Greetings: Following the suggestion given at the end of the original document I've revised the README for the FST-1.8 package. Some questions: 1) Does the Steinberg link work for anyone ? I just get the same page appearing over and over, no matter where I go on the site. 2) Are there other option flags besides the -r switch ? 3) What exactly does this mean : "... it interprets transport info correctly" Is it referring to JACK or something else ? My edits are just minor readability improvements. Further improvements are also welcome. Best, dp Getting Started --------------- 0) Requires LASH now : http://lash.nongnu.org 1) Download Steinberg's VST SDK, currently available here : http://www.steinberg.de/Steinberg/Developers8b99.html It's been known to move about in the past. Also, you must agree to Steinberg's non-free licensing terms - that's how it is, sorry. 2) Unzip the SDK into the FST directory. 3) Type 'make'. If everything works correctly this should create an executable file named fst. 4) To run your VST plugins : ./fst /path/to/someplugin.dll Set up the audio/MIDI inputs and outputs with QJackCtl's Connections window. 5) Optional: To build Ardour 0.99.x with FST support : Copy the SC* files from the Ardour directory into your Ardour build path, then build Ardour with these flags : scons VST=1 VSTPATH=/path/to/compiled/fst Further notes ------------ According to the original README this software "... interprets transport info correctly". [JACK transport or ... ?] If Step 4 above results in a zombified plugin try running it with the -r option : ./fst -r /path/to/someplugin.dll [Any other flags or switches ?] License ------- FST is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. See file 'COPYING' for details. Authors/Contributors ---------------------- Torben Hohn, Paul Davis, Kjetil Matheussen, Joe Button, and some other guy (sorry, no time to find your name now, it's in the source somewhere). This document was written originally by Torben Hohn. It was revised on 15 June 2006 by DLP.

Sorry, forgot the file... Getting Started --------------- 0) Requires LASH now : http://lash.nongnu.org 1) Download Steinberg's VST SDK, currently available here : http://www.steinberg.de/Steinberg/Developers8b99.html It's been known to move about in the past. Also, you must agree to Steinberg's non-free licensing terms - that's how it is, sorry. 2) Unzip the SDK into the FST directory. 3) Type 'make'. If everything works correctly this should create an executable file named fst. 4) To run your VST plugins : Start your JACK server. Start LASH (lashd). Enter the FST directory and run this command : ./fst /path/to/someplugin.dll Set up the audio/MIDI inputs and outputs with QJackCtl's Connections window. 5) Optional: To build Ardour 0.99.x with FST support : Copy the SC* files from the Ardour directory into your Ardour build path, then build Ardour with these flags : scons VST=1 VSTPATH=/path/to/compiled/fst Further notes ------------ According to the original README this software "... interprets transport info correctly". [JACK transport or ... ?] If Step 4 above results in a zombified plugin try running it with the -r option : ./fst -r /path/to/someplugin.dll [Any other flags or switches ?] License ------- FST is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. See file 'COPYING' for details. Authors/Contributors ---------------------- Torben Hohn, Paul Davis, Kjetil Matheussen, Joe Button, and some other guy (sorry, no time to find your name now, it's in the source somewhere). This document was written originally by Torben Hohn. It was revised on 15 June 2006 by DLP.

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 09:25 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: Unless you set JACK_START_SERVER and LASH_START_SERVER in your environment. -- Lars Luthman - please encrypt any email sent to me if possible PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x04C77E2E Fingerprint: FCA7 C790 19B9 322D EB7A E1B3 4371 4650 04C7 7E2E

On Thursday 15 Jun 2006 14:32, Josh Lawrence wrote: Michael Gerdau managed to find it, and sent me a link for inclusion in the dssi-vst README (but I haven't made another release since then). It's at this highly memorable location: http://www.steinberg.de/324+M54a708de802.html I wonder how long it'll stay there. Chris

