Graphical regression on the display of plugins in V8.6

[patked]

Hi all

I updated ardour to V8.6 (Linux). But I see a regression in the display of plugins. Previously, for example, on equalizers, the adjustment buttons were displayed with a visual like on a mixing board. Since V8.6, the display is no longer the same, and is no longer at all intuitive, it feels like Linux console mode…
So not practical at all.
The graphical interface is no longer the same for all plugins.
A bug?

[DHealey]

Are you using the calf plugins?

[patked]

Hello Dhealey

Indeed, I use Calf plugins. All now have a very basic interface in this new version V8.6
before

After

[DHealey]

This is a known issue, I think it’s something to do with calf not supporting the latest version of some GTK library.

A compatibility pack for Calf Plugins to work in Ardour 8.6

Hi, many users are facing problems to load Calf Plugins ui, sometimes even doesn’t load because the GTK used in Calf is not so updated, seeking on the internet and testing in my own machines I found a solution to load Calf Plugins LV2 with the gui installing a package made by falkTX from KXSTUDIO project, the package name is lv2-gtk-ui-bridge that exposes old LV2 GTK2/3 plugins as LV2 X11 ui, I istalled the KXSTUDIO version of CALF LV2 and the v2-gtk-ui-bridge_0.1-1kxstudio1_amd64.deb manually(…

Have you in plan change gui from gtk to other like juice or something cross-platform?

[Daniele1971]

Do yourself a favor, drop them. There are plenty of better alternatives.

[patked]

Great DHelay !
I just installed " Lv2-gtk-ui-bridge_0.1-1kxstudio1_amd64.deb
And the GUI came back

Many thanks to you
have a good day

[theseatedscribe]

Interesting. I’ve been migrating from Calf Plugins and EQ10 for the same gui problems, still looking for alternatives for some of them. But this could let me re-open old projects without using an older version of Ardour.