falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com
And here we go, tagged Cardinal 22.02, the first official stable release.
Checkout https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=cardinal-2202-is-now-released for the announcement and small details about the project.
Have fun!
With HaikuOS Xlibe compat thing we can use some stock X11 code directly in Haiku, nice!
glx doesn't work yet, but cairo stuff does.
Slowly we get a few audio plugin GUIs to work 🚀 🚀 🚀
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Now on the blog: a January Activity & Contract Report, with some more details about the newly-available GIMP and Inkscape. https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2022-02-05_haiku_activity_contract_report_january_2022/
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Virtual Playing Orchestra is using sources under mixed licenses - some require you to credit the authors in your music or use a specific license for it.
VPO author suggests that your can use the instruments without attribution. You can't. That'd be in violation of the sample author's copyright.
Instead, use VSCO - these are clearly CC0 licensed instruments that are legally safe to use without violating anybody's rights.
More info here:
https://hilbricht.net/foss-sampled-instruments.html
I need opinions/suggested for Cardinal's short description.
Something like...
"A Eurorack-style virtual modular synthesis toolkit" or "modular synthesizer audio plugin"
don't like either of them tbh.
it's hard to make a nice and short description that describes it well enough.
Let me know if you got any suggestions you think are good.
Thanks!
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Weekly-ish recap is out: https://librearts.org/2022/02/week-recap-7-feb-2021/
@inkscape 1.2 goes alpha, Weston gets basic color management support, new open movie project by BlenderStudio announced, new releases of @Blender, BlenderBIM, Ossia Score, Mixxx, Shotcut, PipeWire, and more
Featured artwork by Sergey Samarskiy, made with
@krita
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Do you use your real name on fedi? Boosts appreciated for reach. 
Perks of using mono-spaced in a text editor/field: you can make art 🦉 🐈
What about a video player in your modular Rack?
Actually, this is me testing embedding external stuff into Cardinal, MPV just provides a great testcase for it. Plus it ends up being a little bit useful, so win-win.
More VST3 shenanigans.
Ask Steinberg "Can we create VST3 implementations for other languages and license that under the original VST3 SDK license?"
Summarizing their response:
"Oh, yeah, we didn't think of that, let's explicitly prohibit porting to different languages even though we can't legally prevent you from doing so."
What a nice way to deal with a plugin **standard**. 🐒 🐒 🐒
One more done, only MIDI-Map and MIDI-Gate to go, and the replacement of Rack core modules in Cardinal will be complete.
We are almost at the point where all license stuff is 100% clean, an a kinda "RC" status can de declared.
Soon soon.
Somehow missed that Drew wrote about discord on his blog.
https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html
If you missed it too, consider giving it a quick read.
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"I didn't join the resistance because none of my friends were in it"
Interesting that we can keep existing background by setting OpenGL clear color as full transparency.
Result is quite cool, even if for a toy, but somehow looks good and professional (to me at least anyway).
Sometimes I hate technology.
Look at this shit https://www.qt.io/blog/monetizing-cross-platform-use-cases-faster-and-easier-with-qt-digital-advertising-platform
I am ashamed to use Qt in some of my applications.
Sorry for that.
In order to avoid any potential issues I removed the "even a little slightly problematic" modules from Cardinal temporarily, so any new patches done with it now are safe to use from now on (so no modules-were-removed surprises possible)
Meanwhile the core modules, due to VCV branding and CC-ND restriction, are being slowly replaced by Cardinal counterparts.
Still WIP and yeah they look boring, but should be good enough for a first release. Getting things moving is the first step.
VST3 handling in hosts continues to amaze me.
Seems FLStudio doesn't support VST3 plugins without custom GUI. The GUI ends up fully empty [pic1]
That arrow down is not to show/hide the GUI, but to access some options. some trickery then allows to change parameters on the sidebar panel. [pic2]
[pic3] shows how it is supposed to look like, using VST2 format.
Have we reach the point where nobody cares about plugins without GUIs, so much they wont even implement support for it? wow
On the topic of crypto and NFTs, "Folding Ideas" has a great and extensive video essay about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
Caring about proper licensing is a pain sometimes.
But such is life if you want to get your stuff packaged in the most common Linux distros.
This is the situation on Cardinal so far:
https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/blob/main/doc/LICENSES.md#artwork--panel-licenses
The non-commercial clause of many artwork files is a problem for a few distros.
With that said, in due time I believe Cardinal should be at least in ArchLinux and Ubuntu multiverse repos.
Only 25 days till first release!
