12 Mar
2008
12 Mar
'08
11:28 p.m.
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 23:15 +0100, Hartmut Noack wrote:
this is a bit like saying you can probably run windows applications, but
oh, yeah, they need to be open source.
there are almost no open source VST plugins; those that are are
generally not portable to Linux as-is.
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"
--p
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.