, including LV2, some good, 
some unusable

and that can be a bit discouraging so I would be happy to contribute to 
such an effort

should it happen...

Regards,

Chuck


On 24/09/2025 07:56, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Rosegarden now has LV2 support and with recent versions this is not 
> beta any more.
>
> I think that this was a major result and happened (actually quite 
> quickly) thanks to lots of work and dedication by Philip and Ted (and 
> maybe others, sorry if I missed anyone!).
>
> But while LV2 support really pushed Rosegarden's possibility as a 
> music creation software, we know that LV2 and plugins in general are 
> really hard to debug because of the variety and combinations of UI, 
> design etc. it's essentially like having potentially tens of different 
> 'software' of their own, besides the standard (LV2 in this case).
>
> On top of that we now also have Wayland which is sort-of-mature now 
> but most LV2 are still using X11. Then different desktop environments, 
> screen sizes, distributions, etc. etc.
>
> Some plugins (e.g. sfizz) rely on loading external files into the 
> plugin... an additional layer of complxity.
>
> I'm wondering if as a user community we could push a testing effort 
> which I've nicknamed "hackathon" maybe a bit inappropriately because 
> the idea could be to really try and test and report as much as 
> possible, having a variety of distributions, configurations, 
> environments and, of course, plugins... Including (ideally) commercial 
> ones if anyone is using them.
>
> As a positive side-effect the positive outcomes and maybe even some 
> demos / tutorials could come out of it (e.g. making a whole song just 
> with Rosegarden + plugins 'in the box'...)
>
> Does it sound like an interesting idea? Too crazy? Not really worth it?
>
> I have no idea of how this could be practically set-up but if there is 
> interest we can maybe discuss it...
>
> As a long-time Rosegarden user / tester / ... I'm really happy of some 
> of the recent updates Rosegarden got and the care it's receiving by 
> developers so I think this could be a nice community effort to help in 
> this moment :-)
>
> Lorenzo
>
>
>
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