[cw-discuss] Crossover - VST plugin support?

[Mark Knecht]

I've made this pitch to the Wine developers and never even received
the honor of a reply.

I don't personally see this as a Codeweavers specific thing. There are
deep, deep problems (apparently) with Wine and VSTs. Many - probably
most - do not run correctly. Some run great.

I suggest you look into SaviHost as a VST platform under Linux/Wine.
At least it makes it easy to figure out pretty quickly whether a
specific VST is likely to run.

HTH,
Mark

On 1/15/07, JJB <onephatcat at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Dear Crossover developers
>
> There has been several rather successful WINE based attempts to
> create systems for running windows VST audio plugins, the most
> popular audio plugin format, under Linux. Since your system is based
> on WINE, I was thinking the following:
>
> Would it be possible to build a very limited version of Crossover
> that does nothing but run VST plugins? For those of us who have
> switched to Mac and just want that functionality, it would be great
> if there was a simple install and host that could be used to run all
> those thousands and thousands of plugins, many of which are freeware,
> on OS X. Currently there are perhaps 15-20  freeware VST plugins for
> OS X, lots more commercial ones, but some of the PC vst plugins, even
> the free ones are really quite exceptional.
>
> The original, now abandoned project was called vstserver, the newer
> standard appears to be somewhat more complex, but apparently does a
> better job of running VST plugins: DSSI a standard for Linux audio
> plugins with a wrapper that allows pc VST plugins to run. Another
> project that appears to have success in the same area is FST-jack.
>
> If any of these could be made to run under OS X, it would be truly
> wonderful. Even better if it had a GUI on it...
>
> Here is the page to look at for overall info: http://
> ladspavst.linuxaudio.org/?intro=1
>
> Sourcecode for vstserver appears to be here: http://www.notam02.no/
> arkiv/src/
>
> Thanks, let me know if there is anything in the works like this,
>
> Joel
>
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