[cw-discuss] Crossover - VST plugin support?

[Mark Knecht]

On Windows I've used both stand alone host and larger apps that host
VSTs. I haven't had any noticeable problems with those in a long time.

On Linux I think that the VST support hasn't ever worked well, and
certainly hasn't worked on enough VSTs to really know. As I say,
probably less than 10% of those I've tried have worked. There have
been audio problems, GUI problems, MIDI problems. It's been a mess for
a long time. That said I haven't really tried much recently. There was
a rather large memory change made to Wine a couple of years back.
(wine-20040505) After that the Wine jack_fst developers said not to
bother with later versions which precluded getting better performance
or new features and fixes. Read more here:

http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org/toots/vst-plugins/

Granted, I've hardly paid attention in the last 12-15 months. Maybe
there are some improvements but it seems to me that talk about VSTs
working has almost died out on the LAU lists. Folks seemed to move
toward native Linux soft synths as they got better and it seemed clear
no one was going to fix jack_fst.

In this area also is the state of Wine's Jack driver which would be
highly preferred by most Linux electronic musicians.

There are lots of issues but it's clear we're both on the same side here.

- Mark

On 1/16/07, JJB <onephatcat at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Yes, this is true, however, my reading tells me that the CPU efficiency
> using Linux software like vstserver and it descendants is much better than
> using windows apps like MiniHost, Savihost, etc. Maybe because linux is a
> better OS. I was hoping that a recompilation for OS X might reap the
> benefits also.
>
> Joel
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> On Jan 16, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
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> Jeremy,
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>   There are a bunch of issues around all of this stuff. I've been
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> using VST's for at least a decade under Windows. The first thing you
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> should look into is whether Codeweavers is going to have any issues
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> living inside of the licensing issues created by Steinberg. I am not a
>
> programmer but historically it seems that to use VSTs under Linux has
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> required someone to write software that is compatible with the
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> Steinberg SDK. I don't know much about it but here are a coupl eof
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> links for you to look at if you'd like:
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