[LAU] Hardware VST host?

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Tue Sep 22 10:18:04 EDT 2009


On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Brett McCoy <idragosani at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Lorenzo <lsutton at libero.it> wrote:
>>
>>> There is no VST problem on Linux - we have Jack, Hydrogen, Zynadd, LADSPA and LV2. We don't need this shiny bloated closed source VST with all this uncreative presets.
>>>
>>>
>> And by the way I guess at 1999$ you could get a pretty preforming laptop
>> + a good exterrnal sound card + linux + some rt kernel hack and huge
>> ladspa plugins packs.
>
> Whatever happened to the Plugzilla? It was like the Receptor (and
> predated it, I think) but could host LADSPA and VST plugins.

plugzilla died several years ago. they were the victim of a perfect
storm: a new version of windows that was a lot more stable, huge price
reductions in the cost of laptops, substantial improvements in
Intel/AMD DSP capabilities, and the high price point of their own
hardware. nice guys though :)



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