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steve wrote:the Calf plug-ins are really nice effects, but their graphical interface causes problems for many applications, including Audacity. Some versions of Calf plug-ins work pretty well in Audacity, but other versions have problems.

What are the problems? The main problems I have are that the interface of some CALF plugins is too large for my netbook screen resolution, or the interface doesn't appear or only partially appears. But several other VST's (such as TAL) are prone to that as well.

Trisquel 7 seems to based on Ubuntu 14.04, which is the Ubuntu version I am using. I just installed Calf 0.0.19+git20131202-1 using Synaptic.

Gale

The LADSPA versions worked great for me, but the LV2 version that I've tried repeatedly crash in Audacity.

steve wrote:The LADSPA versions worked great for me, but the LV2 version that I've tried repeatedly crash in Audacity.

Do those CALF LV2's crash in Ardour?

Gale

Gale Andrews wrote:Do those CALF LV2's crash in Ardour?

They work fine in Ardour3.

steve wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote:Do those CALF LV2's crash in Ardour?

They work fine in Ardour3.

Sounds like Audacity has some moonphase bug with CALF LV2's then, or you and Get_Ready are doing something with those effects that I am not doing.

Can you say what you would do to make a crash happen?


Gale

Gale Andrews wrote:Can you say what you would do to make a crash happen?

I don't currently have them installed, but as a typical crash scenario:
While running real-time preview, click the bypass button in the effect GUI.

To be more precise about my question :

I have now Audacity 2.1.1 Alpha april 8 2015 Version.
My Calf-plug in version is 0.0.19+git20131202-1

I only really need a 3, 5, 16 and 32 band equalizer working on realtime.

Now, maybe Calf plug-ins are not the solution for me. Is there anything else that works fine with Audacity ?

I restore sounds (talk, music) and digitalize analog recordings (record, tapes...)
Audacity Noice Reduction tool for example is not really a problem for not being in realtime. Equalizer still is for what I do.

I tried Ardour but I don't want to use it. Ardour only open its own files (no aiff, wav...) and it's telling me that with 262 Go free in my hard drive I haven't got enouth space. So, adieu Ardour !

Thank you guys for your help anyway.

Get_Ready wrote:Now, maybe Calf plug-ins are not the solution for me

It would be worth trying it. Nothing to loose. You may have more luck with Calf plug-ins than me. If not, you can uninstall them.

Get_Ready wrote:To be more precise about my question :

I have now Audacity 2.1.1 Alpha april 8 2015 Version.

Were you not able to get the Ubuntu Handbook 2.1.1 release PPA working https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/ ... u/audacity? That should be preferable to an alpha build.

Get_Ready wrote:I only really need a 3, 5, 16 and 32 band equalizer working on realtime.

Now, maybe Calf plug-ins are not the solution for me. Is there anything else that works fine with Audacity ?

Do I assume you want a graphical interface? If you accept a textual interface with sliders it may give more possibilities. The LADSPA-swh package has a 15-band equalizer.

Calf does not have more than a 12-band equalizer.

Did you go through http://linux-sound.org/linux-vst-plugins.html carefully?


Gale

steve wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote:Can you say what you would do to make a crash happen?

I don't currently have them installed, but as a typical crash scenario:
While running real-time preview, click the bypass button in the effect GUI.

I tried that several times on different Calf plugins, both playing audio before opening the plugin, and starting playback in the plugin. No crash for me.


Gale