It all started few days ago when i noticed ArtCraft visual creation suite. I tried it, and was pleasantly surprised with its first steps (being it is obviously vibe-coded). New versions pilled up quickly, and with every new version, bugs & annoyances were shrinking. I’m not sure what i actually think of it all(morally), but it’s there and it is what it is…
Today i went to visit linuxdaw.org after a few months and i was stunned by the sheer amount of new plugins available.
First of all - how to know which ones are vibe-coded and which are not?
Then, does anyone here use vibe-coded plugins and how do they behave in Ardour?
Are there any good and functional ones?
Are they resource heavy&safe? The last thing i need are resource heavy plugins that are also AI agents backdoors (and is that even a thing/real world issue?) ) .
Right now i trust and belive only in ancient known ones (airwindows, dragonfly, surge, gx etc), but i wonder is there a point in checking these new ones out?
A related question about resource usage and safety (both audio data safety, and personal information theft safety) of new plugins is what source code data were the LLMs trained on? There are many notorious instances of plugins making…I think the most polite description would be “sub-optimal choices” in design and implementation. I don’t think we really need a flood of plugins created with an LLM trained on CALF plugins (which is probably not far fetched, considering how widely distributed they were, and how easily available the source code).
It’s not just plugins being created in the spirit of “vibe-coding” - entire DAW programs are emerging that are built this way. I’m referring not only to “SoundCraft” (from the ArtCraft suite) - a Pro Tools clone - but also, for instance, to “FaderFrame,” which is, frankly speaking, amazing. It is a native Wayland application that supports X11 plugins, including their graphical interfaces… Even Fender Studio Pro can’t do that. I never imagined that “vibe-coding” would make it possible to create things like this.
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