Yay for audio plugins under Wayland.
Non-embedded type for now, but one step at a time we will get there.
Also, today I answered a question I had for a long time...
If an X11 host running under XWayland calls Wayland-native APIs manually, would it be able to load Wayland-UI based plugins?
The answer is yes - Carla running under Qt xcb "platform" can still show Wayland UIs.
The reverse is also true (Qt wayland "platform" with X11 UIs through XWayland)
Future is bright 🌄
My FOSDEM presentation ia now possible to watch online! 🎉
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/JYGFRE-modular-in-the-daw/
A small talk about Cardinal's history/beginnings, differences vs Rack Pro and some tips&tricks.
See you all next year again!
A small update on the KXStudio repositories this month(ish).
Just a few updates, but added new "hamburger" distortion plugin.
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=kxstudio-project-update-august-october-2025
@amadeus @linuxaudioplugindevelopment
This means that if a DAW does not offer X11 support (...) it neither can be run on X11 nor will X11 plugins work inside such a DAW
This is false, the 2nd part.
A wayland-only application cannot run under X11 But! a native wayland application can 100% load X11 plugin UIs without trouble, assuming XWayland is present. Try it! If you have Carla and Wayland, run "carla -platform wayland" (ignore project file warning)
If the host calls into X11, it works
@amadeus @linuxaudioplugindevelopment yeah that is not quite correct...
X11 applications and plugins work flawlessly on Wayland
add a "mostly flawlessly". the compatibility is not 100%, there are cases where it breaks.
none of the popular plugin frameworks support Wayland directly
true-ish, not officially yet, but best to say its WIP. I am working on it for DPF and JUCE has unofficial implementation https://forum.juce.com/t/wayland-implementation-for-juce/66840/
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Doing the automatic-audio-plugin-scanner code in Carla now, as needed for the "plugins in OBS" project.
It nicely trickles down to other projects that also use Carla for their plugin hosting.
Screenshot shows https://github.com/DISTRHO/Ildaeil happily listing and hosting VST2 plugins ☀️
So next Ildaeil release will have even more format-to-format capabilities!
VSTs in LV2 hosts? no problem!
CLAPs in VST hosts? sure thing!
throw VST3 too while at it, why not.
