[linux-audio-user] Re: Any instructions about for running a Win VSTi under vstserver (Mark Knecht)

[Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen]

Mark Knecht:
> 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?

Yes, but only once. It caches the information about the plugins parameters
and such. Just let it run. If it seems to hang, Ctrl-C it, and start 
vstserver once more.


> 
>     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...
> 

Thats not much point. You can't send midisignals to vst-plugins from SND.



James Stone:
> > 
> > How does that work?  The "accessibility from seq24" bit, I mean.  
> > Preferably in terms that make sense to someone who's only passingly 
> > familiar with either seq24 or pd.
> 
> seq24 will not start if vsti is running!
> 

What? I don't have my linux-machine here so I can't test that. But it
sounds very strange that you can't start seq24 if a vsti is running.

What happens? Is there any messages to the console?

Can you start seq24 if jack-rack is running? (the midi code in vsti is 
stolen from jack-rack)

I'm sure either/both Rob C. Buse (author of seq24) and/or myself are 
interested in some bug-reports here.



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