yabridge

I love how windows-linux discussion is populated by DAW/VST incompatibility. I'm still new to the industry, and therefore also open minded about daw/plugins. I actually had good experience with setting up yabridge, it could have worked for me I think. But the elephant in the room is that many big commercial plugins use JUCE as a framework, and the recent release of JUCE (JUCE8) just broke compatibility with wine and seem to be sabotaging wine-based usage completely, and are not considering going back at the moment. https://forum.juce.com/t/juce8-direct2d-wine-yabridge/64298/... https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/issues/386 There are patches based on binary diffs to JUCE7, but it is just so much pain to simply run the commonest plugins in the field :/ So I'm now kind of stuck between using windows with commercial plugins or use linux

> Problems Noted So Far - Menu bar is not visible in windowed mode, can be accessed wth ALT+F and arrow keys - Program needs to be fullscreen, non fullscreen window cannot be controlled/resized and mouse location data is innacurate - Multiple Windows are a struggle because the program is fullscreen - Sometimes the program becomes uncontrollable, even in fullscreen mode, the work around is press ctrl + , to open settings and then close settings, then the fullscreen program becomes controllable again - Max for live doesn't work or works inconsistently, your millage may vary -- source: https://github.com/BEEFY-JOE/AbletonLiveOnLinux Once you run the installer, and have a broken version of live running, you then have to install the Jack bridge to get audio working, after that you can install https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge to try an

Unless you bought Audio Units (let's be honest, you knew you were fucked), VSTs have multiple options for running on Linux: https://airwave.fxarena.net/ https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge

I donated to https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge once. Invaluable for working with Wine-compatible VSTs on Linux.

> To my knowledge all VST plugins can be used on Linux (via Wine). Is that not the case? Yes, although I would recommend Yabridge rather than linvst. https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge It should be already packaged in some Linux distros, but building and installation are straightforward. Basically it installs some libraries and an executable which once called will convert a Windows plugin in .dll form to a Linux+WINE loadable .so library. You install a windows plugin through WINE the usual way: setup.exe etc (or just drop the dll if that's the way it is distributed), then once it is installed, call yabridgectl adding the path of the new plugin dll, then call yabridgectl again but this time adding the option to convert plugins (going from memory, can't test it here), then you'll have the Linux loadable .so library in the same path of

> I have added a MIDI track and it is unclear how to add notes to it. Right clicking on a track doesn't give an option to do that. https://manual.ardour.org/working-with-midi/create-midi-regi... https://manual.ardour.org/working-with-midi/add-new-notes/ > Also on Linux it supports only rarely used plugin formats (LV2, Linux VST) https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge

If it supports VST, I imagine yabridge would work fine to allow you to use Windows VST. https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge

Take a look at Reaper. It's a professional quality tool, but easy enough to get started with for kids too, its license is very friendly and the trial version isn't limited in any way. The Windows version always worked for me under Linux using WINE with very low latency, but they made a Linux port which is great. If you use the Linux port, you may want to use Yabridge to load Windows VSTs in a transparent way. http://reaper.fm/ https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge

Next to some awesome open source VSTs (SurgeXT, Helm, Vital etc.) there's plenty of closed source VSTs that run native on Linux (u-he plugins come to mind) But you could also use something like yabridge [0] in order to run Windows-only VSTs. 0: https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge

I've used LinVST in the past to run Windows VSTs on Linux with mixed success, but it was more of a hit and miss; today I'm extremely happy with Yabridge which is a lot more polished, doesn't crap out at every WINE update and also is much quicker to operate. https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge

Yabridge [1] uses wine to seamlessly load VST plugins into a host. It pretty much just works. [1] https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge

You can always try something like this: https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge It may not work for VST plugins with certain DRMs though. Update: I see that bepzi was 1 hour ahead of me. I did not see it when I refreshed the page, only after I replied.