Re: [Qtractor-devel] [ANN] Qtractor 0.9.27 - An Early-Summer'22 Release

[Frank N. <bea...@we...>]

Hi Rui and list,

>    Qtractor 0.9.27 (early-summer'22) is out!
>
> Change-log:
> - CLAP [9] plug-in host support introduced. (EXPERIMENTAL)

Wow, that was fast! :-)

I just gave it a quick try with a plugin from TAL (ToguAudioLine), TAL U-NO LX,
for which also just now first CLAP binaries became available:

https://tal-software.com/products/tal-u-no-lx

The plugin path dialog in Qtractor suggests to use e.g. ~/.vst3 for CLAP
plugins, so I put the .clap file there, but I guess this might still change
in the future? I expected ~/.clap/.

The first scanning of the plugin folder by Qtractor took a long time (like,
2 minutes?), but then U-NO LX appeared in the list as the first and only plugin
of this type, and least it works and behaves like the .vst and .vst3 variants.
Nice :-).
Can we already expect to experience some of the advantages of CLAP in Qtractor,
like better usage of multi-core systems, or would this require changes in JACK's
architecture?

Thanks&Greetings,
Frank