Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [ardour-users] jack_fst and gcc4

From: Dave Phillips <dlphillips@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Oct 23 2005 - 20:35:43 EEST

Mark Knecht wrote:

>What's DSSI? Answering self:
>
>http://dssi.sourceforge.net/
>
>From a quick read, how does DSSI allow me to run commercial VST's? Not
>clear. Seems like something homegrown that competes.
>
>
>
>>As far as I can tell, the vstserver
>>project is dead, and the fst project is on a back-burner, so perhaps we
>>should concentrate on xfst and dss-vst with the latest WINE releases ?
>>
>>
>
>xfst & latest Wine - definitely yes. What's dss-vst? Google didn't
>tell me anything.
>
>
Sorry about the typo, it should have read dssi-vst. But I think that's
been made clear by some other posts to this thread.

>> Also, I'm in the process of rewriting the VST+Linux tutorial, I'm
>>displacing the vstserver and fst material and putting up front new
>>material regarding my experience with xfst and DSSI. It should be
>>completed tomorrow (I'm not at my Demudi machine).
>>
>>
>
>Seems possibly a bit premature based on these results but I probably
>don't have a good view. Clearly the jack_fst stuff that's been there
>for the last year or more is probably no longer helpful to many. It
>seems like xfst and at least last months Wine is probably a better
>solution, but has it been tested with enough VST's to think it works
>well? Performance? xruns? All the messy stuff of real life? ;-)
>
>
I'm not going to put up a revised edition until I resolve the winebuild
issues with Torben's Makefile. The only problem appears to be a syntax
issue, hopefully I can resolve it within a few days.

Best,

dp
Received on Mon Oct 24 00:15:07 2005

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