Re: [Audacity-devel] Linux Sampler

[Leland <le...@au...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Schnell [mailto:msc...@bs...]
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 4:18 AM
> To: aud...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Audacity-devel] Linux Sampler
> 
> On 03.01.2014 14:41, Steve the Fiddle wrote:
> > On 3 January 2014 13:09, Michael Schnell <msc...@bs...> wrote:
> >
> >> I do know that Audacity does additionally support VST effect plugins
(at
> >> least on Windows). VST of course is very actively supported (but not on
> >> Linux ?!?!?!), but it is a bit "propriety" by Steinberg. (In fact the
> >> newest official VST Standard definition even supports ARM, but AFAIK,
> >> not any Linux architecture. It seems to be possible to use Wine to make
> >> Windows VST plugins run in Linux.)
> > VST was developed by Steinberg and remains the property of Steinberg
> > and the license terms are incompatible with GPL v2.
> 
> After taking a closer look at the great freeware multi-platform (Windows
> / Mac / Linux) VST "Dexted" (-> https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed ) that
> in fact builds on "Juce" (-> http://www.juce.com/, here: ->
> http://www.juce.com/features -> Audio Plugins: "Build VST, VST3, AU,
> RTAS and AAX format plugins with ease, and host VST and AU plugins
> inside your own applications") :
> 
> Seemingly you can (rather easily) do VSTs for Linux and even
> multi-platform:
> 
> http://teragonaudio.com/article/Building-VST-plugins-on-Linux.html
> 
> I don't know the implications (what VST hosts to use, licensing issues).
> 
> I tested Dexed in Win32 and Win64.
> 
> If course regarding Audacity, VST "effect" plugins are more interesting
> than VSTi plugins such as Dexed, but I don't suppose the technical
> difference is huge.
> 
The next release (2.1.0) will have full native VST support on Linux, GUI and
all.  I was surprised how many native VSTs are available for Linux.

Leland