[linux-audio-user] ANN: JOST, a simple host for native VST

[James Stone]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:33:09AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:18 +0100, Michael Bohle wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > The italian DJ and Developer  Lucio Asnaghi has made a first preview of simple 
> > host for native VST on Linux. Native VST for Linux was founded first by 
> 
> native VST for linux has yet to produce anything concrete at all,
> AFAICT. developers of VST plugins are *not* writing plugins for linux.
> if you wanted to make native VST on linux easier, the sensible thing to
> do is to implement VSTGUI on top of X11 and/or one or more contemporary
> toolkits. 
>

Did you take a look at the site? He has already got VSTGUI
working on X11.. and is going through plugins at quite a rate
porting them over.. I would say it is pretty impressive, and I
for one would much prefer native VSTs on Linux than trying to
work with libfst... 

Maybe it would be better if he was porting the VSTs to LADSPA
plugins, but I really don't know how feasible this would be..
More choice is better IMHO.

The "new traction" thing seems a bit overblown to me.. From the
website it seems he hacked together a host for native linux VSTs
in 30 mins.. no mention of where it is going.

James