[ardour-users] shall we wait for VST or go with libfst?

[Russell Hanaghan]

Brendan Spear wrote:

>
> Paul, I was planning on rebuilding my audio box to go with Linux and 
> Ardour this weekend… however, I already own lots of VSTi’s I have 
> purchased. I was planning to try out the libfst, but you just 
> suggested on the email list to wait to you have that built in. I don’t 
> mean to be rude or to rush you, but any idea on a timeline that VST 
> may be built in? so I can gauge weather or not to mess with the fstlib 
> stuff or not. (by the way from everything I have read and seen, Ardour 
> looks amazing).
> Thanks, Brendan
>
If you managed to build libfst to a working state (Wine 05052004 is a 
reliable version of wine although others have had some success with 
later builds) Use jack_fst. It's solid for the most part and usefull. 
You just need to make your connections individually in the Qjackconnect 
or Qjackctl patch panel.

R~