[Ardour-Dev] Need a 32 bit Ardour (with VSTs) on an x86_64 linux system

Mon Dec 1 03:49:55 PST 2008

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Chris Cannam wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 03:25 +0100, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
>>
>>> Strange that it's harder to make VST's working in ardour today than 6
>>> years ago when the vstserver was still working. If someone just ported
>>> the vst->ladspa wrapper to dssi-vst, making special versions
>>> of ardour wouldn't be necessary. (No, I don't have time to do that. :-))
>>
>> Kjetil, this is a bit disingenuous.
>>
>> The reason for the work Torben & I did on hosting VSTs *inside* Ardour
>> was because the vstserver solution works well for things like standalone
>> instruments, but it does not scale to 2-3 FX plugins on 16-24 tracks.
>
> Also, dssi-vst *does* provide LADSPA wrappers as well as DSSI, since
> version 0.7.
>

Great! Sorry about almost spreading a false rumour. I just
downloaded dssi-vst, make && make install, started
ardour, and there I got my vst plugins.
Just fantastic.