[LAU] Digits VST for Linux

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sat May 26 17:48:37 UTC 2012


On 05/26/2012 03:47 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 3:28 pm, Louis Gorenfeld wrote:
>> I might, but there's also limited time I have to improve it. I guess
>> it depends on how in-demand it'd be, and how much I'd have to
>> rearrange existing code. I'd hoped VST support on Linux would be doing
>> well in general, but maybe that's not the case..?
>
> VST is one of those things that sits odd in some parts of the Linux
> community. It is not GPL, it is an owned spec. So while the average audio
> user might like to have a VST plug in. There are some Distributions that
> will not ship with either VST plugins, VST containers or VST support. It
> also means some of the people who do a lot of audio coding and maintain
> binary packages don't care too much about about improving VST support.

Wondering, maybe there could be such a thing as an LV2 "plugin" that 
could function as a wrapper around a VST plugin????

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