On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 09:02, linux-audio-dev-request(a)music.columbia.edu be We at muse research have some direct experience in this area. Our VST support library is closed, but we do use and contribute to Wine. We find and fix VST related Wine bugs all the time. We are using wine-20040914 but will probably be moving to wine-20050310. Later versions do make a difference in how well plugins are supported. Support and compatibility is OK especially for the smaller, freebie plugins. For the big ones (like Native) compatibility is more problematic. We will be helping with this effort by finding and fixing Wine bugs, and significant differences between Wine and Windows. Some are fixable with Wine and some will require developer cooperation. As an example, sfz (a Soundfont player) makes an Invalidate() call during the (supposedly) realtime process() call. In Windows that's cheap, in Wine it's not. The sfz folks weren't willing to change their plugin. But the folks at BFD (Fxpansion) were. A Receptor and Wine friendly version is forthcoming. This is a dead end. You can argue it all you want. They have no business interest in changing the terms of VST. It isn't going to happen. It's even difficult to get some of the key, larger plugin vendors to do anything for Linux but we are chipping away at it. - mo =================================== Michael Ost, Software Architect Muse Research, Inc. most(a)museresearch.com