Wishlist for packages

[diovudau]

Here are wishes and ideas of what to software to package.
Inclusion in this list does not mean any obligation or timeline of a package actually happening.
There is no order or priority to this list.
Entries must not be already in the official arch binary repositories.

Many of the programs here may have upstream problem that prevent proper packaging, hence they are not already binary packages. In this case they are either "will not happen" or need communication and fixes with upstream.

Wishlist

(Last update: 2023-11-27, removed done items, removed bass-studio, added new ones from comments up until today)

From #3 (comment):

• SpinTool
• MidiEditor (AUR)
• VoiceOfFaust
• midisox
• MixMaxtrix (Repo)

From #3 (comment):

• jamtaba | AUR
• FAUST examples
• Gearmulator
• helio-workstation

From #3 (comment):

• A LOoper | AUR LV2 looper pedal plugin

From #3 (comment):

• ReFine (Repo)
• melonix
• Astrofox
• Wav2Bar
• Cabbage (AUR -bin)
• HISE

From #3 (comment):

• CHOW BYOD
• CHOW Matrix
• CHOW Kick
• CHOW Klon Centaur Model
• CHOW Tape Model

From #3 (comment):

• pluginval

From #3 (comment)

• argotlunar

From #3 (comment):

• MIDIVisualizer (AUR)
• SmartGuitarAmp (AUR)
• SmartGuitarPedal (AUR)

From #3 (comment):

• aeolus_plugin

From #3 (comment):

• Neural Amp Modeler

From #3 (comment):

• Spontini

From #3 (comment):

• Zrythm (AUR)

From #3 (comment):

• CloudReverb

From #3 (comment):

• Internet DJ Console (AUR)

From #3 (comment):

• Minaton-XT

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• Package CDP (Composers Desktop Project) #305

WIP

• Currently open PRs for new packages

Maybe

• ly2video https://github.com/aspiers/ly2video | AUR (VCS pkg)
  • would need a more recent stable release
  • depends on a python-midi, which doesn't have any stable release
• k-board-editor https://github.com/danielappelt/k-board-editor :)
  • no stable release
• https://github.com/jpcima/ensemble-chorus | AUR
  • Problem see: Stable release jpcima/ensemble-chorus#15 (comment)

From #3 (comment):

• slowmo.lv2 - no tagged release yet
• VintageTubeOverdrive.lv2 - no tagged release yet

No

• midiPolyphony https://bitbucket.org/agraef/pizmidi/src/master/pizmidi/midiPolyphony VST2 License Problem
• synthclone https://github.com/surfacepatterns/synthclone | AUR Needs qt4 (see also Chris' packaging TODO list #9)

From #3 (comment):

• MXTune needs Steinberg VST2 SDK

[SpotlightKid]

midiPolyphony is part of the pizmidi collection, which needs the VST2 headers to compile. These headers are only available in the AUR right now from the package vst2sdk, which builds from an old copy of the VST3 SDK, which still has the VST 2 headers. It downloads this old copy from web.archive.org/. This is not reliable.

Apart from that. I don't think we are allowed to distribute binaries compiled using these headers if we're not licensees of Steinberg,

[diovudau]

A personal list of software for "review later". I figure it is more useful to have them here instead in my private offline notebook.
I mostly read the first paragraph of their github readme and glanced at the "LICENSE".

• https://github.com/manucontrovento/SpinTool "SpinTool is a loop based software fully controllable with any midi device, synced with Jack transport. "
• https://github.com/markusschwenk/midieditor "MidiEditor is a free software providing an interface to edit, record, and play Midi data."
• https://github.com/magnetophon/VoiceOfFaust " Turns any monophonic sound into a synthesizer, preserving the pitch and spectral dynamics of the input. "
• https://github.com/trummerschlunk/master_me (Faust)
• https://github.com/charlesfleche/lpd8editor
• midisox https://pjb.com.au/midi/midisox.html .
  • "You will also need to install the MIDI.py and TermClui.py modules in your $PYTHONPATH. "
  • Part of a whole suite https://gitlab.com/peterbillam/miditools . How to avoid binary path spamming with all those tools, and name conflicts? Prefix the installed files? Subdir in /usr/bin ?
  • Contacted author by e-mail for release and license . https://pjb.com.au/comp/contact.html
• MixMaxtrix LV2 and VST https://www.kvraudio.com/product/mixmaxtrix-by-artv https://github.com/RafaGago/artv-audio (Monorepo?)

[cbix]

Regarding VST2 maybe we could discuss in a separate issue thread (or in chat) about solutions like using the VeSTige headers. Interesting article.

Maintaining my personal wish list here (WIP and Done removed):

• jamtaba | AUR (still blocked by Add a LICENSE file and copyright headers elieserdejesus/JamTaba#1210)
• faust examples as lv2
  • should compile headless plugins
  • includes a lot of small plugins
  • ideally they're all merged in a single lv2 bundle, requires manual work
• DSP563xx/gearmulator
• helio-workstation

[SpotlightKid]

MidiEditor

AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/midieditor

midimonster

AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/midimonster

https://github.com/jpcima/ssr

Has no release, so can only be packaged a a VCS package in AUR (which it already is).

[thisven]

* klick https://github.com/dsacre/klick | [AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/klick-git) (VCS pkg)

I'm using klick2ardour.py, a Python script that reads klick tempo maps and writes them to Ardour session files, and already had contact with the author.

I'll investigate on that.

