[linux-audio-user] Re: [ardour-users] jack_fst and gcc4

[tobbe at nyvalls.se]

Russell Hanaghan skrev:

> Dave Phillips wrote:
>
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>> What's DSSI? Answering self:
>>>
>>> http://dssi.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>> From a quick read, how does DSSI allow me to run commercial VST's? Not
>>> clear. Seems like something homegrown that competes.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>> As far as I can tell, the vstserver
>>>> project is dead, and the fst project is on a back-burner, so
>>>> perhaps we
>>>> should concentrate on xfst and dss-vst with the latest WINE releases ?
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> xfst & latest Wine - definitely yes. What's dss-vst? Google didn't
>>> tell me anything.
>>>  
>>>
>> Sorry about the typo, it should have read dssi-vst. But I think
>> that's been made clear by some other posts to this thread.
>>
>>>>  Also, I'm in the process of rewriting the VST+Linux tutorial, I'm
>>>> displacing the vstserver and fst material and putting up front new
>>>> material regarding my experience with xfst and DSSI. It should be
>>>> completed tomorrow (I'm not at my Demudi machine).
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Seems possibly a bit premature based on these results but I probably
>>> don't have a good view. Clearly the jack_fst stuff that's been there
>>> for the last year or more is probably no longer helpful to many. It
>>> seems like xfst and at least last months Wine is probably a better
>>> solution, but has it been tested with enough VST's to think it works
>>> well? Performance? xruns? All the messy stuff of real life? ;-)
>>>  
>>>
>> I'm not going to put up a revised edition until I resolve the
>> winebuild issues with Torben's Makefile. The only problem appears to
>> be a syntax issue, hopefully I can resolve it within a few days.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> dp
>>
>>
> Not to muddy the waters guys but Mark, you quoted "Going back to a
> previous Wine version was Not an option". Just curious why...
>
> Thac, whom packages now primarily for PClinuxOS, has recently packaged
> Xfst againts 20050830 (two months old) and it appears to work fine.
> Including HyperCanvas synth which I know I have Dave hooked on for
> life! :)
>
> Is the latest Wine version doing some cool stuff with other M$ based
> audio apps? Or are you simply remaining vigilant to promote forward
> growth? Not that I'd disagree with that concept but its ironic we have
> lived with using a Wine version , indeed, the ONLY reliable version
> that jack_fst or dssi would work against for the mass's that was quite
> old.
>
> Cheers,
>
> R~
>
>
upgrade i have just packaged wine-20050930 and xfst-0.4 for pclo
available now

im rebuilding them for mandriva 2006.0 now

/Torbjörn Turpeinen (Thac)