Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] VST_SERVER and Edirol Hypercanvas?
From: Russell Hanaghan (hanaghan_AT_starband.net)
Date: Thu Dec 02 2004 - 19:32:24 EET
Dave Phillips wrote:
> Russell Hanaghan wrote:
>
>> The fact that you can get it to run as root but not as mortal user
>> tells us something I guess. When I was going thru my VST nightmares,
>> I could not get it to run at all...and I was about to jump from the
>> proverbial cliff ! Then Dave Phillips took pity on my feeble,
>> whimpering self...a mere shell of a former true man of persistance... :)
>
>
> Actually, it was just to get Russell to stop complaining... ;-)
> (Sorry, Russell, I couldn't help myself!)...
Hmph! I don't have to come here for that kind of abuse Mister; I can go
anywhere to get that!! :)
>
>> -Any vst-in-linux app is heavily reliant on the version of Wine. But
>> we know for a fact that 20040505 is a working version. It works on my
>> MDK box, and Mark has it working, as do several others here.
>
>
> I'm using 20031118, an antique version by now.
>
>> -Crystal is one of the definate .dll's that does work of the vst's.
>> So does HyperCanvas 1.02. (Not sure if thats what you ultimatley want
>> running here?)
>
>
> Crystal is indeed a very fine synth, I use it frequently. HyperCanvas
> works here, but I have to be careful about a few things. I'm not sure
> if it's beause my machine is too slow (an 800 MHz Duron), but the
> synth will not respond to manual parameter changes while running
> (they'll update though when I stop playing), and it's relatively easy
> to crash (like if I pick up the window and move it around a lot).
> Sometimes it just disappears from the JACXK graph, the MIDI connection
> is still there, but the audio connection is completely gone.
>
> The variable performance of VST/VSTi plugins under Linux leads me to
> wonder if the Windows APIs aren't somehow very fault tolerant in ways
> the WINE guys haven't figured yet.
>
>> Did you do a Winblows install of the vst application? If so, did you
>> do it as root and not user? I know a full Win install is not needed
>> with for Crystal...but is for Hypercanvas I think.
>
>
> I do not have a Windows installation on my machine, but I do
> adviseinstalling VST plugins by using their installation wizards,
> i.e., not merely dropping the DLL into a directory and calling it
> done. Some plugins won't complain about that at all, others are
> extremely picky about how they're installed.
>
>> What kernel are you using now?
>
>
> I'm still on 2.4 here, it appears that 2.6 is "issue-filled"...
>
> Best,
>
> dp
>
>
>
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