[SpotlightKid]

I'll investigate on that [klick].

I already started on this but then stopped because creating an up-to-date patch wasn't as easy as I initially thought: #11

Feel free to take over the PR.

[diovudau]

I think we should refrain from trying to fix non-working software with patches. If upstream can't be build and packaged properly we should either create a working fork individually, technically independent of our packaging project, and define this as "upstream"

[cbix]

A popular way to deal with this is

1. package with necessary patches
2. post patches to upstream (email/PR), link to the PR in a PKGBUILD comment
3. talk to the upstream dev/maintainer and have them tag a stable release including the patches
4. eventually remove patches from package

(3) can be the hardest task if devs don't respond but we should at least try before opening a fork :)

[SpotlightKid]

• A LOoper | AUR LV2 looper pedal plugin

[diovudau]

More software.

• https://lkjbdsp.wordpress.com/refine/
• https://github.com/mika314/melonix
• https://github.com/astrofox-io/astrofox
• https://github.com/Picorims/wav2bar (Development halted)
• https://github.com/rorywalsh/cabbage
• https://github.com/christophhart/HISE
• https://github.com/ryukau/VSTPlugins

[SpotlightKid]

CHOW effects:

• CHOW BYOD
• CHOW Matrix
• CHOW Kick
• CHOW Klon Centaur Model
• CHOW Tape Model

[SpotlightKid]

• pluginval

[SpotlightKid]

• https://github.com/mourednik/argotlunar

[SpotlightKid]

• https://github.com/brummer10/slowmo.lv2
• https://github.com/brummer10/VintageTubeOverdrive.lv2

[diovudau]

https://github.com/kosua20/MIDIVisualizer (in AUR)
https://github.com/GuitarML/SmartGuitarAmp (in AUR as smartamp)
https://github.com/GuitarML/SmartGuitarPedal (in AUR as smartpedal)

[SpotlightKid]

• RaySession | AUR

[derkrasseleo]

Would it be possible to add MXTune? https://github.com/liuanlin-mx/MXTune

[SpotlightKid]

Would it be possible to add MXTune? liuanlin-mx/MXTune

Probably. It would help greatly, if you could tell us the exact commands to build the plugin on Arch Linux using the system-installed versions of the needed libraries (JUCE, VSTSDK, soundtouch, aubio). and any additional information that you have. See our Github issue template.

[diovudau]

Aeolus as JUCE Plugin with some useful and convenient editions.

https://archie3d.github.io/aeolus_plugin/
https://github.com/Archie3d/aeolus_plugin

[SpotlightKid]

• Neural Amp Modeler LV2 Plugin

[cbix]

https://github.com/nidefawl/bass-studio

[SpotlightKid]

• OneTrick CRYPTID (FM Drum Synth)

(Already in extra now).

[diovudau]

• https://github.com/paopre/Spontini

[nyabinary]

Zrythm
AUR

[SpotlightKid]

• CloudReverb

[thisven]

• Internet DJ Console, provided by the idjc package depending on libshout-idjc, AUR.

[thisven]

From the current status section:

Zrythm is currently in beta. The project format is stable and we are working towards a v1 release.

I'd consider packaging when v1 becomes stable.

[SpotlightKid]

• Minaton-XT - virtual analog mono synth plugin built with DPF

[SpotlightKid]

Just because I need it and it is better in binary package:

* [FreeMajor](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freemajor) - Editor for the TC Electronic G-Major guitar effect module

#268

[SpotlightKid]

nidefawl/bass-studio

The source repo vanished 😞

[SpotlightKid]

Would it be possible to add MXTune? liuanlin-mx/MXTune

Probably. It would help greatly, if you could tell us the exact commands to build the plugin on Arch Linux using the system-installed versions of the needed libraries (JUCE, VSTSDK, soundtouch, aubio). and any additional information that you have. See our Github issue template.

@derkrasseleo

I finally checked this now, but, sorry, we can't package this, since it needs the Steinberg VST2 SDK, which can't be safely redistributed and packaged anymore for legal reasons.

[derkrasseleo]

I finally checked this now, but, sorry, we can't package this, since it needs the Steinberg VST2 SDK, which can't be safely redistributed and packaged anymore for legal reasons.

That's unfortunate, on first glance it seems like the Steinberg SDK is not only used for builds but also for the plugin itself, so it is also not possible to only provide lv2 builds for example?

[SpotlightKid]

The version of JUCE the plugin uses does no support LV2 (or CLAP).

[derkrasseleo]

As I can't even get it to build with python 3.12 because of this issue, I think it's at least worth waiting

[SpotlightKid]

Waiting for what? aubio is not the problem.

[derkrasseleo]

Waiting for what? aubio is not the problem.

I assumed it was aubio because I got this error while trying to run /build_linux.sh:

  File "/home/leo/Documents/git/MXTune/third_party/build/aubio-0.4.9/waflib/Context.py", line 5, in <module>
    import os,re,imp,sys
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp'

[SpotlightKid]

To make it clear: unless upstream MXTune updates JUCE and get's rid of the VST2 SDK dependency we're not going to package it.

[SpotlightKid]

• bw_utility (VST3, builds on Linux)

[jujudusud]

• ZLEqualizer (LV2, VST3, builds on Linux)

Anyone knows ZL-Audio?

[thisven]

Not yet, but looks quite interesting.

If we decide to build this plugins, I suggest we'd rather bundle all of the ZL-Audio plugins into a plugin suite.