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+
+ > Announcing PawPaw: cross-platform LV2 ports for macOS and Windows
+ On 2021-01-15 by falkTX
+
+ PawPaw
+ is an open-source project that builds and packages cross-platform LV2 audio plugins (among other things, but let's focus on this now).
+
+ It was created out of the need of many open-source developers to easily build their stuff for macOS and Windows,
+ where usually dependencies are involved which need to be built manually.
+ In order to make audio plugins self-contained, these dependencies/libraries need to be built statically,
+ which most packaging projects do not do.
+ Also, most open-source audio plugin projects do not have binaries for macOS or Windows,
+ making it very difficult for users in these platforms to enjoy them.
+
+ That last part is crucial.
+ While on Linux LV2 is king, with so many plugins released as LV2, the same is not true for other platforms.
+ I want to change that, so that the usual excuse "but there are no plugins, we won't bother with LV2" of audio developers can no longer be used.
+ It is the typical circular-dependency problem. There are no hosts because there are no plugins and vice-versa.
+ Hopefully with a big set of plugins, the situation will change.
+
+ For the first release of PawPaw we have the following LV2 plugins: (note some of these are big collections of many plugins themselves) +
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+ Every single plugin has automated meta-data validation and runtime testing to make sure they work correctly.
+ The quality of the plugins depends on the respective developer and project of course, but they should be safe from crashes.
+
+ A big question now is "how can I use them?".
+ At this moment, from what I am aware, only Ardour/ Mixbus and Carla support LV2 plugins on these platforms.
+ Some applications like Audacity, Kushview Element and Mixxx support LV2, but usually only in Linux builds.
+ Carla works as a VST2 plugin, so you can use it as a way to bridge these to regular hosts, but obviously not ideal.
+ But hey, one step at a time. We have a few more LV2 plugins now on these platforms, and moving forward the list is only going to grow.
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+ You can find the macOS and Windows installers at
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+ https://github.com/DISTRHO/PawPaw/releases.
+ For macOS, 10.12 is required. These are universal builds that already support x64 and arm64 combined.
+ For Windows, Windows 7 or superior is recommended, and a CPU capable of doing SSE2 operations is required.
+
+ For the future, I plan to rework the DISTRHO website so it contains all these details.
+ Mainly so that it is a better overall presentation.
+ And of course more plugins, though pull-requests are also very welcome for those.
+ Carla is slowly in the process of using PawPaw for automated release builds, more on that at a later time.
+
+ > A small set of plugin updates
+ On 2021-01-15 by falkTX
+
+ Hello hello, it is release day again!
+ Keeping up with the cool people, here is a set of plugin updates for the
+ Quarterly Release Pact.
+
+ Do note that these are all source-only releases. For binaries, use your Linux distribution packages or the
+ PawPaw project.
+ With that said, let's begin...
+
+ DISTRHO-Ports is a set of GNU/Linux and LV2 ports, imported into the codebase for easy packaging, maintaince and all that.
+ This is a bug-fix release, getting the project ready for cross-platform builds and automated validation/testing.
+ Changelog:
+
+ DIE-Plugins is a collection of plugins imported into the DISTRHO project for easy packaging.
+ Currently has only Ardour (Community Effect) plugins, mainly so you no longer need to build the entire Ardour codebase to get these plugins.
+ Changelog:
+
+ DPF-Plugins is a collection of DPF-based plugins, including Kars, MVerb and Nekobi.
+ This is yet another bug-fix release, tagging a release before a big DPF overhaul planned for next month.
+ Changelog:
+
DPF:
+Kars:
+Nekobi:
++ More releases coming soon, stay tuned! +
+ +
> Another DISTRHO-Ports update
On 2020-12-28 by falkTX