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lv2 / lv2

lv2

The LV2 audio plugin specification

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The LV2 audio plugin specification

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Observed mentions: 2020-02-17 12:38:13 UTC to 2023-05-19 17:06:11 UTC.

0122020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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What Hacker News says

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RDF primer but using Turtle (older doc): https://www.w3.org/2007/02/turtle/primer/ Audio (etc) plugin format that uses .ttl: https://lv2plug.in/ https://gitlab.com/lv2/lv2/-/tree/master/lv2/core.lv2 https://gitlab.com/lv2/lv2/-/tree/master/schemas.lv2 https://drobilla.net/software/sord https://drobilla.net/software/serd drobilla has mentioned that, if there was a C JSON-LD lib, that might be enough to warrant an LV3 For more: https://github.com/lv2/lv2/wiki P.S. not many people know that LV2 does modular synth style CV https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=20701&p=112242
In Update of the RDF and SPARQL (RDF star) families of specifications
LV2 audio plugins use RDF/Turtle; https://github.com/lv2/lv2 curl -H "Accept: text/turtle,application/rdf+xml" http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/lv2core curl -H "Accept: text/turtle,application/rdf+xml" http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/atom Some hosts also use it for saving audio graphs; https://drobilla.net/software/ingen.html http://drobilla.net/ns/ingen.html https://github.com/moddevices/mod-factory-user-data/tree/mas... https://pedalboards.moddevices.com/
In The semantic web is dead – Long live the semantic web
Both JACK and LV2 are multiplatform, but there are Windows build problems for JACK atm. I'm unaware as to the current state of things regarding macOS. However, Carla is multiplatform can do it all internally. There are a limited number of binary LV2 bundles available for Windows n macOS. That number has been slowly increasing, though just a fraction of LV2 use CV ports so far, but it is early days yet. https://kx.studio/Applications:Carla https://github.com/falkTX/Carla https://github.com/lv2/lv2/wiki
In Hacking my arm prosthesis to plug into a synth: thought-controlled music [video]

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