[linux-audio-user] Any instructions about for running a Win VSTi under vstserver

[Mark Knecht]

Dave Phillips wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
>>    Found the quicktoot by Dave Phillips using Snd, but that seems to 
>> require me to patch Snd? I'm not sure how to do this easily under Gentoo. 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Mark:
> 
>  Open Snd, click on the Help menu label, then click on About Snd. In my 
> version the text that opens includes this line:
> 
>    LADSPA 1.1
> 
> indicating that LADSPA support has been built into the binary.
> 
>  Alas, that tutorial is badly in need of repair. I'll get around to it 
> Real Soon Now, but it should accomodate Kjetil's updates as well as the 
> new libfst & friends.
> 
>  I think the Quicktoots would be better as Wiki-type thingies...
> 
> Best,
> 
> dp
> 
> 
> 
> 

Dave,
    Thanks for the encouragement. Just back from lunch and trying out 
Chris's suggestions about vsti as it looked simple, but so far no luck. 
That's for another thread later today if I cannot get it working myself.

    One question about all of this. It appears that if I run vstserver 
it attempts to start EVERY VST (or even every file!) in my vst 
directory?! Is this correct?

    My version of Snd does appear to have the LADSPA 1.1 stuff built in 
so possibly your example will work for me when I find a VSTi I can trust...

    When you do get around to looking at this quicktoot please take a 
close look at exactly which VST/VSTi's you mention. I'm finding links 
out of date on the Linux VST site for a number of the ones in everyone's 
examples (Not only yours.) so I don't know where to find the ones in the 
example.

    It's probably a bogus thing to do, and I'm not a pd user, but I 
tried saving the 'text context' stuff you show and running it in PD. I 
get errors about not being able to make connections. Life in Linux land 
is not meant to be easy I suppose. ;-)

    It's probably a too huge job for someone to really keep care of the 
VST page and expect it to always be up to date.

Thanks,
Mark