Jalv is a simple but fully featured LV2 host for Jack. It runs LV2 plugins and exposes their ports as Jack ports, essentially making any LV2 plugin function as a Jack application.

Jalv is a small program which is useful, but also intended to be an appropriate test host for plugin development. It runs plugins from the command line with no user interaction, is light enough to run in valgrind, and is capable of dumping all plugin to/from UI communication in a human readable format.

To make it simple to test plugins in hosts that use different toolkits, there are several Jalv executables: jalv, jalv.gtk, jalv.gtkmm, and jalv.qt.

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The latest version of Jalv is 1.0.0, released on April 19, 2012.

• Download Jalv 1.0.0 (sig)

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Documentation

Jalv includes man pages, which can be viewed from the command line using man jalv, man jalv.gtk, etc.

Bugs

Please file any bugs you find here