HI I'm so glad I didnt get into the Soanr/windows stuff so much!! As for VST's I dindt realy use all that many and Ardour seems to have rooms full of effects. It just a matter of learning a few really nice ones and changing them to suit. Some of the vst eq's were nice but there are more on Linux. I actually forgot that my HDa has XP on it, wonder if it will still boot up??? It's only there for the bits of video to sound I do, and I get the feeling thats being worked on now in Linux!! Cheers Bob Shayne O'Connor wrote: > davidrclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Brad mentioned VST Plugins in an earlier post. I've had no luck at all >> with any of the Linux methods. > > > have you posted any of the problems you had with using these methods? > your only chance of happiness in this area is to get jack_fst or > dssi-vst happening. > > I have had perfect success with a > >> "free" version of Muzsys that Computer Music Magazine had on one of >> their >> CD's: CompMuzsys. This works flawlessly under WINE. It is an "entry >> level" piece of software, but does have fairly good mixing. It has >> lots of latency and only primitive MIDI editing. But if I'm in Linux >> and want to do something quickly without rebooting, this is the way >> I go. CompMuzsys is the only Windows audio program that I have seen >> that works under Linux just like it does under Windows. I have dozens >> of VST and VSTi Plugins, and every single one of them works. > > > yeah, muzys works well, but rosegarden/muse work better. > >> This shows that IT IS POSSIBLE. I find it amusing that to run VST or >> VSTi plugins, I had to install a piece of Windows software. > > > well, most VST plugins *are* windows software. > > > It makes me > >> wonder if the future of music production using GNU/Linux is to run >> (entry >> level) Windows audio software under WINE. >> >> >> > > definitely not ... you're gonna be in for a lot of frustration if you > take this approach. it is the approach i took when first using linux > audio - the first step for a windows convert is always to try getting > every program they used on windows to work on linux. bit of advice - > stop this quest now, and get hip with linux audio apps. > > shayne >
