LV2 support

[dromer]

LV2 is a relatively uncommon format, but has full cross-platform support for many operating systems. Well known multi-OS hosts are: Ardour/Mixbus, Reaper, Carla, Mixxx, Zrythm, and more still to come.

Would be great if we can see OwlPlug help to distribute such plugins to more platforms.

[DropSnorz]

Hi, @dromer,

Thank you for opening this issue. I agree, it would be cool to add support for an open format like LV2.

OwlPlug is based on JUCE for native plugin metadata discovery. There is only a LADSPA host support but nothing for LV2 for now. However, the LV2 support in JUCE seems on the way for 2022: https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE/issues/123

As soon as LV2 host features are available in JUCE, we can start implementation cycles to add a new plugin format in OwlPlug:

• [ ] LV2 configuration in Options panel: lv2Enabled, lv2Directory ...
• [ ] Collect LV2 during plugin discovery
• [ ] Create a custom icon for LV2
• [ ] Update store specification to support LV2
• [ ] Add LV2 variants to OwlPlug Central.

[dromer]

If you are only using it for discovery and don't need any of the hosting capabilities then simply implementing discovery should not be too difficult with something like lilv.

However I can understand that you want to stick to the same API so JUCE getting native support is probably better for you. There is also https://github.com/lvtk/jlv2 project, but this will likely deprecate once JUCE has official support.

[dromer]

JUCE has preview of LV2 support now -> https://forum.juce.com/t/juce7-technical-preview-branch/50866/56

[DropSnorz]

Great news ! I'm progressing well on OwlPlug Linux port (#30), so i may take a look soon for LV2 support :wink:

[DropSnorz]

As JUCE 7 has been released, I will start to work on LV2 support this summer.

[DropSnorz]

LV2 support has been released in OwlPlug 1.22.0