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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:33:09AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:

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> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:18 +0100, Michael Bohle wrote:

> > Hi there,

> >

> > The italian DJ and Developer  Lucio Asnaghi has made a first preview of simple

> > host for native VST on Linux. Native VST for Linux was founded first by

>

> native VST for linux has yet to produce anything concrete at all,

> AFAICT. developers of VST plugins are *not* writing plugins for linux.

> if you wanted to make native VST on linux easier, the sensible thing to

> do is to implement VSTGUI on top of X11 and/or one or more contemporary

> toolkits.

>

Did you take a look at the site? He has already got VSTGUI

working on X11.. and is going through plugins at quite a rate

porting them over.. I would say it is pretty impressive, and I

for one would much prefer native VSTs on Linux than trying to

work with libfst... 
Maybe it would be better if he was porting the VSTs to LADSPA

plugins, but I really don't know how feasible this would be..

More choice is better IMHO.
The "new traction" thing seems a bit overblown to me.. From the

website it seems he hacked together a host for native linux VSTs

in 30 mins.. no mention of where it is going.
James