Getting Started
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0) requires lash now.

1) Download Steinberg's VST Audio Plug-Ins SDK. At the time of writing
   this is available at

   http://www.steinberg.de/Steinberg/Developers8b99.html

   but it's been known to move about in the past. You need to agree to
   Steinberg's non-free licensing terms - that's how it is, sorry.

2) Unzip the SDK into xfst's root directory.

3) Type 'make'. If everything works correctly this should create an
   executable file called 'xfst'.

4) To run your vst plugins:
   
   ./fst /path/to/someplugin.dll

   and set up the inputs and outputs, eg. using qjackctl's
   'Connections' window.
   
5) build ardour with fst support. (i think the build files are for 0.99.0 or .2)
   
   copy the SC* files from the ardour directory into your ardour build path.
   and the build ardour like:

   scons VST=1 VSTPATH=/path/to/compiled/fst-1.7

License
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fst is licenced under the GNU General Public License version 2. See
file 'COPYING' for details.


Authors / contributors
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torbenh, Paul Davis, kjetil, some other guy (sorry no time to read up
your name now. its in the source somewhere) and Joe Button.

This thing is the best fst soft, as it interprets transport info
correctly.

Over and out.

If you like this, then update the README.
