On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:23:03 +0000, Chris Cannam <cannam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 Jan 2005 16:40, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Not a problem using VSTs with Rosegarden. Just remember that they wil > > normally run *outside* of RG and you'll be hooking them up manually. > > That's true if you run VSTs in jack_fst, vstserver, or via dssi-vst in > jack-dssi-host. But dssi-vst also allows you to use VSTs directly as > plugins in Rosegarden -- VST effects show up exactly like LADSPA > effects, VST instruments show up as synth plugin instruments. > > When I've talked about dssi-vst on this and other lists in the past, > I've mentioned that it had some limitations that restricted its use for > VST plugins with complex GUIs, because of the way it mapped the VST > structure (plugin containing its own GUI) onto the DSSI one (plugin and > GUI separate). Those limitations were removed in dssi-vst 0.3 -- now > dssi-vst is as complete a host as jack_fst or vstserver (I believe). > > > Chris > Chris, Clearly you're the man when it comes to RG. I didn't know about the GUI upgrade being done. THat's quite cool. Congrats and thanks! Cheres, Mark
