[linux-audio-user] Audacity/Windows/Plugins

[Mark Knecht]

jdd wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>    Sorry, but a very non-linux question.
>>
>>    I wonder if anyone here can say anyting about how the Windows 
>> version of Audacity works? Is it stable? Does the VST enabler work? Is 
>> it stable? Does it only provide for audio suite/non-realtime operation 
>> on Audacity Audio, or does it allow Audacity to become a VSti platform 
>> of any type?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Mark
>>
>>
> I'm not sure of what you mean about "VST station", but I do multitrack 
> (sequencial) recording with audacity windows (my game theater card is 
> not so well recognised by linux, alas)
> 
> when recording the second track, there is a small (1/100s?) delay 
> between the first track and the new recorded one, but this is easily 
> corrected manually by shifting the second one.
> 
> jdd
> 

jdd,
    Sorry I wasn't that clear. When I first worte I was wondering if 
Audacity handles VSTi's as opposed to just VST's. I don't want to record 
using Audacity. I was wondering if Audacity could serve as a simple VSTi 
host. From further reading I think it won't.

    I'm currently using Pro Tools under Win XP on one machine and on 
another I use Acid Pro under Win ME to host VSTi's. Acid accepts MIDI 
input, for instance, and generates audio output using it's own Tempo 
sync. I then fly the audio back to Pro Tools to record.

    Since writing the first message here I Spent some time looking at 
the Audacity-help archives. I think I won't even bother loading 
Audacity. It appear the community is not very helpful. It looks like 
fewer than 20% of the requests there get even a single response. I did 
better here getting 3 responses than anyone has there in the month of 
April! ;-)

    Thanks for all the response, even Russell's! ;-)

    Off to find a more simple VSTi platform for my system. Sorry, but 
I'm just not up to loading a 4th version of Wine so that I can attempt 
to do this under Linux. I currently have 3 Wine versions running. I wish 
these Wine guys would converge, or the Linux VST Server project would 
choose a release that these other major projects are using.

Cheers,
Mark