[linux-audio-user] more notes re: fst/xfst

[Emanuel Rumpf]

Dave Phillips wrote:

> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>>> I'd like to see every Linux Audio user interested in this subject
>>> start pressing the Wine folks to support this themselves. Let's pay
>>> attention to the Windows apps that can host VSTs and VSTi's. Acid Pro
>>> is a commercial one that comes to mind. Fruity Loops, etc. There's got
>>> to be free VST loaders out there for Windows. Older versions of Acid
>>> install and run  fine under Wine but do not handle VSTs very well. The
>>> new versions don't install or run.
>>>
>>> Putting together yet another hack outside of Wine that will run for 1
>>> year and then die when gcc5 comes out would be disappointing. Let's
>>> get the Wine folks to support this.
>>>
>>> Please enter apps in the Wine AppDB and enter test results in Wine's
>>> Bugzilla. If there are enough of us entering 100's of apps then
>>> they'll pay attention. Maybe not fast, but I believe they will.
>>>   
>>
> Hear the man. This issue is really as much a matter for the WINE folk
> as it is for us. VSTs are Windows applications, WINE intends to run
> Windows applications.
>
> Torben Hohn wrote:
>
>> i still believe, that the current xfst approach is a clean solution.
>> it does no more use the libwinelib hack.
>> its a wine app which uses jack natively.
>>  
>>
> An interesting approach.
>
> I downloaded the 0.3 package and built it under Planet CCRMA's RH9,
> WINE 20050725. What I had to do:
>
>    1) Fixed aeffectx.h by commenting out lines 918 through 932 and
> added "struct" to the beginning of line 949 to read "struct VstFileType".
>    2) Linked /lib/libuuid.so.1 to /lib/libuuid.so.
>
> It built without problems. There is no 'make install', so I ran xfst
> from its own directory.
>
> The first time I ran it my X server crashed, probaby due to memory and
> CPU shortcomings of my PII 366 laptop. I restarted X and ran './xfst
> ../vstplugins/Crystal.dll'. The plugin GUI appears and its various
> controls seem to work all right. I connected a virtual keyboard to it,
> played a note, and JACK zombifies the plugin.
>
> I've only tried running the Crystal plugin, so this test doesn't mean
> much. I'll try upgrading WINE to see if that matters.
>
>
>> so someone should step forward and try to get xfst outthere soon.
>> with webpage, README etc.
>>  
>>
> I need to update the VST/Linux tutorial and I'd like to include
> information regarding xfst. Success stories are welcome.
>
> I'll try building and installing it tomorrow on my desktop machine.
>
> Best,
>
> dp
>
>

xfst worked great with some VSTis
I've tested so far:
Crystal ran well
NIs Kontakt Sampler 1.5 runs nearly like a native linux app and is
perfectly jackified.
NIs Reaktor Session has had major problems with it's menu structure,
freezed to some degree and than didn't recognize mouse-clicks

My Setup:
Debian Testing (kernel 2.6.13)
Wine 20050628 (winxp mode)
xfst-0.3

Here is what I did, to make it working.
Download the vst-sdk.
http://ygrabit.steinberg.de/users/ygrabit/public_html/vstsdk/Download/VST%20Plug-Ins%20SDK%202.3/

Copy the required header files from vstsdk2.3/source/common/ to xfst/vst
directory.
(AEffect.h and aeffectx.h)

Patch xfst/vst/aeffectx.h
I'v created a diff, appended as attachment.
Apply it like this:
patch aeffectx.h aeffectx.h.diff --verbose

compile xfst:
make

Start jackd
Start xfstified vst:
./xfst ~/.wine/c/Program\ Files/Vstplugins/Kontakt.dll


Regards,
Emanuel




start of aeffectx.h.diff
#######################################
--- aeffectx.h.orig    2005-10-16 17:30:00.000000000 +0200
+++ aeffectx.h    2005-10-17 15:27:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -913,6 +913,9 @@
 
 
 //---Used by audioMasterOpenFileSelector-----------
+/* 
+// commented out for xfst
+// 
 struct VstFileType
 {
     VstFileType (char* _name, char *_macType, char *_dosType, char
*_unixType = 0, char *_mimeType1 = 0, char *_mimeType2 = 0)
@@ -938,6 +941,9 @@
     char mimeType2[128];
 };
 
+*/
+
+
 struct VstFileSelect
 {
     long command;           // see enum kVstFileLoad....
@@ -946,8 +952,12 @@
     long macCreator;        // optional: 0 = no creator
 
     long nbFileTypes;       // nb of fileTypes to used
-    VstFileType *fileTypes; // list of fileTypes
-
+     
+     
+    // commented out for xfst
+    //struct struct VstFileType *fileTypes; // list of fileTypes
+     
+     
     char title[1024];       // text display in the file selector's title
 
     char *initialPath;      // initial path


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end of aeffectx.h.diff




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