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

[Rui N. C. <rn...@rn...>]

On 7/7/22 21:54, Frank Neumann wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

hi Frank,

first, clap plugins must always go into 
~/.clap:/usr/local/lib/clap:/usr/lib/clap, perhaps you better create a 
symlink from ~/.clap/whatever.clap -> whatever-else-maybe-vst3.so, 
assuming the later includes clap plugin entry points.

on the other account, there's none advantages in qtractor and CLAP re. 
multi-core whatsoever: qtractor/jack still runs as single client or 
realtime processing thread and will keep that way forever more

so sorry if you thought or otherwise sold to the clap/u-he/bitwig 
marketing :)

cheers
-- 
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela
rn...@rn...