Hi all, looking into the pure-data CVS i realized that exactly nothing has happened to the vst~ plugin object that mark@junklight.com has developed a while ago. Therefore i flextified it and changed a lot of things so that it is now comparable to the Max/MSP vst~ object. However, it's still hardly tested since i don't own a broad variety of vst plugins. Additionally the Steinberg licensing issues have to be tackled someday in the future. At the moment it's Windows only (use the vst.dsp project to compile), but an OSX version will follow.
List of new features: - fixed crash when there's no "VST_PATH" environment string found - included pd path into VST search path - made thread of editor window low priority - introduced A LOT of attributes to get information about the plugin - make editor window manipulable by patch - plugin can be changed with plug attribute
It's now an object only (no need to load it with -lib) and it's not compatible to Mark's original version.
Find it in the pure-data cvs: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pure-data/externals/grill/vst /
Many thanks to Mark for his great work!
best greetings, Thomas