What's up at Plogue?

[cooper agent]

merci mec

[Hoopsville]

Haha, I think the last time I posted in this thread, I asked the same question, so I'll just copy and paste from that:

Say, speaking of what's up at Plogue, what's up with the Plogue forums?

https://www.plogue.com/plgfrms/ has been returning 403 Forbidden errors for almost two weeks now.

[seafire]

Works here

[davidv@plogue]

Say, speaking of what's up at Plogue, what's up with the Plogue forums?

We block certain browser user agents to fend off bot attacks.
Collateral damage I'm afraid. Please use another browser (or an updated version).
That said we had to block the latest chrome mac release too.

[Examigan]

I can get there with no problem on my iPad using Chrome.

[Hoopsville]

Ok, using Brave Browser, which is Chromium-based. But I updated to version 1.85.111 and that does work with the Plogue forums. Thanks for the heads-up!

Say, speaking of what's up at Plogue, what's up with the Plogue forums?

We block certain browser user agents to fend off bot attacks.
Collateral damage I'm afraid. Please use another browser (or an updated version).
That said we had to block the latest chrome mac release too.

[chuckwood]

We block certain browser user agents to fend off bot attacks.
Collateral damage I'm afraid. Please use another browser (or an updated version).
That said we had to block the latest chrome mac release too.

Well I've tried combinations of desktop, laptop, phone, windows, linux, android, chrome, brave, firefox, all up to date and all getting the same "403 forbidden" so you are running a very tight ship over there!

Really I was just going to log in to the forum to say that the linux beta 6 is resizing very nicely on my system now. Thanks again for the update and for supporting linux

[El°HYM]

A heartily warm hug also from me for providing & maintaining LINUX!

[davidv@plogue]

We block certain browser user agents to fend off bot attacks.
Collateral damage I'm afraid. Please use another browser (or an updated version).
That said we had to block the latest chrome mac release too.

Well I've tried combinations of desktop, laptop, phone, windows, linux, android, chrome, brave, firefox, all up to date and all getting the same "403 forbidden" so you are running a very tight ship over there!

Really I was just going to log in to the forum to say that the linux beta 6 is resizing very nicely on my system now. Thanks again for the update and for supporting linux

Sorry about the 403 (probably IP range related?), would need to verify. As far as Linux resize,
glad you got it working! We have pushed those fixes into the final v1.982 ARIA product builds (chipsounds/chipspeech and sforzando). The chipsynths and crusher are next.
Kind Regards

[audiojunkie]

We block certain browser user agents to fend off bot attacks.
Collateral damage I'm afraid. Please use another browser (or an updated version).
That said we had to block the latest chrome mac release too.

Well I've tried combinations of desktop, laptop, phone, windows, linux, android, chrome, brave, firefox, all up to date and all getting the same "403 forbidden" so you are running a very tight ship over there!

Really I was just going to log in to the forum to say that the linux beta 6 is resizing very nicely on my system now. Thanks again for the update and for supporting linux

Sorry about the 403 (probably IP range related?), would need to verify. As far as Linux resize,
glad you got it working! We have pushed those fixes into the final v1.982 ARIA product builds (chipsounds/chipspeech and sforzando). The chipsynths and crusher are next.
Kind Regards

@David@Plogue I've been meaning to ask you.... As far as Linux goes, there aren't too many orchestra plugins or sample packages. Is Sforzando compatible with Aria? Can you make Aria linux compatible so that we can buy and use the Garritan instruments?

[davidv@plogue]

@David@Plogue I've been meaning to ask you.... As far as Linux goes, there aren't too many orchestra plugins or sample packages. Is Sforzando compatible with Aria? Can you make Aria linux compatible so that we can buy and use the Garritan instruments?

There are many issues that prevents this from being (easily) possible.

First: Technically sforzando runs the same base engine as the old ARIA Player. The main difference is the ARIA Player came with 16 instrument slots so you could do "ensemble" presets.

Second: most Garritan products used custom DSP modules that were installed by them and we do not have the rights (let alone budget) to port those over to linux. (not our IP)

Third: All these came with installers that placed specific registry keys here and there, nothing of the sort is done here.

You could with a lot of hacking make parts of those libraries work, but we of course wouldn't officially support this.

In other news. I just published a series of fixes for the good old Sonatina Bank:
https://github.com/plgDavid/sso/releases
Once installed it now appears as a full product in sforzando menus.
Cheers

[audiojunkie]

@David@Plogue I've been meaning to ask you.... As far as Linux goes, there aren't too many orchestra plugins or sample packages. Is Sforzando compatible with Aria? Can you make Aria linux compatible so that we can buy and use the Garritan instruments?

There are many issues that prevents this from being (easily) possible.

First: Technically sforzando runs the same base engine as the old ARIA Player. The main difference is the ARIA Player came with 16 instrument slots so you could do "ensemble" presets.

Second: most Garritan products used custom DSP modules that were installed by them and we do not have the rights (let alone budget) to port those over to linux. (not our IP)

Third: All these came with installers that placed specific registry keys here and there, nothing of the sort is done here.

You could with a lot of hacking make parts of those libraries work, but we of course wouldn't officially support this.

In other news. I just published a series of fixes for the good old Sonatina Bank:
https://github.com/plgDavid/sso/releases
Once installed it now appears as a full product in sforzando menus.
Cheers

I understand. Thank you for getting back to me, and thank you for the SSO fixes.