[Consortium] JackLab shipping with VST support?

[Daniel James]

Hi Cory,

> Has something changed with being able to ship VST support now?

JackLab does not use the GPL'd FST code, as far as I know. It uses the 
LGPL'd wineasio, which may work around the linking problem that FST has. 
However the VST and ASIO SDK's from Steinberg are still not redistributable.

It's not actually true that JackLab is the only audio distro with 
support for wineasio - it works fine in the 32-bit build of 64 Studio:

http://www.64studio.com/howto_vst

The way we handle the redistribution problem is to have the installer 
download any extra packages required, and build the binary on the local 
machine. Obviously this is quite a brittle solution, because if 
Steinberg change the location of their download then the package breaks 
(not that it takes long to fix).

I recently spoke to an ex-employee of Steinberg who tried many times to 
get the VST SDK released under GPL compatible licencing, while the 
company was owned by Pinnacle. Now that it is owned by Yamaha, and there 
are more Linux-based products in the pro-audio market, it might be worth 
making a fresh approach.

Long-term though, we need native free software plugins, and I hope the 
attention being given to VST support doesn't distract us from supporting 
the LV2 standard. I'm hoping that people who aren't DSP programmers will 
be able to help by creating GUIs and interface translations for LV2 
plugins.

Cheers!

Daniel