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

[Paul Davis]

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.

--p