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<span style="font-size: 20px">> Carla 2.0 development progress report</span><br/> |
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On <i>2013-12-17</i> by<i> falkTX</i> |
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This is a progress report for the new Carla, version 2.0.<br/> |
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It will take a while to get a release ready, but there are already a few things done and stuff to show. |
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<h3>Backend</h3> |
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First, <b>the backend is being rewritten to not use any system toolkit</b>.<br/> |
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In 1.x series I've used Qt4 to handle graphics, but that might be a problem soon with Qt5 (cannot mix Qt4 and Qt5 stuff together).<br/> |
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Plus I want the Carla backend to be toolkit agnostic, so that in the future it may be re-usable for others no matter what their main toolkit is.<br/> |
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The main backend header files are now ANSI C compatible, thus increasing the chances of re-usability (as some Linux developers have a weird aversion to C++...). |
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Because Qt is no longer used in the backend code, I needed something else to handle graphics and other advanced stuff - Juce was selected for this.<br/> |
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Juce is a C++ framework focused on audio applications and plugins, which suits Carla nicely.<br/> |
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There's a lot of useful things inside it that will make developing new features much easier (like the internal patchbay mode).<br/> |
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Other things like AU and VST3 plugin hosting will be possible too thanks to Juce, although they are not relevant to Linux. |
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Loading <b>Carla as a plugin</b> is also being worked on.<br/> |
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There target two main targets with this: |
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<li>Load entire Carla projects - rack or patchbay - as a single plugin in the graph (avoiding clutter);</li> |
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<li>Carla itself as an LV2 plugin;</li> |
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If you been following the LinuxMusicians forums you know that internal Carla plugins are already available as LV2 plugins (yes, that includes zynaddsubfx-lv2!).<br/> |
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Once the Carla internal plugin work is complete, you automatically get an LV2 version of it as well! :D |
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<h3>Front-end</h3> |
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There has been a few changes on the UI side as well.<br/> |
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For example, the <b>plugin edit dialog</b> now looks like this: |
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<img src="/screenshots/news/carla-2.0-report_edit-dialog.png" alt=""/> |
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As seen the image, the user will be able to use "Stereo Balance" or "Mono Panning".<br/> |
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The new layout also allows for a much <b>smaller window size</b>.<br/> |
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Lastly, there's plans to bring <b>custom skins to plugin "slots"</b>, in a similar way to Reason.<br/> |
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This is something I still have to investigate to find the best possible way to do it.<br/> |
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It should be expandable so that random plugins can also use skins, probably via a new LV2 extension.<br/> |
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More on this later. |
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That's all for now.<br/> |
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Soon there will be a new DISTRHO release, so stay tuned! |
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<span style="font-size: 20px">> New releases and future plans</span><br/> |
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On <i>2013-11-27</i> by<i> falkTX</i> |
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