On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 16:29 -0700, Tim Howard wrote:
> On 6/20/07, Jan Depner <eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 17:07 -0700, Tim Howard wrote:
> > > On 6/19/07, Jan Depner <eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Tim,
> > > >
> > > > I've been thinking about trying out some of the VST stuff. Can you
> > > > direct me to some information on how to get it working under Linux? I
> > > > know I'll need Wine but that's about the extent of my knowledge.
> > > >
> > > > Jan
> > >
> > > Basically, the way I got VSTs to work is as follows:
> > >
> > > Install WINE (I used the FC5 RPMs)
> > > Download the VST SDK (not exactly sure where this is now, but I can
> > > get you the ZIP file if you need it...)
> > > Download the latest Ardour source tarball
> > > Copy the VST SDK zip into ardour-*/lib/fst (or something like that)
> > > Compile Ardour with the VST=1 flag
> > >
> > > Then, you place your VST DLLs in /usr/local/lib/vst, and that's it.
> > > When Ardour starts up, it will "check out" the VSTs in this folder.
> > > Having weird/dysfunctional VSTs can prevent Ardour from starting up,
> > > so it's a good idea to load them in one at a time.
> > >
> >
> > Did the above but I get:
> >
> > /usr/lib/ardour2/ardour-2.0.2: symbol lookup
> > error: /usr/lib/ardour2/libardour.so: undefined symbol: fst_init
> >
> > when I try to run it.
> >
>
> Are you trying to start it with "ardour2" or with "ardourvst"?
>
OK. Now it comnes up as long as I don't have anything
in /usr/local/lib/vst. Do you have an example of a free (as in beer)
VST plugin that is known to work?
Jan
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