Has anyone used VST instruments with Ableton Live in Wine?

[Xenoslyce]

Just curious to see how well VST instruments work in Wine with Wine-compat'd DAWs.

[glowrak guy]

In my experience, Reaper is the best inexpensive daw for windows plugins in linux.
Between a well configured wine, and the LinVst plugin wrapper, the windows and linux Reaper's
do a great job scanning, hosting, and allowing registration of non-dongled commercial and freeware
windows audio items. The other linux options are a tier lower in windows plugin compatibility,
and Bitwig 16 Track is $99 compared to Reapers $60 semi-pro/hobbyist license.
Mixbus starts at $39, and is on sale cheaper sometimes.
But it's latest V6.x is crash prone on my setups. As in...poooffff...

A full Ableton license is $hundreds of dollars, so if you don't yet have a license, I would get a 128 gig
sd card/reader, or usb drive, and set up s special 'expendable' linux system, perhaps MX Linux
(to be ready for AVLinux moving there) or Ubuntu Studio. There are too many diversities in dealing with
Ableton, Studio One, and other non-dongled daws, to say 'it works with abc, because you'll have abe
and I'll have bcd, while my cousin Vinnie swears by his fgh... yada yada.

Bandlab By Cakewalk (formerly Sonar, and now a well supportrd/updated free daw)
is getting better. Paree from kvr says it works fine for him. And I've done
several successful albeit egg-dancing test installs across different releases. I've read some people
have Ableton working, but it's not 'some people' that will be investing your time and money.
A bootable modern testing distro with the latest wine-staging/wineasio installed, is where I would start.
If Ableton has a killer feature/workflow you rely on, plan on keeping a win/mac in house, and using
a linux system on it's merits, while improving your possibilities in both.
Cheers

[sysrqer]

What a long way to not answer the question.


Quite a few years ago I installed Ableton and I'm fairly sure I was able to run vsts in it. i didn't really test it extensively so sure some won't work in the same way they don't always with linvst but some do.

[glowrak guy]

I answered the question in great detail.

[Paree]

Thanks glokraw for the mention,
I've got Ableton Live Lite 10 to work without flaws in my system.
Here is my system configuration:

Distro: Ubuntu 20.10
Kernel: 5.8 Low Latency
Wine Version: Wine Stable 5.0 (installed from winehq, not the ubuntu repo)
Laptop: HP Pavilion 14 (2019), i5-1035G (10th Gen), Nvidia MX250 + Intel UHD Hybrid Graphics

Hope this helps.

[glowrak guy]

I have a Live 10 Lite license, I'll try and free up some disk space to install it.
Thanks for the config details!

Cheers

[tavasti]

Just curious to see how well VST instruments work in Wine with Wine-compat'd DAWs.

I just installed Ableton Live 10 Lite, and looks like at least 2 first windows vst plugins work ok.