[linux-audio-user] VST_SERVER and Edirol Hypercanvas?

[Dave Phillips]

Russell Hanaghan wrote:

>>Also, please give me some more detail about how you're launching the plugin.
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>vsti, namely Hyper Canvas, is in /usr/lib/wine directory. Name had a
>space in it so I truncated it because clearly fst want's it that way.
>Then with Wine running, from a shell as user "jack_fst HyperCanvas"
>Jack_fst is responding...If jack isn't running, it complains.
>
Okay, a few things:

  Are you starting jack_fst from /usr/lib/wine, i.e., from the same 
directory as the plugin ?
  I removed the spaces too, it works fine.
  You don't need to start Wine. These applications (jack_fst, vsti) make 
use of libwine's functions, you don't need to run Wine before starting 
jack_fst.
 
Try these steps:

  Make sure Jack is running (I use Rui Nuno Capela's qjackctl).
  Open a terminal, enter this command from your home directory prompt:

    jack_fst /usr/lib/wine/HyperCanvas

Let me know what happens.

>Dig it!  I wasn't slamming you or the quick toot...and I think you know
>that...and I am greatful it was there at all because frankly, it's the
>ONLY reference material for any of the vst implementations out there!
>Just saying it would be nice to cover the stuff like "oh...BTW, here's
>what the hell ./mkdirectories, or whatever it was, means and it's bloody
>well not there! :)  That one cost me an hour!!! 
>
No slam taken, I think you're being pretty patient with the whole thing. 
I'd have given up a while ago... ;)

The tutorial should be wiki-ized. I wrote it testing libfst 1.5, the 
mkinstalldirs bug's in 1.6. I do try to be specific about version 
numbers tested, but I don't have time to keep the tutorial up to date. 
There is a small but very active community of VST/VSTi plugin testers, 
and I would rather see the users keep the tutorial current. Wikis seem 
like a good way to maintain things like the toot.