yabridge

A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux

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A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux

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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…

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2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	0	4
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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

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with mainly smaller scale alternatives (although there are good ones: lsp, decent sampler, cardinal, surge)

In I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too