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Loading Linux plugins on Windows hosts through Wine.
Because a half-step is better than no step.

To be more clear... it's hard to leave FL behind but don't really want to dual-boot or starting relying on Windows plugins.
Its possible to do plugins such that:
- Windows host loads a small shim
- shim loads Linux plugin
- do some little odd XEmbed things to get UIs on Windows host side too

I might make this a "use it if you want, no support whatsoever" project, because Wine breaks too often... 🤔

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It's release day! 🚀

https://github.com/trummerschlunk/PodcastPlugins

> Podcast Plugins are easy-to-use plugins for speech enhancement, specifically designed for podcasters who can't or don't want to dig deeper into the craft of sound engineering.

Excited to help bring another set of plugins to life! Thanks @trummerschlunk for the trust and opportunity, and somehow always managing to get the funds for these projects 😅

🎉 🎉 🎉

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Next plugin UIs are getting to final stages...

Colors still TBD but looks good already I think.

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Installed https://jellyfin.org/ today and I am quite surprised how well it works. 👏

Playing media files feels instant, unlike nextcloud that takes several seconds to start video playback...
And finally something for group watching 👏 👏

Also handles music quite nicely.
Makes me want to buy more now haha

Can recommend! #jellyfin

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for the curious ones, this is how the color-theme editor looks like...

it is just imgui doing the heavy lifting, yes :)
love that little library for such things

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Being able to tweak plugin UI colors is always a treat.

UwU mode activate! ☀️ 💥 🌈

Want to be able to save such colors as user preferences, so it becomes more usable than just for testing.

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Doing another little project with @trummerschlunk

Coming soon...

I wonder if it already looks like a real plugin 🤔
My UI skills are a bit lacking, also not a whole lot of time until this needs to be done.
It works nicely though.

PS: Colors to be defined

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New release of Cardinal is out!
https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/releases/tag/24.12

Lots of module updates this time, and also some important macOS/AU related fixes.

The online version at https://cardinal.kx.studio/live is updated as well

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The "solution" to this is to pay Apple an $100 / year extortion fee (per developer), and also a bit of a convoluted setup to "sign" every single package you make (even automated ones in CI)

If Apple doesn't like you they can just stop accepting your builds. 🤷

ad-hoc builds don't work here, as signed apps are not allowed to load plugins (and libraries) that have been ad-hoc signed.

With this I might just drop macOS support from my projects.

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Really not liking what I am seeing with macOS 15.1 and how it associates unsigned apps and packages as "untrustworthy and possibly full of malware".

Did an example with a simple audio plugin package, steps are:
1. Try to open the pkg and have it fail, **do not press "Move to Bin"**
2. Open System Settings, go to security and press "Open Anyway"
3. Click again "Open Anyway" in the new dialog
4. Input password

All this while screen is screaming "UNSAFE!" at you.

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So with this 24.09 release we got a piano roll in Cardinal.

Easy to checkout with the web version, here with a quick demo patch: https://cardinal.kx.studio/live?patchurl=https://kx.studio/Paste/raw/BOIpK

The plugin author has documentation at https://github.com/Rcomian/rcm-modules/blob/v2/README.md#piano-roll

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New releases!

Carla 2.5.9
https://github.com/falkTX/Carla/releases/tag/v2.5.9

and Cardinal 24.09
https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/releases/tag/24.09

Slowly getting back to work on these things again...
Next up should be JACK2, it is really needing some attention.

Enjoy! 🎉

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News on the MOD Audio (previously known as MOD Devices) situation is finally being made public

https://forum.mod.audio/t/mod-reboot-phase-two/11785

It is a quite positive outlook and promising future despite the very rough path so far.

Happy to be able to publicly talk about job and work related things again. I want to write a big personal post soon, but let me finish the home preparations first.

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This is such a weird way to write C++ 😂

An example:

```
QApplication app;
QApplication__init(&app, argc, argv, 0);

QWebEngineScript script;
QWebEngineScript__init(&script);
QWebEngineScript_setInjectionPoint(&script, 2);
QWebEngineScript_setRunsOnSubFrames(&script, true);
QWebEngineScript_setSourceCode(&script, qstrcode);
QWebEngineScript_setWorldId(&script, 0);
QWebEngineScriptCollection_insert(scripts, script);
```

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Trying to dynamically load and call a C++ shared library is some serious challenge.

mangled names everywhere, vtable shenanigans and if dealing with Qt also qobject/qmetaobject weirdness...

But it works! I am able to dynamically create a QApplication, spawn a QWebEngineView, set some parameters and create a fake QObject class to receive some events.
All without linking to Qt directly, and compatible with both Qt5 and Qt6.

This way if the system does not have gtk3 webkit, Qt is fallback.

🎉

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A little milestone achieved, Carla is working with Qt6 now! 🎉

I wish to be doing other things than updating to new frameworks to stay relevant, but at least Qt5 -> Qt6 compatibility is quite okay.
The annoyance is more on PyQt side that loves to break backwards compat. And Python somewhat too.

I regret having chosen Python for the frontend but a bit too late now since there is quite a lot of code...

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GitHub are you ok? what is going on here?

Says unverified and no username with that email, but that is for sure false as that email has been in use for more than a decade now... 😕

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A friend of mine is starting her own music band "Eyes Awaiting", a metal duo that "tell stories about human emotions, day-to-day struggles, the mysteries, the deep traumas and the joys of life"

See details on
https://www.eyesawaiting.com/ including their very first music video! 🎉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL7OSU6pv6o

Very happy for her, so want to share the news on the fediverse side.
Boosts appreciated, share the love and appreciate some nice music!

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A very cozy office 😅

It is mostly all unpacked and already usable now.
And yes, we need all 3 fans.

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Doing an office + house move in the middle of warm humid weather is really something... 😓

Not sure if any energy remains for assembly now, who needs a kitchen anyway.