On Thu, 6 May 2004, Christian Frisson wrote: > Hi, > > Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote: > > > Very nice work. However, I think you may have misunderstood how the > > vstserver works: > > > > The vstserver does actually work by setting up a bounch of processes and > > threads, and are very very far from being single-threaded. There are no > > limitations on how many vsti's you run simultaniously. > > My apologies... My dev knowledge is too low to be mentionned. Additionally, > French people like me don't always speak English very well ,-) I've definitely > made this thread confusion during my tests, as I tried to launch two plugins > simultaneously, both with vsti, and had VSTserver return errors... Had just > another go today, works perfectly! Mea culpa. > Good to hear. > When it comes to limit the number of opened console windows, how should I define > my paths correctly system-wide? On Fedora Core 1 - seems to be relevant in this > case - appending "export VST_PATH=..." to the file /etc/profile and sourcing it > afterwards does only define the path for console use. When using the launcher > (Alt+F2) to start plugins with "vsti plugin_name", it doesn't seem to recognize > VST_PATH. > Strange. What if you replace "vsti plugin_name" with "export VST_PATH=... vsti plugin_name" or "xterm -e vsti plugin_name" or "bash -c "vsti plugin_name"" ? > > The difference between the vstserver and the new fst-library made by > > Torben Hohn and Paul Davies is that the fst-library runs the vst-plugin > > in the same process, while using the vstserver-system you run the > > vst-plugin inside a new process set up by the vstserver. > > > > What this means is that you get less contex-switches and therefor > > better performance when running many (something like more than 8 according > > to Paul) vst-plugins simultaniously using the fst-library. > > What kind of features are already planned for the next releases of both projects? > I need to get the vstserver to compile with wine again. I haven't succeeded with that yet. (not without linking with pthread at least). --
