Re: [LAU] Hardware VST host?

>But the vendors don't open up the specs how it works

Um, isn't that like, going against the GPL if they're not giving the code
back (wine/kernel patches) back to the community?

Andrew Coughlan

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Brett McCoy <idragosani@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Michael Bohle <opendaw@email-addr-hidden>
> wrote:
>
> >> Not all VSTs have equivalents on Linux, sadly, especially with regard
> >> to virtual instruments.
> >
> > We have good instruments like Hexter and so on, enough for music
> production. If it is not enough for you, start to developing other virtual
> instruments. But don't look back to the proprietary shiny VST preset
> wonderland, we don't need this.
>
> I would love to develop more virtual instruments but don't have the
> resources for recording orchestral instruments and choirs. It's doubly
> sad that a lot of manufacturers are moving to proprietary sample
> engines so you can't even migrate the samples into LinuxSampler or
> similar. There are a large number of sample libraries that simply
> can't be used on Linux. I'm not saying I like the situation, I'd like
> to be running a 100% Linux studio, but have no choice.
>
> -- Brett
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