I updated Ardour from 8.12.0 to 9.2. When I try to insert a Calf Equalizer, Ardour crashes and displays the following message in the terminal:
CALF DEBUG: instance 0x5e51a9b48500 data 0x5e51a9aeb3c0
CALF DEBUG: calf 0x7ca1d8d96350 cpi 0x7ca1d8735900
(ardour-9.2.0:81664): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:13:22.494: specified class size for type 'CalfKnob' is smaller than the parent type's 'GtkRange' class size
(process:81664): GLib-CRITICAL (recursed) **: Failed to get RW lock 0x7ca337987c20: Resource deadlock avoided
Aborted (core dumped)
It seems thereâs a problem with GTK. Any ideas on what to do about it? I tried reinstalling/recompiling Calf, but it didnât help. For now, weâll stick with version 8 until it works.
Calf plugins (or rather their GUIs) are no longer supported. They are also about to be removed from various GNU/Linux distros (some have already dropped them).
Good to know, thanks! Then weâll avoid using them in future projects and start new ones with alternatives. LSP comes to mind right away. Maybe you have any other recommendations? I found the Calf plugins pretty useful.
Also x42 (Robin is the developer behind the x42 plugins haha). From what I can tell, LSP and x42 are effectively canonical plugin sets at this point (there are others like SWH as well). Not canonical as in blessed by Ardour, mind you, but rather canonical as in many people use them
Hi,
I changed the stop/play key to F12 but then I wanted to go back to the usual Space and when I wanted to change it again Ardour broke immediately.
There was something else with the other key change I donât remember but the point is that when I press some keys according to myself the program disappears for some reason
You should create a separate topic for that comment.
That said it could be that your window manager uses those same keys for its own purposes and that Ardour doesnât filter the input correctly (I have no idea if Ardour really is able to âhijackâ window manager key bindings).
If you canât get it to work you can always try to rename or manually edit ~/.config/ardour9/ardour-9.2.keys (I guess â9.2â depends on the actual version of Ardour9 youâre running).
I pretty much rely on the mentioned lsp-plugins and the x42-plugins.
tal-plugins ?, but i didnât really look at them (yet)
i also downloaded ToneBoosters, the gui is fancy, but for me they are quite âshakyâ (but i have really very low-specs software, ymmv).
doing "dpkg - l | grep " i find die-plugins. I wasnât even aware they were installed.
Just to mention those three, as said, i canât really say a lot about them.
Hello, today there are many plug-ins available for Linux, some free, others not, in the first 2 links, you can search and you will surely find something that interests you.
The other 4 links are direct to plugin pages that I usually use to a greater or lesser extent.
Thatâs really bad, because calf Plugins are still the best around, and many users know how to handle them for best results.
I use Ardour 8.12 and found a solution to use an gtk bridge.
I wonât update Ardour untill it is clear that this Bridge will still work.
Objectively theyâre one of the worse sets out there. Their GUIs display doesnât match what the DSP does, all their multiband plugins produce audible phasing artifacts. The EQ introduces zipper noise⌠all of this is easily measured too.
Most of their plugins are great to distort things though. If that is what you want to sculpt sounds, then yes. Use your ears and knowledge⌠though there are better distortions out there
In my experience on Debian anyway that bandaid GTK bridge is broken in Debian Trixie and it was always a âborrowed timeâ bridge anyway. The Plugins are not good DSP, the UIâs now only work with a bridge that is broken and the UI toolkit they are based on is being removed from all modern mainstream Distros⌠Take a hint, itâs time to move on!
For sure no. Plenty of alternatives. Do yourself a favor, forget them and serch for
LSP,X42, ZL Audio, MDA, Socalab, Dimethoxy Audio, SuperflyDSP (freware), gxplugins, Venn audio (freware), Airwindows and Disthro. just to name a few collections (open source or freeware). Search well on linuxdaw.org.
(Robin is the developer behind the x42 plugins haha). From what I can tell, LSP and x42 are effectively canonical plugin sets at this point (there are others like SWH as well). Not canonical as in blessed by Ardour, mind you, but rather canonical as in many people use them 