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Linux ardour review12/4/2023 The foundations are well thought out and solid. It’s clear that this is an evolving format, but I think The CLAP SDK has made porting plug-ins to CLAP so far a relatively pain-free experience. Worthwhile, but it’s clear from discussions with users that this is Significant ongoing investment in development time, so it has to be I confess to being initially a bit skeptical of the hype around the CLAPįormat – as a plug-in developer, supporting a new format is a LV2 remains a strong open source choice for some developers I’ve talked to, but I’m not surprised that someone coming from VST development would find CLAP appealing. He has some reflections on CLAP, too, which may interest developers. That comes across in the work here it feels and sounds like a well-informed labor of love. Mike Start from ACMT has a 30-year background in pro audio engineering, beginning with work in all-analog design (“before affordable DSP was a thing”). Yeah, I’ve got some solid plug-ins that do this on Windows and Mac, and still I’m glad to be able to build a Linux project machine with these. What’s new – now many of those are also available in CLAP versions. Reverb: Algorithmic stereo plate reverb with subsample-accurate predelay.Īnd you can grab all of those in convenient bundles with quite reasonable pricing. Let me work on that.)Įqualizers: 10-band graphic EQ, Pultec-style EQs, 3-band EQ, console-style control strips, all analog modeled.ĭynamics: Analog-modeled limiter, compressor, compressor / expander-gate, Fairchild 670 modeled limiter. (In this alternate universe, I also have a goatee and am frankly way better at mixing. In some alternate universe where I’m running a music lab, you could easily imagine outfitting a Linux lab with something like Harrison MixBus (with some great console/mixer emulations of its own) or Bitwig Studio and then this suite of tools and teaching engineering. This certainly has given me a reason to refresh my Ubuntu Studio install – it just conveniently hit a great LTS (long-term support) build in April. I think they’ll look especially at home in the hosts I mentioned.Īnyone listening? More like this, please. But instead of overdoing it, ACMT focused on cleaning up the UI for easy readability – like these are actually displayed on a screen. Even color provides a mental cue, and those layouts worked for a reason – and provide spatial memory of where things are. A certain degree of skeuomorphism is important, in that you expect controls to be laid out and labeled in certain ways, especially in analog emulation. ACMT has done an exceptional job both of emulating a full range of tools, across EQ, channel strip, dynamics processing, and plate reverb, but also of giving you a complete feature set.Īnd I really, really like what they’ve done as far as balanced interface design. Those options have been more scarce on Linux. And now, it’s got the high-quality analog models, too, including some of the first to support the new, open CLAP format.ĪCM Series plug-ins cover all the analog modeling ground we’ve come to expect on computers – the sort of stuff studios like to show off as rare gear. Linux has the hosts – Bitwig, Ardour, Reaper, Renoise, Tracktion.
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