[linux-audio-user] Vst with Latest Wine and DSSI-VST

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:23:03 +0000, Chris Cannam
<cannam at all-day-breakfast.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 Jan 2005 16:40, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Not a problem using VSTs with Rosegarden. Just remember that they wil
> > normally run *outside* of RG and you'll be hooking them up manually.
> 
> That's true if you run VSTs in jack_fst, vstserver, or via dssi-vst in
> jack-dssi-host.  But dssi-vst also allows you to use VSTs directly as
> plugins in Rosegarden -- VST effects show up exactly like LADSPA
> effects, VST instruments show up as synth plugin instruments.
> 
> When I've talked about dssi-vst on this and other lists in the past,
> I've mentioned that it had some limitations that restricted its use for
> VST plugins with complex GUIs, because of the way it mapped the VST
> structure (plugin containing its own GUI) onto the DSSI one (plugin and
> GUI separate).  Those limitations were removed in dssi-vst 0.3 -- now
> dssi-vst is as complete a host as jack_fst or vstserver (I believe).
> 
> 
> Chris
> 

Chris,
   Clearly you're the man when it comes to RG. I didn't know about the
GUI upgrade being done. THat's quite cool. Congrats and thanks!

Cheres,
Mark