Re: [Consortium] JackLab shipping with VST support?

Hi Cory, JackLab does not use the GPL'd FST code, as far as I know. It uses the LGPL'd wineasio, which may work around the linking problem that FST has. However the VST and ASIO SDK's from Steinberg are still not redistributable. It's not actually true that JackLab is the only audio distro with support for wineasio - it works fine in the 32-bit build of 64 Studio: http://www.64studio.com/howto_vst The way we handle the redistribution problem is to have the installer download any extra packages required, and build the binary on the local machine. Obviously this is quite a brittle solution, because if Steinberg change the location of their download then the package breaks (not that it takes long to fix). I recently spoke to an ex-employee of Steinberg who tried many times to get the VST SDK released under GPL compatible licencing, while the company was owned by Pinnacle. Now that it is owned by Yamaha, and there are more Linux-based products in the pro-audio market, it might be worth making a fresh approach. Long-term though, we need native free software plugins, and I hope the attention being given to VST support doesn't distract us from supporting the LV2 standard. I'm hoping that people who aren't DSP programmers will be able to help by creating GUIs and interface translations for LV2 plugins. Cheers! Daniel