Mark Knecht wrote: >What's DSSI? Answering self: > >http://dssi.sourceforge.net/ > >From a quick read, how does DSSI allow me to run commercial VST's? Not >clear. Seems like something homegrown that competes. > > > >>As far as I can tell, the vstserver >>project is dead, and the fst project is on a back-burner, so perhaps we >>should concentrate on xfst and dss-vst with the latest WINE releases ? >> >> > >xfst & latest Wine - definitely yes. What's dss-vst? Google didn't >tell me anything. > > Sorry about the typo, it should have read dssi-vst. But I think that's been made clear by some other posts to this thread. >> Also, I'm in the process of rewriting the VST+Linux tutorial, I'm >>displacing the vstserver and fst material and putting up front new >>material regarding my experience with xfst and DSSI. It should be >>completed tomorrow (I'm not at my Demudi machine). >> >> > >Seems possibly a bit premature based on these results but I probably >don't have a good view. Clearly the jack_fst stuff that's been there >for the last year or more is probably no longer helpful to many. It >seems like xfst and at least last months Wine is probably a better >solution, but has it been tested with enough VST's to think it works >well? Performance? xruns? All the messy stuff of real life? ;-) > > I'm not going to put up a revised edition until I resolve the winebuild issues with Torben's Makefile. The only problem appears to be a syntax issue, hopefully I can resolve it within a few days. Best, dp
