Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] VST plug-ins for Linux?
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Sat Sep 08 2001 - 17:36:00 EEST
>> Finally, there *are* VST hosts for Linux. We just can't distribute the
>> source code for them since that involves redistributing the VST SDK,
>> which is illegal.
>This is a bit knotty, and is a ugly/possibly short-sighted solution to VST
>licensing issues, but is there any way of writing a wrapper for VST which
>allows access to the VST API by proxy? The implementation would be closed
>source but the header would be public, offering perhaps a LADSPA like
>interface?
a better, and simpler solution, is a perl or other script that takes
the VST SDK as distributed by Steinberg and hacks it into shape for
use under Linux. someone should feel free to do this :) once they're
done with that, only libvstgui awaits .... :)))
--p
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