On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 12:16:28PM -0500, Russell Hanaghan wrote: someone on irc sent me smoething called 'xfst' which believe it or not built out of the box, on amd64 no less, with wine-20050310. the only downside is, it requires running 2 jackd's here, one in 32bit, one in 64bit, and connecting the two over loopback via UDP. so i havent bothered to actually use it much.. note to whoever wrote xfst: i had much better luck with it than the alternate options out there, care to put it up on sourceforge or something?

Russell Hanaghan wrote: it works fine for me on wine 20041201 - pretty sure it even works on some of this year's wines (not sure about the most recent version). unfortunately, ardour will only work with VST support if you use wine 20040505 - which sorta sucks, cos dssi-vst does not seem to work with this version (which gives you a choice between rosegarden with vst, or ardour with vst - i'm gonna go with rosegarden and vst, then just hook up any jack_fst i need in ardour through jack). could be a problem if you're using wine 20040505 - try going to wine 20041201. also - i've noticed when installing dssi-vst that it doesn't copy some of the executable scripts to the /usr/bin (or wherever) directory, so some have to be copied manually (vsthost and *_gui, i think). actually, most of it seems to be stuck in the past ... most people assume that dssi-vst, jack_fst will not work with the latest versions of wine, but this is not true (vst-server, though, is absolutely obsolete as far as i can see). what would be good is being able to set the VST_PATH environment variable from *within* either ardour or rosegarden ... setting the enviroment variable has been a bit of a pain for me. it would also be ideal if the developers of dssi-vst and jack_fst could have a look at these plugins in the context of later wine releases - maybe agreeing on a more recent wine to support than 20040505? shayne

Russell Hanaghan wrote: that's edirol orchestral? yeah, it works ... well, i *know* it works with dssi-vst, can't remember about jack_fst but probly cos most of the dssi ones work with fst. there's also synful orchestra (?) that works with one or both of them, too. i recommend you use wine20041201. say what?

shayne

dssi-vst works using the dssi packages from planet CCRMA (you just need to build dssi-vst). This also works well, but you can only use one vst instrument at a time.

I take the oportunity to report that absynth2, though working takes a long time to load, because the patch names seem to load very slow. It's probably that absynth uses some special mechanism for determining patch names, which makes is very slow. Maybe there can be a way of avoiding querying for patch names?