Reply 2340 of 2341, by Falcosoft
- Rank
- l33t
Wohlstand wrote on Yesterday, 15:18:Roland User, dude, you explained a total mess. Let me clarify about the stuff so no longer misunderstandings should be. - I deve […]
Roland User, dude, you explained a total mess. Let me clarify about the stuff so no longer misunderstandings should be.
- I develop MIDI synthesizer core libraries such as libADLMIDI and libOPNMIDI, and I have bundled tools like cross-platform terminal players, plugins for VLC player and WinMM drivers.
- My friend JPCima developed powerful VST plugins over my libraries and we worked together.
- Unfortunately, my friend is gone at September 0f 2022 and nobody can find him, even his close friends (I unexpectedly received one of such letters) and since that all his projects became unmaintained.
- I took the maintenance over his ADLJack repository that implements the MIDI daemon that I actively use on Linux to make music using Sekaiju MIDI editor.
- His ADLplug repository that contains VST plugins were left without write access for me at all.
- I made my fork 3 months ago to just apply minor fixes, but later I just didn't touched it for a long time since any VST modules aren't in my priority.
- What actually Roland User wanted from Falcosoft: he wants Falcosoft to pick up the most recent version of ADLplug (my fork is right now) repo and continue its maintenance so let new updates with the most fresh libADLMIDI's and libOPNMIDI's cores being available in VST/LV2 plugin format too.
- By myself I am not super-interested in VST since I don't use any of such stuff on my end and across of my users it's very small demand on VST/LV2 plugins (or isn't just users of JPCima's ADLplug/OPNplug are fine with existing stuff?). I do use DAWs very rarely, just because I am fan of pure MIDI and I use my libADLMIDI and libOPNMIDI directly in game projects to play musics from MIDI files directly. But if anybody greatly wants a VST - feel free to assist me to maintain such overlays. While JPCima was available, we worked very good, and his ADLplug received my updates rapidly.
Hi,
Thanks for the explanation. I suspected something similar at the end of the conversation with Roland User but with your more detailed explanation the situation is absolutely clear for me.
But unfortunately this does not change the fact that currently I have neither the free time nor the mood to be the maintainer of that plugin.