Hi Kjetil: Thank you for your reply, I appreciate your insights. Some further comments: Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote: >Vstserver does actually works very fine with newer versions of wine, at >least the ones I have tried. But for compiling up vstserver, you >need the 9.12.2003 version. And worse, the 9.12.2003 version doesn't >work with newer versions of Linux, or something like that. (Ie. the >workaround is that you first have to install wine 9.12.2003 to be able to >compile vstserver, then install a newer versions of wine. The plugins will >then use the newest version of wine). > >I think there exist a patch or something for the 9.12.2003 version of wine >to make it compile with newer versions of linux (not sure which part). >If anyone has such a patch, it would be nice if someone sent it to me. >I'm still on Redhat 8 myself, so I don't know what the problem is exactly. > I'm mostly running RH9, occasionally FC3 and Demudi. I've only seriously tested VST support under RH9. I can easily imagine other problems rising from GCC updates. >I think dssi-vst looks very nice too (although I haven't tried it), and >its very similar to the way vstserver works. It should not be much work to >make vsti, ladspavst and k_vst~ work with dssi-vst instead of vstserver. >But I don't have the time / other more interesting projects. > Well, at least the hope of continuation is there. Some plugins work under vsti that will not run under jack_fst. >It would be nice if the three projects (or at least fst and >dssi-vst) was coordinated to use only _one_ version of wine, and that >this version of wine is downloaded from one place, for example a >sourceforge project place. > >But for this to happen, some person needs to step up, set up a sourceforge >account, do some coding, coordinate the coders, release things, do >some work. It might not seem like Thorben, Paul, Chris or myself is >the right person right now. Perhaps there is some coder with some free >time that wants to do this stuff? > > Users would love to see that happen. Obviously the use of VST plugins is a great incentive for many musicians wishing to switch to Linux, so a stable set of sources would be most welcome. Best, dp
