Implement as an LV2 plugin

[naught101]

This is the simplest and easiest to use FOSS sampler that I've come across. Its small size makes it really well suited as a plugin for various DAWs (Ardour, Qtractor etc.). Making this available as an LV2 plugin would also probably give it a lot more reach, as a plugin-based workflow is much more common on windows/mac, which is where many new users are coming from.

http://lv2plug.in/trac/

[jwm-art-net]

Yep, Petri-Foo as an LV2 plugin would be nice but.... who's gonna do it? Maybe I will do it one day but right now I'm having a break to enjoy what remains of the British Summer.

[naught101]

Fair enough. I also don't have time, at least for a few months. Just thought I'd throw it up here anyway, partly to gauge your interest in having it included. Do you have any idea roughly how much work is involved? I haven't done any audio-related coding before.

[jwm-art-net]

I would be happy to see development of Petri-Foo as an LV2 plugin, but I expect it would turn out to be a lot of work.

I experimented a few years ago porting a handful of simple LADSPA plugins to LV2 and I didn't find it straight forward.

There have also been issues with LV2 regarding external files and RT threads - how do you get the plugin to load a sample for instance? How do you get it to allocate memory for the sample? Does the host do it? etc, etc...

I know Drobilla has been working on these issues but I am unsure if they have been resolved yet.

Take a look at http://samplv1.sourceforge.net if you want some idea of what is involved. Join the LV2 developers mailing list too.

[grammoboy2]

Yes LV2 would be nice. I meantime NSM is a good alternative. It's already there, but broken atm
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[trebmuh]

First, thanks for this software. It's pretty straight to dive into it.
I'm just adding my voice here to say that it would be great to have it as an LV2 plugin.
It's been discussed earlier such as in:
http://sourceforge.net/p/petri-foo/mailman/message/28704762/

[trebmuh]

I thought about something today which might be helpful for someone diving into making an LV2 version of petri-foo : https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF
Because it could be great to have a LV2 version, but would be silly to discard the standalone one.
Hope that helps.

[jwm-art-net]

I'm not deeply enough involved in code anymore to work on this or any other aspect of Petri-Foo.

[trebmuh]

OK, thanks for letting us know @jwm-art-net . I'm finishing reading through all emails on the ML archive and I've got to tell you a big thanks for having done what you did in petri foo.