On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 21:19, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Monday 03 Jan 2005 17:01, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
> > > one thing i've noticed is that dssi-vst won't load a plugin that has
> > > spaces in its name, even if you call it with the appropriate
> > > command (ie - jack-dssi-host dssi-vst.so:Synful\ Orchestra\
> > > VST.dll).
>
> The reason for this is that the text after ":" in your command line
> specifies a DSSI plugin label, and labels can't contain spaces -- a
> restriction inherited from LADSPA.
>
> To work around this, dssi-vst replaces spaces with asterisks in the
> plugin name. (Yes, nasty hack.) Try
>
> jack-dssi-host dssi-vst.so:Synful\*Orchestra\*VST.dll
>
that didn't work:
jack-dssi-host: Error: Plugin label "Synful*Orchestra*VST.dll" not found
in library "dssi-vst.so"
> Alternatively, the "vsthost" program in the dssi-vst distribution will
> host a plugin using the server part of dssi-vst but without using
> jack-dssi-host:
>
> vsthost "Synful Orchestra VST.dll"
>
wow, that did! strange though - i had to manually install vsthost and
dssi-vst-gui: when i tried to call them, they weren't there, so i had to
copy those to my bin directory manually ...
> This involves slightly less "wrappering", but the result should be the
> same.
indeed it is :)
thanx for that!
shayne
Received on Wed Jan 5 00:15:16 2005
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