The number of new LV2 plugins being released is steadily growing. The last couple of months at least the following LV2 plugins have been released:
- Bitrot (a set of LV2 and LADSPA plugins for glitch effects)
- beatslash-lv2 (a set of plugins for live beat repeating and beat slicing)
- deteriorate-lv2 (a set of plugins to deteriorate the sound quality of live inputs)
- midimsg-lv2 (a set of plugins to transform midi output into usable values to control other plugins)
- QmidiArp (LV2 plugins of the three QMidiArp modules)
- x42-plugins (collection of LV2 plugins: tuner, oscillator, x-fader, audio-level meters, midi filters etc.)
- BLOP-LV2 (port of the LADSPA BLOP plugins)
Haven’t tried them all of them yet but the ones I did try (the QmidiArp modules as plugins and some of the x42 plugins) proved to be very promising. Besides new plugins being released work continues on a great number of plugins, the LV2 framework itself and on tools facilitating in the creation or building of LV2 plugins. Especially falkTX is in the vanguard with his current work on getting his Carla plugin host to work as a LV2 plugin. This would open up a lot of possibilities like using it in hosts that don’t support all plugin frameworks (think Ardour and DSSI support). In the meanwhile the guitarix team continues to add great LV2 plugins to their ever growing collection and Dave Robillard, the main author of LV2, doesn’t sit still either with releasing updated versions of the building blocks that form the LV2 framework.
