[Fedora-music-list] Ingen

[Martin Tarenskeen]

Hi,

After installing a whole bunch of dependencies - many from fedora, a few 
from SVN sources - I managed to compile and install the stuff from


svn co http://svn.drobilla.net/lad/trunk drobilla-lad


And now have working versions of, among others, Ingen and all the MDA 
effect and synth plugins on my Fedora systems. To be able to build Ingen I 
also had to get the SVN version of LV2. Even the official Fedora version 
wasn't new enough. I don't think the official Fedora repo's should be 
filled with hardly tested alpha and beta development versions from SVN or 
GIT or whatever. IMO this is already happening too often.

That doesn't mean I do not like to experiment. I am having a lot of fun 
with Ingen. For example I can combine the MDA synths DX10 and JX10 with 
all kinds of filters and effects to create really fat or weird sounds.

I do get crashes once in a while - that's part of the game if you want to 
experiment.

Also I found, compiled, and tried a nice little LV2 bass-synth called 
"minaton". Could be a nice candidate for Fedora also.

Anyway: after being a "promising and improved" alternative to DSSI and 
LADSPA only in theory for years, now it looks like LV2 is slowly growing 
to something that is actively supported by developers and actually usable 
for users.

Nice to see more and more LV2 stuff showing up in Fedora, and there is 
more of it waiting!

-- 

MT