The 0.7 release of dssi-vst is now available. dssi-vst is a DSSI plugin wrapper for Win32 VST effects and instruments with GUI support, allowing them to be loaded into any DSSI host. As of this release, it also provides a LADSPA wrapper for effects plugins. dssi-vst finally has its own homepage: http://www.breakfastquay.com/dssi-vst/ Changes since the previous version 0.6: * dssi-vst now exposes a LADSPA descriptor as well as a DSSI descriptor, and the install target now installs dssi-vst to the system LADSPA directory as well as the DSSI one. This change permits you to use dssi-vst to load VST effects in LADSPA hosts, as well as to load VST effects and instruments in DSSI hosts as before. When used in a LADSPA host, the VST GUI will not be shown unless the host supports DSSI-style GUIs for LADSPA plugins as well -- which most do not. (If you don't want dssi-vst to provide LADSPA plugins too, simply do not install it into the LADSPA plugin directory, install it only in the DSSI one.) * The vsthost program uses jack_client_open instead of jack_client_new, for more predictable client names. * dssi-vst now compiles with gcc 4.3 and is slightly less likely than previously to crash on startup. A warning: the new provision of a LADSPA wrapper causes problems when used with versions of Rosegarden older than 1.7.0. These versions support both LADSPA and DSSI plugins, but will use the LADSPA plugin of a given soname and label in preference to a similarly named DSSI, causing the DSSI versions of VST effects provided by dssi-vst to be inaccessible. Version 1.7.0 of Rosegarden reversed this, and so works better with this release of dssi-vst. Chris