Paul Davis: > > Torben Hohn and I are pleased to release an initial version of libfst, > a small GPL'ed C library that provides support for using win32/x86 VST > plugins (FX and VST/i) within native Linux applications, with the > assistance of the Wine project's libwine. > > ========================================================== > We expect there will be several minor problems with this > initial release. Please help us fix them! > ========================================================== > > How is this different from VSTserver? > ------------------------------------- > > This work differs from Kjetil Mattheusen's VSTserver because the > plugin is loaded into the address space of the program using the > library, not into a server. As a result, it is a more appropriate > solution for audio applications that might support many VST plugins, > where the context switches required in the VSTserver case do not scale > well. The downside, of course, is that a misbehaving plugin will crash > the host application, which VSTserver avoids. >
Another small point, I might add, is that the API against vstserver is far far simpler, at least for adding native plugin-gfx support. But regarding the performance and simplicity for the user, this solution is of course better. --
