[linux-audio-user] Re: dssi-vst

[Dan Easley]

I haven't used it yet, but I assume http://bristol.sourceforge.net/ is
currently the best synth emulator solution for linux.

On 1/6/07, osbusters at softhome.net <osbusters at softhome.net> wrote:
> Thx:
>
> Anyone that's run Arturia's Moog Modular or mini-moog, or any of a dozen
> great vsti's, will realize that they just CAN't Do without them. And Wine
> makes a mess out of these plugins for starters, from what I can tell.
> So I guess I've made the right choice.
> No doubt linux is coming into it's own and I'll be able to dump the horrid
> Windohs for good one day.
>
> But not today.
>
> Cheers
>
> Lars Luthman writes:
>
> > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 20:42 -0700, osbusters at softhome.net wrote:
> >> Gordon JC Pearce writes:
> >> > osbusters at softhome.net wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> what I can tell, Rosegarden is not to difficult for anyone familiar with
> >> >> Cubase, Sonar or Logic...but without the capacity to run Virtual Synths,
> >> >> it's mostly of no use to me.
> >> >
> >> > It does support soft synths.  You might not have a build with DSSI
> >> > enabled.  I found that the "real" Ubuntu version has DSSI disabled (or
> >> > at least, it didn't work for me), so I built it from source.
> >>
> >> Yes, I built mine from source too....it does have DSSI....but I've
> >> had enough frankly, see you guys in a few years when it's all worked
> >> out. It's not worth the effort, as far as I can see.
> >
> > If you mean VSTs on Linux, I doubt it will ever be all worked out. Wine
> > has been in progress for more than 13 years, it has never been perfectly
> > compatible with Windows and it probably never will be. My suggestion is
> > to use Windows if you want to run Windows software, and use Linux if you
> > want to run Linux software.
> >
> > --
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