[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] dssi-vst 0.3

Jens M Andreasen jens.andreasen at chello.se
Fri Nov 5 19:40:42 UTC 2004


Hi Chris!

I read in the documentation that (4-byte) midi-messages from the
UserInterface has no implicit realtime timing. Thats OK for me, but
could you please make a cross-reference to where the reliable midi, or
midi to OSC, takes place?

I like the idea of UI being a seperate app, but ...

I am into a similar idea, although by using memmap, but, as I understand
it, that won't work with your scheme? 

Hmmm ... I have almost nothing going on between engine and UI except for
that UI might have decided to update the patch (and engine might via
midi have decided to change to another patch) ...

The race is always on a single integer though. Both UI and engine
modify/use the same "scratch" area, which can only be changed one
parameter at the time. Iff there is a race, the timing will be so narrow
so that "your hand" won't know wether it was early or late. So in
reality, the problem never occurs.



On a related matter:

Inspired by the potential of "Dizzy", I again atempted to convert this
machine to alsa. I have alsa sources and modules precompiled by
distribution (Mandrake), so it should be peace of cake, no?

Running alsaconf reveals no PCI cards (expected), but also no ISA cards,
which is odd, since there is supposed to sit a Creative Vibra here? I
actually use it every day ...

Running sndconf (Redhats oldish tool) is almost as bad, except for
rounding off with a manual config before giving up totally completely.

I have this (OSS) /etc/modules.conf:

|  probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
|  probeall usb-interface usb-uhci
|  alias eth0 3c59x
|  alias sound-slot-0 sb
|  options sound dmabuf=1
|  alias synth0 opl3
|  options opl3 io=0x388
|  options sb isapnp=1
|  alias eth1 8139too

... Now what should I do to force alsa to get going?
It's a SB Vibra.X which is supposed to be supported?

Dazed, confused and "Dizzy" // Jens M Andreasen



On ons, 2004-11-03 at 22:25, Chris Cannam wrote:
> dssi-vst 0.3 released!
> ======================
> 
> The 0.3 release of dssi-vst is now available.
> 
> dssi-vst is a DSSI plugin wrapper for VST effects and instruments
> with GUI support, allowing them to be loaded into any DSSI host.
> It requires a fairly recent version of Wine (this calendar year at least).
> dssi-vst is available from the download page at
> 
>   http://dssi.sourceforge.net/
> 
> The main improvement since the initial 0.1 release is that dssi-vst
> now works correctly with plugins with complex GUIs that use
> back-channel information to communicate things like patch data to
> the audio plugin.  In practical terms, this means that VSTs with
> test keyboard widgets, patch load and save, and other natty features
> in their GUIs should work properly as DSSI plugins without losing
> automatability for the true automatable parameters.
> 




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