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Good news again!

I will look forward to the insert functionality whenever it gets here. As far as (Linux) VST I'm not daunted by having to build it and I have played around with JOST and others in the past, the problem that remains from a distribution viewpoint is that AFAIK regardless of whatever opinions I may have on plugins it is still not legal to (re)distribute the Steinberg SDK, this is why Ardour, DSSI-VST and FST have migrated to the clean engineered Vestige VST Header.

@lexridge
The plugin situation is very frustrating as everyone knows, LADSPA is too confining as a standard, LV2, although promising seems to not be gaining widespread acceptance, and LinuxVST has made very little progress and other than Jucetice offers a reheated plate of old GUI-less Windows VST's. The reasons are valid of course: too few developers with too little time and no financial incentives. That is why I believe Linux needs to at least make peace with the never ending, constantly growing supply of Windows VST Plugins and certainly JACK inserts will open the door for this. AV Linux supports or provides LADSPA, DSSI, LV2, linuxDSP, and Windows VST (with 2 different hosts) which represents thousands of plugin options, I really don't want to get involved with yet another plugin standard especially one that seems to be ignored or abandoned by many of the other Linux DAW's. I, like Mr. Capela have a development team of One so forgive my hesitation for the time being on NativeVST. I still really need to use and learn Qtractor myself before I put up packages or include it in AV Linux but your point is well taken, thanks for your comments.

-GLEN