Torben Hohn and I are pleased to release an initial version of libfst, a small GPL'ed C library that provides support for using win32/x86 VST plugins (FX and VST/i) within native Linux applications, with the assistance of the Wine project's libwine. ========================================================== We expect there will be several minor problems with this initial release. Please help us fix them! ========================================================== How is this different from VSTserver? ------------------------------------- This work differs from Kjetil Mattheusen's VSTserver because the plugin is loaded into the address space of the program using the library, not into a server. As a result, it is a more appropriate solution for audio applications that might support many VST plugins, where the context switches required in the VSTserver case do not scale well. The downside, of course, is that a misbehaving plugin will crash the host application, which VSTserver avoids.