[64studio-devel] fst is in the testing branch.. and wineasio too :)

[Daniel James]

Hi Raphael,

> telling that
> those VST/i's are written for Win98 is not really correct.
> Many/most of them won't even run anymore on that platform but instead
> need at least W2k/WinXP.

Sure, but VST dates from around 1996 and win32 is even older (1993). I 
was just making the point that if we hope to support plugin technologies 
going into the future, it makes sense to support a modern, fully open 
standard, and our preference is for free software and native code.

> And then there's so much stuff out there, free or commercial, that at
> the pace Linux apps are developing, it would take at least another 10
> years to catch up what's there for Win NOW.

It's my view that attempting to clone Windows is not the way forward. 
For people who want Windows, there is a product called Windows Vista 
which is widely available :-)

> Many of the LADSPA stuff is Mono only, or not even realtime useable,
> meaning you have to use offline bouncing/rendering or whatever, to make
> use of them.

Some are not RT capable, but the majority are.

> And for me the most interesting stuff is not even the plugins, but the
> virtual instruments

It's true that the Native Instruments replicas are popular, like the B4.

> it seems that wine-asio IS actively developed by some guys from
> the JAD Jacklab team.

It was actually written by Robert Reif, but was not accepted into WINE. 
I think there have been some patches to it earlier this year in the JAD 
version, but I haven't seen an official announcement of that.

> Also there seems to be an alternative VST-Host
> (Jucetice) developed by a member of that same team.

I think that's based on Jost, which only supports VSTs which have been 
recompiled for Linux (not the usual binary-only Windows VSTs).

Cheers!

Daniel