On Friday 27 Jan 2006 14:57, Michael Bohle wrote:
Sorry for this harsh words: dssi-vst needing very old
wine for compiling
and there is no development happens since long time.
The "bugs" are mostly because of missing impelentations of some vst
standards like sync to host or heavy freezes when activating any kind of
midi learn within the vst.
Fixes, including build fixes, are always welcome. So are specific examples of
VST features that would be useful. Some VST features don't map well onto
DSSI at all (e.g. I haven't yet thought of a good way of handling VST chunks:
any ideas welcome) but others aren't there just because I haven't found the
time to deal with them.
But anyway, VST on Linux is dead now, beause most of
the user are not
able to compile it for themself. Thats pity, what can we do now?
Distribute binaries of dssi-vst. That's one reason it exists in the first
place. It won't solve all your problems, but it's better than nothing.
Honestly, none of this is news. Even the
jacklab.net site itself makes
reference to the licensing problem... at the same time as ignoring it.
Chris