Re: [linux-audio-dev] fst, VST 2.0, kontakt

On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 18:35 -0400, Forest Bond wrote:
> I've been looking at fst, and was going to package it for Ubuntu.

you cannot legally package FST. please do not do this. its not likely
that steinberg will come after you, and neither torben nor I are likely
to either, but its a violation of various license agreements. i don't
like this, torben doesn't like it, but its the current situation.

> It would seem that fst doesn't have full VST 2.0 support, from looking at the
> source code. I've never written anything remotely VST-related, but would like
> to add such support to fst.

FST doesn't even support VST SDK 2.4, which steinberg has pushed hard
for everyone to switch to.

> I see Kjetil S. Matheussen's name in the source for vsti.c. I'm hoping he has
> some guidance for me.

Kjetil wrote vstserver, he didn't write any of FST (other than a patch
or two). He does know quite a bit about VST though. Both Torben and
myself can help out, and in addition, Ardour hosts VST's slightly more
fully than FST itself (though using the same basic code to handle the
integration of win32 DLL's and run a win32 GUI).

what parts of VST do you want to add support for, other than saving
chunks?

--p
Received on Fri Jun 30 04:15:04 2006