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

[Russell Hanaghan]

Chris Cannam wrote:

>On Thursday 04 Nov 2004 15:38, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
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>>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?
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>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.
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>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.
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>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).
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>Chris
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Great! Thanks Chris.

I use Thac's RPMS on MDK and I believe he did compile for dssi support 
in RG at least.

I will check it out. I already have a fuctioning jack_fst on my system 
so I'm going to assume DSSI will live with that and it's subsequent Wine 
needs.


R~