13 Mar
2008
13 Mar
'08
6:17 p.m.
Paul Davis schrieb:
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 23:15 +0100, Hartmut Noack
wrote:
>> 3) Can I use vst plugins without wine ?
> In a word: probably:
>
> http://www.anticore.org/jucetice/?page_id=4
>
> it is somwhat hard to install/setup in Ubuntu but should work OK with
> some effort. Of course the VST-plugs need to be open source to be
> rebuild as Linux .so-libs. Dlls work with wine only.
most users, when they ask "can i run VST
plugins" mean "can i run
unmodified win32/x86 plugins", and the answer to that is "only with
Wine"
True - yet this user asked, if he can run VST-plgins whithout wine and
he can. Of course justice is no solution for those, that want to have
NI-Stuff running on Linux. But anyway: wine running DLLs is no solid,
future-proof solution for Linux Audio either. If Steinberg would really
release VST under a OSI-Licence at least, the situation would be much
better.
But to have proprietary VST-plugins running perfectly well on Linux will
not help promoting the development of free software for Linux like LV2
or AMS.
best regs
HZN