VST plugins support

Hi Petr,

First off, welcome to the forums and congratulations as you're the very fisrt one to post here. No joking, actually i's highly appretiated.

The plan to extend support to other plugin specifications, other than currently just LADSPA, is somewhat on hold atm. It's just because I'm busy with fitting other basic features in qtractor. Time is scarse but that you already know :)

When things get steadier I will grasp to the joy of having DSSI and LV2 support too. The biggest question hurdle about VST support is about licensing and distribution. I guess the DSSI-VST workaround as seen in Rosegarden comes to the rescue but IANAL.

Another big question deals to which kind of VST support is desired. I'm still not sure whether it should be like having linux native VSTs as in eg. JOST or taking the full blown win32/wine path. Anyway the later should be supported as long DSSI-VST goes in, isn't it?

Have that and more wishes coming. Bugs are not so welcome :) but you know the drill: I'm sure there are plenty so why pretend there aren't?

Cheers.
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

Yes, you can insert LADSPA plugins into the mix. No sweat.

Each audio bus, either input or output, and each audio track can have one or several LADSPA plugins chained in arbitrary order, just like jack-rack :)

Plugins are accessible through the Mixer window. If you don't have it already, open the Mixer window from the respective toolbar button or through the View/Mixer menu.

Now that you take a closer look, on the Mixer widget, each audio bus or track strip you'll find an empty square, just below the bus or track strip title name. Left-click on it (with the mouse).

There appears the plugin context menu in its full glory :)

Choose Add Plugin...

OK. I'll leave the rest to you as an exercise ;) By this time I'm sure you can figure it out pretty nicely ...

Cheers
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela