>Paul Davis wrote: >> it shouldn't be *too* difficult ... > >Someone suggested LADSPA but I do not see an easy way to do it since LADSPA > does not support MIDI and this seems a VST2 instrument.
the core code of the plugin has nothing to do with MIDI. thats just a control protocol for turning it on and off and changing what it does. there is no justification for MIDI appearing anywhere in a LADSPA plugin; there are several people on the vst-plugins list who feel the same way about MIDI in VST ie. that the host should convert all MIDI data to plugin parameter changes and use a non-MIDI API for note on/note off etc. several people on this list feel the same about MIDI in general: it should not be at the core of any program at all. >Does anyone remember if it is possibile to use the VST headers (unmodified) > on Linux or is Steinberg against ? You can't use them unmodified because they won't work. You can't distribute the modifications. You could probably distribute a perl program that edited them or possibly a diff, but the diff would contain Steinberg's copyrighted material. They have said they will accept a patch that makes them work on Linux. I just haven't had time to gather up my VST stuff and send it to them. Its not hard. --p
