24 Aug
2008
24 Aug
'08
9:03 a.m.
Hi
I recently bought energyXT2 (commercial, native linux daw) and now I'm
looking for vst plugins. It seems that the program could be run through
wine (supporting windows vsts in dll-format), but somehow I have the
feeling that running the native version is faster and should be more
stable. So my questions are:
1) What would must-haves native-linux vsts (I have freeverb, the mda's
and the loser-plugins + a few more)?
2) I contacted the author of glitch (http://illformed.org/blog/glitch/),
which seems like a really cool tool, asking if was interested in
providing a linux version of glitch. Can anything in general be said
regarding how hard it would be to supply a linux version? I guess it's
not only a matter of under compiling, right? I'm willing to help as much
as I can, but my programming is no that great, are others interesting in
helping, for instance by porting glitch, should the developer be willing
to play along.
3) I know there are some non-free issues with vsts, but what exactly are
those, and provided I'm right in assuming that the linux audio (dev)
community has a negative attitude vsts, what would the main arguments
against it be?
4) Anyone here using vsts (both native and windows)? If so how do you
use them, in which hosts, and with which benefits/problems? Who do you
use them over dssi or ladspa alternatives?
Looking forward to hearing from you!
--
peace, love & harmony
Atte
http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen
http://anagrammer.dk | http://modlys.dk
24 Aug
24 Aug
9:34 a.m.
Atte André Jensen wrote:
1) What would must-haves native-linux vsts (I have
freeverb, the mda's
and the loser-plugins + a few more)?
The pizmidi set is excellent. The MDA stuff includes some nice plugs,
and be sure to look at the ports done by Lucio Asnaghi.
http://www.anticore.org/jucetice/
2) I contacted the author of glitch
(http://illformed.org/blog/glitch/),
which seems like a really cool tool, asking if was interested in
providing a linux version of glitch. Can anything in general be said
regarding how hard it would be to supply a linux version? I guess it's
not only a matter of under compiling, right? I'm willing to help as much
as I can, but my programming is no that great, are others interesting in
helping, for instance by porting glitch, should the developer be willing
to play along.
While I applaud the work of anyone porting Windows VSTs to a Linux VST
format, I'd really like to see those plugs (and many others) get ported
to LV2.
You should write directly to Lucio, he's done this kind of thing already
and can give you more technical advice.
3) I know there are some non-free issues with vsts,
but what exactly are
those, and provided I'm right in assuming that the linux audio (dev)
community has a negative attitude vsts, what would the main arguments
against it be?
Quite above & beyond any technical dissatisfaction there's the license
issue. Steinberg's SDK is not compatible with FOSS licenses, and it's a
real show-stopper. While it doesn't appear that Steinberg & Co. are
preparing a massive "cease & desist" campaign, that doesn't fix the
issue.
4) Anyone here using vsts (both native and windows)?
If so how do you
use them, in which hosts, and with which benefits/problems? Who do you
use them over dssi or ladspa alternatives?
Natively, the pizmidi plugs have no Linux equivalent. MIDI development
in Linux is not very healthy at the moment. The MDA JX plugin is another
favorite here. I run those plugins in Lucio's excellent JOST system.
I don't use many native Windows plugs, but when I do they tend to be the
Luxonix LFX-1310 multifx processor, the Crystal synth, the 4ormulator
vocoder, and maybe a very few others. Occasionally I use the SIR
convolution reverb.
However, I don't use much processing at all, so most of my work with
VST/VSTi plugs (Linux or Windows) tends to be experimental more than
productive. I do like the variety of VSTi plugins, it would be nice to
have such a variety of synths for Linux.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
HTH,
dp
1:46 p.m.
Am Sonntag, 24. August 2008 13:03:40 schrieb Atte André Jensen:
4) Anyone here using vsts (both native and windows)?
If so how do you
use them, in which hosts, and with which benefits/problems? Who do you
use them over dssi or ladspa alternatives?
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Hi Atte,
I am using dssi-vst + wine to run my B4II Hammond organ simulation. I have
found this to be the most foolproof and neat solution. The graphical user
interface of the B4II is supported and displays without errors.
Initially I used to have some issues running the vst related to the wine
version I was using and there used to be a recommendation of a particular
version of wine that appeared to work with dssi-vst. This is outdated as
latest wine versions have never caused any trouble any more.
I do not compile neither wine nor dssi-vst as I have never had much success
doing that, there have always been some issues like which path to the vst to
include and/or how to include jack interface etc. I simply download *.deb
packages which install and run just fine on my sidux linux system.
The B4II runs really nicely with low latency and a great sound quality. I
bought a terratec Aureon USB interface that has optical S/PDIF connectors
which connect to my audio amplifier that has a TOS-link itself. So no humming
issues here - and it all connects to /runs on my notebook.
Regards,
Crypto.
2:38 p.m.
didn't Jorgen from energy XT add some native Linux VST stuff recently?
you might want to check...
thanks
ron
www.indamixx.com
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Atte André Jensen
<atte.jensen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
I recently bought energyXT2 (commercial, native linux daw) and now I'm
looking for vst plugins. It seems that the program could be run through
wine (supporting windows vsts in dll-format), but somehow I have the
feeling that running the native version is faster and should be more
stable. So my questions are:
1) What would must-haves native-linux vsts (I have freeverb, the mda's
and the loser-plugins + a few more)?
2) I contacted the author of glitch (http://illformed.org/blog/glitch/),
which seems like a really cool tool, asking if was interested in
providing a linux version of glitch. Can anything in general be said
regarding how hard it would be to supply a linux version? I guess it's
not only a matter of under compiling, right? I'm willing to help as much
as I can, but my programming is no that great, are others interesting in
helping, for instance by porting glitch, should the developer be willing
to play along.
3) I know there are some non-free issues with vsts, but what exactly are
those, and provided I'm right in assuming that the linux audio (dev)
community has a negative attitude vsts, what would the main arguments
against it be?
4) Anyone here using vsts (both native and windows)? If so how do you
use them, in which hosts, and with which benefits/problems? Who do you
use them over dssi or ladspa alternatives?
Looking forward to hearing from you!
--
peace, love & harmony
Atte
http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen
http://anagrammer.dk | http://modlys.dk
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