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

[Hector Centeno]

Geoff Beasley wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 09:25 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote:
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>>Hi Geoff,
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>>Thanks a lot for your help setting-up jack_fst. I got it to work but now 
>>after some time jack_fst crashes with these errors:
>>err:local:LOCAL_GetBlock not enough space in GDI heap 10bf for 36 bytes
>>err:local:LOCAL_GetBlock not enough space in GDI heap 10bf for 36 bytes
>>err:local:LOCAL_GetBlock not enough space in GDI heap 10bf for 36 bytes
>>err:local:LOCAL_GetBlock not enough space in GDI heap 10bf for 36 bytes
>>err:local:LOCAL_GetBlock not enough space in GDI heap 10bf for 36 bytes
>>err:local:LOCAL_GetBlock not enough space in GDI heap 10bf for 28 bytes
>>err:clipping:CLIPPING_UpdateGCRegion hVisRgn is zero. Please report this.
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>> From what I found in google this error is related to wine. Do you know 
>>any way for fixing it?
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>>cheers,
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>Hector,
>Hmm.. never ever seen these errors! How long before you see the error?
>Does it happen with all plugins or just some? Do you get these every
>time you try to run jack_fst ? Does Ardour show any errors in some way
>as well when you try to run a VST ? Does it happen after loading or
>before ? How much ram do you have ? What distro are you using ?
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>Not sure if there is anything I can suggest....you might have some dirty
>ram. Perhaps set the machine running o'night with Memtest86 to be sure
>it's not a hardware issue.
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>Also, maybe Mark could enlighten you better than I, but let's see the
>answers to my questions and talk some more,
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>Best,
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>Geoff.
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Geoff,

This is happening with the GRM Tools plugins. I haven't tried with other 
plugins because these are the only ones I'm interested in using, but 
I'll give it a shot. The errors happen always after some time of moving 
around the sliders in the plugin's GUI. If I don't touch any slider it 
takes longer to crash (but it does and with the same kind of errors). I 
have 1 gig of ram (PIV2.8HT, Fedora Core 3 with Planet CCRMA kernel but 
I'm not using a smp one) and before using Linux I was using Windows XP 
in the same computer and with audio applications (including these VSTs) 
without any problem. I tried using the VSTs from within ardour and they 
work fine for some time and then the GUI locks and I start getting a 
gray box when I reopen the plugin (but the effect is still running and 
processing audio).

thanks!

hector