[Ardour-Users] [ardour-users] how can I get ardour VST to detect my plugins?

[Wolfgang Woehl]

wendallsan:

> Great!  I have vst instruments and effects working now, very
> promising!

What was the solution, in your case?

> Now I notice that there is no 'native' midi support within ardour
> as of this version . . .  Is there a way to sync up something like
> rosegarden or some other midi app to send midi data to ardour which
> would control the soft synths?  I'm evisioning something like
> Rewire on Windows, where 2 apps are synched up together, hitting
> play in one starts the other, etc.  Any help achieving this would
> be wonderful.

There are a couple of ways to do this. One way is to get dssi-vst (and 
it's dependencies), run vsthost yourvstsynth.dll standalone, run 
rosegarden to send midi to it and route the audio from yourvstsynth 
into ardour (via window -> track/bus inspector or the Input edit on a 
mixer strip).

But: crucial would be a working sync between ardour and rosegarden and 
I'm not sure whether this works reliably. There are people on the list 
who should know.

Wolfgang