DSSI is also an early variant of the SCSI disk drive interface, manufactured by DEC and appearing in many late 80's and early 90's VAX and DECsystem servers. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The DEC logo Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the computer industry. ...

DSSI is a virtual instrument (software synthesizer) plugin architecture for use by music sequencer applications. It was designed for applications running under Linux, although there is nothing specific to Linux in the interface itself. It is distributed under the terms of a combination of GNU Lesser General Public License and some BSD licenses, all of which are free software licences. A software synthesizer, also known as a softsynth or virtual instrument is a computer program for digital audio generation. ... In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was originally any device that recorded and played back a sequence of control information for an electronic musical instrument. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family. ... GNU logo The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation. ... The BSD license is a permissive license and is one of the most widely used free software licenses. ... Free software is software which grants recipients the freedom to modify and redistribute the software. ...

DSSI is a company in the extended healthcare profession that provides supply chain management solutions that connect long term care providers with their supply chain partners.

DSSI is sometimes described as "LADSPA for instruments". LADSPA is an audio effects plugin architecture for filters, reverbs and other sound processing software tools, whereas DSSI was designed specifically for instrument plugins that generate sound from note events. DSSI extends LADSPA by adding note event delivery, but it also adds predefined program selections and a method for plugins to provide their own user interfaces, both of which may also be used by effects plugins. LADSPA is an acronym for Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API. It is an LGPLed standard interface for handling filters, effects and the like in Linux-based operating systems. ...

DSSI hosts on Linux can also host some VSTi instruments for Microsoft Windows using the dssi-vst wrapper plugin, which in turn make use of the WINE compatibility layer. Virtual Studio Technology and its acronym VST refer to an interface standard for connecting audio synthesizer and effect plugins to audio editors and hard-disk recording systems. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... A glass of red wine This article is about the alcoholic beverage. ...

DSSI stands for Disposable Soft Synth Interface. This is partly because DSSI was intended to be a lightweight addition to LADSPA that would require little extra effort from authors of LADSPA hosts and plugins to support, and partly to avoid distracting too much developer effort from the GMPI plugin initiative. Perhaps as a partial consequence of this early offhand approach to publicity, the number of DSSI plugins available remains small. Generalized Music Plug-in Interface (GMPI) is a working group of the MIDI Manufacturers Association set up to consider the feasibility of a standard interface for audio and MIDI software plug-ins, to complement or supersede existing vendor-specific interfaces such as VST. The GMPI group started work in 2003...

One of the major programs supporting DSSI is Rosegarden. Rosegarden is a free software digital audio workstation program developed for GNU/Linux with ALSA and KDE. It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool. ...

See also

• Free audio software
• LADSPA
• Software synthesizer

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External links

• DSSI - API for audio processing plugins
• DSSI - Taking Cost Out of Healthcare
• Social Network for DSSI LTC Forum
• The project's README file - which includes licence information at the end