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An open source project I contribute to uses wine in a pretty cool way I think. Actually it's mentioned in these wine release notes - LMMS.

It's a music production studio, and one of the features that it offers is to use a VST instrument. A VST instrument is a .dll file which provides a virtual instrument for the user to use in their music project. So here we have this native linux app but it is able to take advantage of .dll plugins using wine.

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Thanks so much for LMMS :) one of the only free replacements for FL Studio, and runs on everything to boot!

Annoyingly, LMMS Windows doesn't run immaculately under Wine!

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35508

Qt file picker, I think. (The sidebar stuff doesn't work either, I suspect for the same reason.) All the code is open source, just needs someone looking at what's happening.

Aren't there licensing issues around the VST SDK which means LMMS rarely ships with VST functionality built in?

I tried building it with VST support once, not exactly seamless - not sure I ever got it to work.

I'm not aware of any licensing issues, but VST support is certainly turned on by default, at least at this point in time.

There's a clean-room reimplementation that LMMS ships with called VeSTige. Ardour3 also uses said code for VST hosting.

The effort isn't complete (they didn't re-implement all the corners), but it works well enough.

Ah, thanks for the info, must check it out.

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