Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] [ANN] dssi-vst 0.3
From: Russell Hanaghan (hanaghan_AT_starband.net)
Date: Thu Nov 04 2004 - 18:00:49 EET
Chris Cannam wrote:
>On Thursday 04 Nov 2004 15:38, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
>
>
>>So in a brief outline, how do I use this? Is it a requirement that
>>the app supports it? Can I use it with RG and Muse? If so, how?
>>
>>
>
>You can use DSSI plugins directly in an app that supports hosting them,
>such as Rosegarden. They should be picked up automatically in exactly
>the same way as LADSPA plugins are. The app will need to have been
>configured with DSSI support, however, and if it's a packaged version
>it might not have been.
>
>Alternatively, you can effectively turn any DSSI plugin into a
>standalone JACK/ALSA-sequencer soft synth by using the jack-dssi-host
>program provided with the DSSI distribution. This is a minimal host
>that just runs the plugins named on the command line, providing JACK
>inputs and outputs and ALSA sequencer MIDI input. This would allow you
>to use (for example) the hexter DX7 synth with MusE.
>
>jack-dssi-host is also capable of being invoked through a symbolic link:
>if you create a link to it called /usr/bin/hexter (for example), then
>when invoked via that link it will look for hexter.so and run the first
>plugin found in it automatically. This means a plugin can be installed
>both as a plugin (hexter.so) and as what looks like a true
>ALSA-seq/JACK synth application (the hexter symbolic link).
>
>
>Chris
>
>
>
Great! Thanks Chris.
I use Thac's RPMS on MDK and I believe he did compile for dssi support
in RG at least.
I will check it out. I already have a fuctioning jack_fst on my system
so I'm going to assume DSSI will live with that and it's subsequent Wine
needs.
R~
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