[Ardour-Users] Crash with Calf plugins after OS upgrade

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Calf is known to cause multiple issues for users of Ardour, it seems more
likely that you had a specific set of circumstances that allowed them to
work by accident, rather than them working intentionally before.  I would
strongly recommend using something else.  The a-* plugins that come with
Ardour are a great start for example, there are other options out there as
well, fo rinstance the LSP plugins, Robin's x42-eq, etc..  As someone that
teaches audio mixing at a local uni, I would also recommend learning to EQ
by ear, not by reading numbers, it will help you improve tremendously.

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On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 6:15 AM Luis Finotti <luis.finotti at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just remove the Calf LADSPA plugins.  Then the LV2 ones should work.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2019, 1:40 AM James Harkins <jamshark70 at zoho.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a non-terribly-frequent user of Ardour. (I do most of my work in
>> SuperCollider, and import audio files into Ardour for mixing and
>> quasi-mastering.)
>>
>> About a year ago, I downloaded and paid for Ardour 5.12.0, using it at
>> that time under Ubuntu Studio 16.04.
>>
>> A few weeks ago, I upgraded the OS to 18.04 (using the upgrade tool --
>> not doing a fresh installation). That's been working very, very well.
>>
>> But today, I opened Ardour and found that Calf LV2 plugins always crash
>> Ardour. (OK, I didn't try them all, but both Compressor and 8-band EQ have
>> the same problem -- so I'm going to guess that all of them are affected.) I
>> also tried disabling "automatically open GUI" and it didn't help.
>>
>> I would really like to get the Calf plug-ins working again. Especially
>> for EQ and compression, a proper display is extremely helpful.
>>
>> So... what is my next step? Upgrade Ardour? Upgrade the plug-ins?
>>
>> Ardour 5.12.0
>> Calf plugins 0.0.60-5
>> Calf LADSPA plugins 1.1.3-7 (these don't crash Ardour, but the GUI is...
>> should I say... primitive)
>>
>> TIA,
>> hjh
>>
>>
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