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

[Chris Cannam]

On Thursday 04 Nov 2004 15:38, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
> So in a brief outline, how do I use this? Is it a requirement that
> the app supports it? Can I use it with RG and Muse? If so, how?

You can use DSSI plugins directly in an app that supports hosting them, 
such as Rosegarden.  They should be picked up automatically in exactly 
the same way as LADSPA plugins are.  The app will need to have been 
configured with DSSI support, however, and if it's a packaged version 
it might not have been.

Alternatively, you can effectively turn any DSSI plugin into a 
standalone JACK/ALSA-sequencer soft synth by using the jack-dssi-host 
program provided with the DSSI distribution.  This is a minimal host 
that just runs the plugins named on the command line, providing JACK 
inputs and outputs and ALSA sequencer MIDI input.  This would allow you 
to use (for example) the hexter DX7 synth with MusE.

jack-dssi-host is also capable of being invoked through a symbolic link: 
if you create a link to it called /usr/bin/hexter (for example), then 
when invoked via that link it will look for hexter.so and run the first 
plugin found in it automatically.  This means a plugin can be installed 
both as a plugin (hexter.so) and as what looks like a true 
ALSA-seq/JACK synth application (the hexter symbolic link).


Chris