Re: Bad new about VST, Re: [Lmuse-user] good news about VST

[Robert J. <rj...@sp...>]

Hi,

fredagen den 11 februari 2005 23.21 skrev Mark Knecht:
> > To clear up the status:
> > MusE _has_ native support for VST (with fst) but it's not enabled by
> > default. There has been several reports concerning it not working with
> > never Wine versions, even some claiming it does not work with older wine
> > versions either.
>
> Ah...a reason for me to build Muse as opposed to using the one
> supplied by the Planet. Does anyone know if Fernando has included VST
> support. I suspect not since he doesn't support any of the Wine stuff
> as of yet.
>
> I come from a place that says:
>
> 1) I have a bad memory

Check

> 2) I write songs and put them away for a year, then pull them out
> again to listen and work with them

Check...oh well, probably just weeks but still...

> 3) I don't remember what VSTs I was using at the time and need that
> info stored in my project file so that I can hear what I was doing
> when I left off the project.

Check. Not so often VST's but synths in general.

>
> Having Muse be able to open all required VSTs, load whatever settings,
> and then to make the song work the same way would be a nice feature
> for a person like me.

Indeed, it's a very important issue for most people I think.

<...>

> That's the nature of you guys developing programs like this. They are
> big and complicated. I'm constantly amazed at how far you geys do get.
> Cheers to all of you. I hesitate to suggest enhancments or even ask
> about what look like bugs until I do more work with Muse. It is a far
> friendlier program today than 2 years ago. It feels comfortable to me.
> For that I'm quite thankful.

That's good to hear anyway, it's nowhere near bug free or feature complete, 
there's still lots of known issues that we slowly try to adress.
Still it has enabled me to "finish" lots of projects in a mostly stable way 
(see http://spamatica.se). 

As for new features the coming MusE 0.8 is where most new things will end up, 
it is still quite a bit into the future but has substantial feature 
improvements in several areas. We should probably put up a status report on 
the homepage.

I would not hesitate asking for features, or asking if things work correctly. 
Infact your questions so far have brought a number of interesting and 
important issues to light :)

Of course I cannot guarantee that we will implement whatever is requested but 
a lot of the work is driven by what users want (sometimes WE are the users 
and thus satisfy our own requirements). 
Discussing features, bugs, work flow, etc. is a good thing in many many ways.

> > Long term there are some other solutions, someone (sorry I forget names)
> > is working on a port of the dssi-vst implementation to a native
> > mess-synth, also in 0.8 Werner has already added native dssi support,
> > though it does not support VST as of yet.
>
> All of that is beyond me. I'm focused on making LinuxSampler kick
> butt. Much more than that and I'll never write music which is what all
> of this is about for me.

Heh, ask Mathias about not writing music ;-) I think he sometimes blames me 
for dragging him into this endless development craze ;-). 

As for LS, that would be nice to integrate =).

>
> There is this new version of jack_fst coming that I've had the
> opportunity to test here. It works and is easier to build but it has a
> number of issues to be solved before it goes to wider distibution.

Interesting information, we'll see where this all leads.

Regards,
Robert


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