On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 21:19, Chris Cannam wrote: > On Monday 03 Jan 2005 17:01, Shayne O'Connor wrote: > > > one thing i've noticed is that dssi-vst won't load a plugin that has > > > spaces in its name, even if you call it with the appropriate > > > command (ie - jack-dssi-host dssi-vst.so:Synful\ Orchestra\ > > > VST.dll). > > The reason for this is that the text after ":" in your command line > specifies a DSSI plugin label, and labels can't contain spaces -- a > restriction inherited from LADSPA. > > To work around this, dssi-vst replaces spaces with asterisks in the > plugin name. (Yes, nasty hack.) Try > > jack-dssi-host dssi-vst.so:Synful\*Orchestra\*VST.dll > that didn't work: jack-dssi-host: Error: Plugin label "Synful*Orchestra*VST.dll" not found in library "dssi-vst.so" > Alternatively, the "vsthost" program in the dssi-vst distribution will > host a plugin using the server part of dssi-vst but without using > jack-dssi-host: > > vsthost "Synful Orchestra VST.dll" > wow, that did! strange though - i had to manually install vsthost and dssi-vst-gui: when i tried to call them, they weren't there, so i had to copy those to my bin directory manually ... > This involves slightly less "wrappering", but the result should be the > same. indeed it is :) thanx for that! shayne
