Not with the scene…

[John Colvin]

On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 23:03:16 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 13 September 2013 22:18, John Colvin 
> <john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 16:27:11 UTC, Iain Buclaw 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sep 13, 2013 9:53 AM, "Russel Winder" 
>>> <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 14:56 +0200, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>>>> […]
>>>> > Regarding the dub music genre, it has to be said that > 
>>>> > although it is
>>>> > the
>>>> > root for dubstep and in turn ... brostep, it's usually not
>>>> > > really
>>>> > comparable result-wise and I have a strong desire to avoid
>>>> > > putting
>>>> > the
>>>> > word "step" somewhere in proximity of "DUB" ;)
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps this is the last word on the dubstep issue :-)
>>>>
>>>> http://www.mazbox.com/synths/dubstep/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Someone should port to D.  In fact that's one thing I'd 
>>> definitely would
>>> like to start a case for - using D in audio processing (eg: 
>>> effects,
>>> synths
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Me too. Unfortunately the whole pro-audio plugin industry is 
>> completely
>> wrapped around steinbergs little finger, doing everything as 
>> VSTs in c++.
>
> Perhaps you haven't heard of LV2? http://lv2plug.in/

It looks OK, but VST has an almost complete stranglehold (with 
the exception of AU on OS-X I suppose). Linux and open source 
have really failed to make much of an impact in the world of 
audio. Almost all the pros are on OSX/Windows with £500+ DAWs* 
and thousands of pounds of closed source VST plugins. A large 
proportion of free VSTs aren't even open source.

*The notable exception being Reaper, which is very affordable and 
quite widely used these days.