I concur with your estimation of pitchbox's viability ...
when was gtkgep last updated?
yeah...that is the million dollar question.
Lotta distros used this program...
seems that some still use it ....
freebsd and 'buntu studio I believe do...(or did anyway..it is confusing since I have seen this for example for freebsd 8.2-released in 2013- -which is still a viable release until the year's end- and gtkgep is there in the package list http://distrowatch.com/table.php?dis...on=8.2#pkglist..)...

(correction it was on a wishlist for 'buntu studio.
But it was made for freebsd, arch and slack.. as well as mandriva, ROSA and ALT..
I know there are more though.) it depends ..also I have read in the same breath that it is available for freebsd 8.2 it has been abandoned due to lack of maintenance...back in 2011-ish ...so I'm finding conflicting info...
I believe what is supposedly functioning and what has been abandoned are (hopefully) ports .. and nothing more...

.I've mucked about with arch and slack a bit more than the rest ...for sure,
I like freebsd...but it doesn't play well with any of my computers...
mandriva ROSA and ALT I know very little about...Tried Rosa out ...love the set up...but boy I found it irksome to use....All in all...I cannot say I would be accomplished enough to be effective after mucking about with distros I am not comfortable with (due to lack of exposure).....all the way to distros I've never ever used... making me feel downright alien in...and I've played with some off the beaten track distros in my time...but these distros aren't my norm...or else I could test out gtkgep.
I do know that ROSA 2012 release actually has the gtkgep package...
http://pkgs.org/rosa-lts-2012/rosa-c...86_64.rpm.html
properly maintained too...but the distro itself I had probs with...perhaps I simply need a day or two from it to mull it over...

Correction again...Openmandriva also has gtkgep(gtk guitar (don't see why it won't work for any electfied instrument with proper pickups) effects processor)
I don't know what was up with Rosa...couldn't wrangle it...
Openmandriva I finally muddled through...weird since it pretty much IS Rosa ...
Anyway...
Openmandriva 2014.1 is what I have on a small hard-drive I use for distro testing and the like... in a secondary removable bay on one of my Xperimental laps.
Anyway...Openmandriva 2014 has gtkgep 2013 available for it.
And after running down the dependency rabbit hole on an rpm.. I am completely not familiar with...(actually I'm not familiar with rpms at all..I'm sooo ignorant ...noob central here..with my city map in hand...binoculars and camera around my neck...like a complete tourist )
Anyway...got gtkgep installed and running...
but my awkwardness around rpms doesn't help...
especially since I am at a loss for the proper installation/ manipulation of the plugins files ...
why o why couldn't they just make a deb for cryinoutloud.

But yup...it sure isn't dead...
she ain't abandonware that's for sure.
but I think someone more savvy than I will have to work this into our devices who knows more about such magics beyond my ken...
I imagine for someone who is familiar it won't take a heartbeat to do...

If this is left to me to figure out for our devices...
I'm quick on the uptake and all...buuttttttt...
oooh...we'll be waitin' a while.




It installed without any problems.
the program works...
but I'm stumped getting the plugins functioning..