Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: dssi-vst

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 20:42 -0700, osbusters@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> Gordon JC Pearce writes:
> > osbusters@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> >
> >> what I can tell, Rosegarden is not to difficult for anyone familiar with
> >> Cubase, Sonar or Logic...but without the capacity to run Virtual Synths,
> >> it's mostly of no use to me.
> >
> > It does support soft synths. You might not have a build with DSSI
> > enabled. I found that the "real" Ubuntu version has DSSI disabled (or
> > at least, it didn't work for me), so I built it from source.
>
> Yes, I built mine from source too....it does have DSSI....but I've
> had enough frankly, see you guys in a few years when it's all worked
> out. It's not worth the effort, as far as I can see.

If you mean VSTs on Linux, I doubt it will ever be all worked out. Wine
has been in progress for more than 13 years, it has never been perfectly
compatible with Windows and it probably never will be. My suggestion is
to use Windows if you want to run Windows software, and use Linux if you
want to run Linux software.

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