[Linuxsampler-devel] Possible bug or by design [LV2]

[Jim H. <la...@gm...>]

Hi all,
This is my first post to this mailing list. I recently built the full 
latest version of the LinuxSampler suite for Fedora 41 (RPMs) and it's 
quite impressive having not used LS in a few years. However there is 
something that just doesn't seem right with the LV2 plugin. If QSampler 
is already running (and hosting linuxsampler 2.4.1) loading the LV2 
plugin freezes both Ardour and Mixbus until Qsampler is exited therefore 
also exiting linuxsampler, then Ardour/Mixbus will unfreeze and load the 
LinuxSampler LV2 plugin. I can then load QSampler and everything is 
fine. However, once I exit Ardour/Mixbus, it kills the linuxsampler 
process with it and leaves Qsampler hanging with a "broken pipe".

Loading the LV2 plugin on it's own does not load a linuxsampler 
background process. Yet it kills it upon exiting. This seems odd. Why 
does the plugin not just connect to a running linuxsampler process if 
found and leaves it running upon exiting? Also, why can't the LV2 plugin 
connect to a remote instance of LS? This seems to defeat the purpose of 
having a dedicated remote LinuxSampler server(s) which would be super 
useful.

Thanks,
Jim Hines