Russell Hanaghan wrote: >>Also, please give me some more detail about how you're launching the plugin. >> >> > >vsti, namely Hyper Canvas, is in /usr/lib/wine directory. Name had a >space in it so I truncated it because clearly fst want's it that way. >Then with Wine running, from a shell as user "jack_fst HyperCanvas" >Jack_fst is responding...If jack isn't running, it complains. > Okay, a few things: Are you starting jack_fst from /usr/lib/wine, i.e., from the same directory as the plugin ? I removed the spaces too, it works fine. You don't need to start Wine. These applications (jack_fst, vsti) make use of libwine's functions, you don't need to run Wine before starting jack_fst. Try these steps: Make sure Jack is running (I use Rui Nuno Capela's qjackctl). Open a terminal, enter this command from your home directory prompt: jack_fst /usr/lib/wine/HyperCanvas Let me know what happens. >Dig it! I wasn't slamming you or the quick toot...and I think you know >that...and I am greatful it was there at all because frankly, it's the >ONLY reference material for any of the vst implementations out there! >Just saying it would be nice to cover the stuff like "oh...BTW, here's >what the hell ./mkdirectories, or whatever it was, means and it's bloody >well not there! :) That one cost me an hour!!! > No slam taken, I think you're being pretty patient with the whole thing. I'd have given up a while ago... ;) The tutorial should be wiki-ized. I wrote it testing libfst 1.5, the mkinstalldirs bug's in 1.6. I do try to be specific about version numbers tested, but I don't have time to keep the tutorial up to date. There is a small but very active community of VST/VSTi plugin testers, and I would rather see the users keep the tutorial current. Wikis seem like a good way to maintain things like the toot.