VST hosts - most compatible ?

[bsab76]

Hi all,

I'm pretty new to Linux, and I'm trying to learn both the OS (Ubuntu 9.04 in my case) and also the music software.

I have so far played around with Psycle through Wine, which I am accustomed with from windows previously, and also LMMS which I am slightly familiar with (again from windows). I have also installed Ardour and Rosegarden, but I haven't really looked into them much yet to be honest.

My problem is, Psycle and LMMS don't fully support some of the VSTs I usually use. Either crashing, or not working as intended.

I have noticed that LMMS requires Wine for VST support as well. And Psycle runs on Wine itself. So I was wondering - is Wine the only way to load windows VSTs in Linux? If not, what other possibilities are there?

And extending on that - from your experience, which program would you recommend as the most versatile windows VST host in Linux? Meaning supporting the widest spectrum of plugins with minimum crashes or unexpected behaviour?

Thanks in advance for your help..
=)

[Capoeira]

all the solutions for vst on linux use wine because wine is the way to run win-dose programs on linux

are you using wineasio?

i run fine with wineasio and vsthost under wine.

[studio32]

Please check our WIKI! If there are still questions, they are welcome

[spm_gl]

I currently use FST, and it's going well. No long-term experience though. I run it on a seperate machine, couldn't get it to compile on my lenny system, and if it does crash, I only lose an insert in ardour.