at last, there are some more DAWs for Linux (Ardour, Bitwig Studio, Renoise, Waveform, etc.), but on the other side there are very few VST plugins.
this could be a good chance to make MUX more known, with a MUX vst plugin version!
https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk
FR: MUX vst for Linux
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- KVRAF
- 7412 posts since 8 Feb, 2003 from London, UK
VST3 really has nothing to do with it. The VST toolkit is hardly a major part of MUX, of course - the graphics code would need to be ported to a new wrapper layer over the most appropriate X windowing library, which would add a third lot of incompatible code at the event level, adding more opportunities for bugs across all platforms. You've also got the question of whether MUX should only host VST plugins - which would be severely limiting, as you point out - or also LADSPA/DSSI/LV2 ones - which adds even more complexity and is platform-specific.
Of course, there's little separating MUX and MuLab, so it would be a case of porting both, too - I get the feeling testing MuX generally happens first in MuLab before "MuX the VST" gets built, going by the release cycles. That adds working with JACK, portaudio/portmidi or handling audio and MIDI directly - none of which are great options and, again, add opportunities for bugs across all platforms.
I'm really not sure Jo would get a significant financial return on the effort, though, and of course nothing else would get progressed whilst it was being done, so he would have to judge it against other investments.
Of course, there's little separating MUX and MuLab, so it would be a case of porting both, too - I get the feeling testing MuX generally happens first in MuLab before "MuX the VST" gets built, going by the release cycles. That adds working with JACK, portaudio/portmidi or handling audio and MIDI directly - none of which are great options and, again, add opportunities for bugs across all platforms.
I'm really not sure Jo would get a significant financial return on the effort, though, and of course nothing else would get progressed whilst it was being done, so he would have to judge it against other investments.