Continued again… #UbuntuStudio 24.04, preliminary result…

It's not all about Ubuntu Studio or #Linux.

In general, #audioProduction on any computer has the deficiency that your project depends on many little plugins, which again depend on many other things provided by your OS.

Both #Calf and #IRlv2 use libraries that are incompatible now with Ardour 8.6.x on Ubuntu 24.04. – one problem being GTK2 apparently, so the GUI code is the trouble as it also is with WindowsVSTs on Linux.

A friend of mine recently migrated to later versions of #Cubase, #Windows, and #Voxengo Plugins… when loading his old project, all Voxengo plugins had gone. So he re-inserted them, losing all settings. He ended up writing down the settings on paper on his old computer, then re-constructing the project on his new machine. (Btw., I think #Ardour handles missing plugins in a better way.)

Computers suck giving you stable audio production environments – in different ways, depending on your OS.

Continued… #UbuntuStudio 24.04, preliminary result of migrating from Kubuntu 18.04 #Linux + #kxstudio overlays:

So #Calf audio plugins are practically dead by now. Most of them didn't sound good anyways, but their analyzer was useful and the delay was good. Exciter plugins for Linux? One other is payware, and yet another one is Snake Oil (Airwindows… fails to explain on his webpage what actually is happening except for it's all sounding so much geiler)

IR.lv2 ever has been half-dead but it actually was a very great convolution reverb plugin allowing for changes to the impulse response easily and with an UI that made sense.. Can't load that one any more.

Now what's working and that didn't work on earlier systems is #LinuxStudioPlugins.

They have an IR convolver, an „artistic delay“ etc. – I don't like their UI feel too much but they do the job. I haven't figured out how the Impulse Reverb works with the praised 4-channel files from the #BricastiM7.

Glad that the TAL Dub Delay (payware) still works.