[linux-audio-user] fst redux

[Carl Hetherington]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Dave Phillips wrote:

> Greetings:
>
>   Not wanting to be left behind by the FST/VST gravy train, I decided
> I'd compile and install libfst and jack_fst. Compiling wasn't difficult,
> I just followed the instructions, but I had to dig up Torben's advice to
> repair aeffctx.h by adding 'struct' to a single line before jack_fst
> would build. Btw, I used the sources for libfst 1.5 and jack_fst 1.2,
> hopefully those are reasonably up to date, but please let me know if I
> need to update. I retrieved the sources from
> http://linuxaudiosystems.com/fst/.
>
>   Once the VST headers were kosher I built and installed the library and
> jack_fst. I fired up jack_fst with the Kontakt demo, made the proper
> audio and MIDI port connections, and the plugin responded nicely.  My
> Absynth plugin died the death, but the SIR reverb plugin worked very
> well (I routed the output from XMMS into SIR, thanks to the xmms_jack
> output plugin). Great fun.
>
>   So I'm getting started with fst and friends. I plan to get the latest
> galan now and see how it works with some VST plugins. If I make decent
> progress over the next few days I'll try to make time to revise the
> tutorial.

Hi,

That's great news.  Could you mention (either here on in your tutorial)
the wine, glibc, linuxthreads, kernel etc. versions that you use?  I'm
trying to debug a segfault that I am seeing with jack_fst.

Thanks

Carl