I think this is a great idea !!!
We are still discovering new things about lv2 - see the recent window
size problem with sfizz.
The lv2 development depends a lot on testing different plugins.
Chuck Elliot wrote about some unusable plugins. I would like to know
which ones and what the problems are.
It may mean a lot of work for me - but it would really improve the lv2
capability.
Philip
On 24/09/2025 08:56, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
Hi all,
Rosegarden now has LV2 support and with recent versions this is not
beta any more.
I think that this was a major result and happened (actually quite
quickly) thanks to lots of work and dedication by Philip and Ted (and
maybe others, sorry if I missed anyone!).
But while LV2 support really pushed Rosegarden's possibility as a
music creation software, we know that LV2 and plugins in general are
really hard to debug because of the variety and combinations of UI,
design etc. it's essentially like having potentially tens of different
'software' of their own, besides the standard (LV2 in this case).
On top of that we now also have Wayland which is sort-of-mature now
but most LV2 are still using X11. Then different desktop environments,
screen sizes, distributions, etc. etc.
Some plugins (e.g. sfizz) rely on loading external files into the
plugin... an additional layer of complxity.
I'm wondering if as a user community we could push a testing effort
which I've nicknamed "hackathon" maybe a bit inappropriately because
the idea could be to really try and test and report as much as
possible, having a variety of distributions, configurations,
environments and, of course, plugins... Including (ideally) commercial
ones if anyone is using them.
As a positive side-effect the positive outcomes and maybe even some
demos / tutorials could come out of it (e.g. making a whole song just
with Rosegarden + plugins 'in the box'...)
Does it sound like an interesting idea? Too crazy? Not really worth it?
I have no idea of how this could be practically set-up but if there is
interest we can maybe discuss it...
As a long-time Rosegarden user / tester / ... I'm really happy of some
of the recent updates Rosegarden got and the care it's receiving by
developers so I think this could be a nice community effort to help in
this moment :-)
Lorenzo
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