Josh Lawrence escribe: http://ygrabit.steinberg.de/~ygrabit/public_html/index.html The correct link's always been there I think I remember... Are you kidding? The next thing you'll say is that Apple took over Emagic, or some other stupid nonsense... Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael Valladolid Torres OpenPGP key ID: 0xDE721AF4 Jabber ID: ivalladt(a)jabberes.org http://digitrazos.info/ http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ ~When I grow up I will go there~

Greetings: Behold the revised standard version of the FST README. Some further questions: How to build FST support for Ardour2 ? Any other options besides the -r switch ? Contact addresses ? (a.k.a. "Who's in charge here ?!") Btw, Ismael: Feel free to translate, it's not my project. ;-) But you might want to wait a day or so until this version is community-ratified. Best, dp Getting Started --------------- 0) Requires the following software : LASH - http://lash.nongnu.org JACK - http://jackit.sf.net WINE - http://www.winehq.org VST SDK (see next step) These packages are required, you will not be able to build the FST system without them (and their devel packages). 1) Download Steinberg's VST SDK, currently available here : http://ygrabit.steinberg.de/~ygrabit/public_html/index.html or possibly here instead : http://www.steinberg.de/324+M54a708de802.html It's been known to move about in the past. Also, you must agree to Steinberg's non-free licensing terms - that's how it is, sorry. Note that you'll select the SDK version after reading the Steinberg license. Download version 2.3. 2) Unzip the SDK package into the FST directory. 3) Type 'make'. If everything works correctly this should create an executable file named fst and a shared library named fst.exe.so. 4) To run your VST plugins : Start your JACK server. Start LASH (lashd). Enter the FST directory and run this command : ./fst /path/to/someplugin.dll If your plugin zombifies at start-up try running it with the -r option : ./fst -r /path/to/someplugin.dll Set up the JACK audio/MIDI inputs and outputs (with QJackCtl, jack_connect, Patchage, etc). 5) Optional: To build Ardour 0.99.x with FST support : Copy the SC* files from the Ardour directory into your Ardour build path, then compile Ardour with these options : scons VST=1 VSTPATH=/path/to/compiled/fst Further notes ------------ According to the original README this software "... interprets transport info correctly". [JACK transport or ... ?] Lars Luthman advises that you can set JACK_START_SERVER and LASH_START_SERVER in your environment to eliminate the need to manually start JACK and LASH before running the fst program (or any other JACK/LASH application). Ismael Valladolid Torres notes that the fst.exe.so shared object library must be in the same dir as fst. FST currently does not include a 'make install' step, so you must either run the fst binary from the fst-x.x directory or copy the binary and the fst.exe.so library to a common place in your PATH, e.g. /usr/local/bin/. If your plugin zombifies at start-up try running it with the -r option : ./fst -r /path/to/someplugin.dll Torben Hohn has written that there appears to be a bug in WINE that prevents simultaneous startup of fst instances when a LASH project is restored. The problem can be avoided by having a persistent wineserver running, so just start 'wineserver -p' before reloading a LASH project. [Any other flags or switches ?] Please report problems, solutions, comments, criticisms, and anything else related to FST on the Linux Audio Users mail list. License ------- FST is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. See file 'COPYING' for details. Authors/Contributors ---------------------- Torben Hohn, Paul Davis, Kjetil Matheussen, Joe Button, and some other guy (sorry, no time to find your name now, it's in the source somewhere). This document was written originally by Torben Hohn. It was revised on 15 June 2006 by DLP.

Chris Cannam escribe: Sorry for being so insistent, but the correct link's (right now the one you include) been referred from [1]here since years: 1. http://ygrabit.steinberg.de/~ygrabit/public_html/index.html So IMHO this is the link which should be included in any docs. No matter how long as far as *my link* is the one referred. :) Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael Valladolid Torres OpenPGP key ID: 0xDE721AF4 Jabber ID: ivalladt(a)jabberes.org http://digitrazos.info/ http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ ~When I grow up I will go there~

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 11:45 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: best to just wait, maybe till the end of today.