Russell Hanaghan skrev: > Dave Phillips wrote: > >> 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 >> >> > Not to muddy the waters guys but Mark, you quoted "Going back to a > previous Wine version was Not an option". Just curious why... > > Thac, whom packages now primarily for PClinuxOS, has recently packaged > Xfst againts 20050830 (two months old) and it appears to work fine. > Including HyperCanvas synth which I know I have Dave hooked on for > life! :) > > Is the latest Wine version doing some cool stuff with other M$ based > audio apps? Or are you simply remaining vigilant to promote forward > growth? Not that I'd disagree with that concept but its ironic we have > lived with using a Wine version , indeed, the ONLY reliable version > that jack_fst or dssi would work against for the mass's that was quite > old. > > Cheers, > > R~ > > upgrade i have just packaged wine-20050930 and xfst-0.4 for pclo available now im rebuilding them for mandriva 2006.0 now /Torbj?rn Turpeinen (Thac)
