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where do i download the plugins and are they in the .clap format?

Open RustoMCSpit opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

https://github.com/RustoMCSpit/awesome-linux-clap-list

i want to add your plugins to my list

RustoMCSpit avatar Jun 02 '24 09:06 RustoMCSpit

Hi @RustoMCSpit

Thanks for the interest, and I appreciate the promotion

Unfortunately, the plugins are compiled into Stargate DAW, they are not separate files, similar to how Reason used to be before they added Rack Extensions and VST support. The plugin format is specific to Stargate DAW, I invented it before CLAP was ever publicly announced. The plugin format could not easily be ported or wrapped to other plugin formats because the UI component of the plugin has a hard dependency on Python and PyQt, which would not be easy to use in a VST2/3/AU/AAX/CLAP/LV2/etc... plugin. Even if one wrapped the DSP part of the plugin, the plugin UIs would first need to be reconstructed in another UI framework like JUCE or VSTGUI.

L3337 avatar Jun 23 '24 01:06 L3337

mmm. may i suggest that if you were going to make any more plugins that you dont do them in your format but do them in clap then? change your workflow for new ones and keep the old ones as is

RustoMCSpit avatar Jun 23 '24 13:06 RustoMCSpit

Unfortunately, the plugins are compiled into Stargate DAW, they are not separate files

Then they aren't plugins, they are just features.

rulatir avatar Jul 31 '24 18:07 rulatir

isn't the whole idea of stargate that it's selfcontained? So no moving parts/interfaces/plugins which might break compatiblity over time?

coderofsalvation avatar Apr 08 '25 13:04 coderofsalvation