[linux-audio-user] Re: vst: emulate mac instead of win?

Thomas Vecchione seablaede at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 13:45:55 EST 2005


 >My idea was to run macos/ppc VST plugins on linux/x86. And not that I
 >want to run that, but I thought it could be an easier way to be able to
 >use some vst plugin in linux than running a win32/x86 VST plugin on a
 >linux/x86 system. But as you mention, it is insane... (as a damn simple
 >user without lots of knowlegde about these issues, I thought that linux
 >was "closer" to macos (because unix based) as win.)

While as you realised it is not so easy with macos/ppc  It MAY be much 
easier with a macos/x86 vst when those become more commonplace.  I am 
personally waiting to see, and hoping this is very true as the switch to 
x86 COULD benefit linux greatly because of this.

         Seablade



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