Lindenberg Research Announcements Thread

XtremeSounds · December 30, 2021, 12:07pm

May I suggest keeping your existing ones free and developing new ones for sale?

Eurikon · January 22, 2022, 7:25pm

Hi Patrick, any news about your plugin?

heapdump · January 24, 2022, 10:11am

The plugin itself is basically ready - but I still fixing errors causing the VST version to malfunction. Maybe the „used look“ patina will be dropped in the first release to accelerate things. Stay tuned!

heapdump · January 26, 2022, 10:24pm

There are only a few issues left to go productive And I am happy to announce a new module in v2 a tube preamp which gives you a warm and crunchy distortion and typical EQs…

Stay tuned …and in the meantime you may buy me a coffee http://paypal.me/heapdump Merci!

officialdjglitch · January 27, 2022, 6:20am

I’m so excited! Can’t wait to get Valerie back in my rig, along with those sweet sweet wooden end caps

kirkwoodwest · January 31, 2022, 6:56pm

i so badly cannot wait. i hope you enjoyed the coffee i sent!

zombody · January 31, 2022, 9:41pm

To be honest I liked when your modules were open source. That’s how I was able to compile them and run them on armhf and aarch64 on my personal use VCV1/2 ports. Being a developer myself I know how difficult it is to put a lot of effort in something and give it away for free. I fully appreciate your decision to go closed source and commercial. But … it still would have been good if you kept the original open source modules - open. I think you can only benefit from it in the long term. Just look at the most popular modules - they are all open source (NISTHI, Vult being exceptions) - but Fundamental, Befaco, Audible, Bogaudio, Impromptu, Mind Meld, Count Modula …

dreamer · January 31, 2022, 10:12pm

There is no reason for Open Source to not be Commercial as well. Pretty much every Open Source license allows the Commercial sale.

The Free in Free and Open Source Software does not stand for “free beer” it stands for “freedom”. The freedom to inspect the source, change the source, distribute the source and sell products based on the source.

These two concepts are in no way mutually exclusive.

heapdump · February 2, 2022, 7:39pm

Thanks a lot!

heapdump · February 2, 2022, 7:53pm

Thanks for all donations, you are awesome! Really, I was very happy and impressed by that (And my coffee stock looks pretty good! hehe)

Here are the good news:

All VST issues and nasty bugs have been killed and next week (or maybe already at the weekend) I will post a download link to a public beta of Lindenberg v2… stay tuned and keep smiling!

(and maybe buy me a coffee if you haven’t already and feel altruistic today: http://paypal.me/heapdump ) THANKS

zombody · February 2, 2022, 8:33pm

Thank you for explaining the difference between Open Source and Free Software - young people should be aware of it. What I am saying is that keeping a set of free and opensource modules can help grow the author’s popularity. MindMeld is a great example in this case. Also starting open and then closing the same modules sometime later is kind of strange to me - Leo (Vult), who I know personally, did the same thing. Of course it’s up to the author to decide what to do with his work, but to me this is a bit inconsistent. My two cents.

dreamer · February 2, 2022, 10:19pm

Not what I was explaining, but yes I agree that it’s a shame when people re-license or pull their work. Technically the old version would still be under the old license, though.

What I was explaining is that open source licensed software can still be very much commercial. And usually this is completely allowed under the license terms. Some opensource licenses do not allow this, and those would indeed not be FOSS compatible. You can of course also have non-commercial proprietary software, also known as Freeware.

So mja, could’ve kept these opensource, but as commercial binaries in the library. Best of both worlds?

zombody · February 3, 2022, 6:57am

Ardour has something similar if I remember correctly. You have access to the source and you can make binaries for personal use (but not distrubute them). The Windows binaries are commercial however. I think a model like this can work as well (also for VCV itself)

dreamer · February 3, 2022, 9:44am

Of course you can distribute them, what do you think Linux Distributions do?

All the Ardour binaries are commercial, and free software. These two concepts are not exclusive to each other in any way.

kirkwoodwest · February 8, 2022, 3:27am

pumped about this beta. i’m here to test on windows!

heapdump · February 8, 2022, 8:53pm

Finetuning thee light-effects to look more realistic. Last steps before the release of the public beta of v2.

heapdump · February 10, 2022, 9:41pm

Prepare for the first public beta, tomorrow around afternoon GMT for Windows + macOS! (Maybe Linux) More information and how to report bugs/feature requests etc. will follow. Stay tuned!