Trouble installing AAS vst plugins in AVL-MXE

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Trouble installing AAS vst plugins in AVL-MXE

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Hi,
I'm running AVL-MXE, and I'm having trouble installing Applied Acoustics Systems plugins in WINE.

I keep getting this message:
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Clicking Retry does nothing. If I click Ignore, it continues and says installation is complete, yet the plugin is missing in the assigned folder,
and no DAW sees it.

Is there an installation package that may be missing? Any help appreciated.

Thanks.
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Re: Trouble installing AAS vst plugins in AVL-MXE

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That path isn't in a Wine prefix. That's a Linux location for Linux VST files (.so, not .dll). Did you choose to install it there instead of in the Wine prefix? (If so, why.)
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Re: Trouble installing AAS vst plugins in AVL-MXE

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Most likely problem is permissions: you are trying to install under /usr/local which is not writable for normal users. Most likely you will get much better success with selecting some install location under your home directory, or even better, something under wine prefix.

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Re: Trouble installing AAS vst plugins in AVL-MXE

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Hi,

You can just install them to the Wine Prefix where the Windows installer wants to install by default but then you will need to manually add that PATH to LinVST and later Ardour or Mixbus for the Windows VSTs to appear as usable..

AVL-MXE comes with some proof of concept Windows VST plugins installed in /usr/local/lib/vst and usually the permissions of that folder will allow installations to there by Window Plugin installers but perhaps either the installation of AVL-MXE or something else changed the permissions.

Further explained in the User Manual Page 66:
In AVL-MXE Windows VST's are placed in /usr/local/lib/vst and /usr/lib/vst is for native for Linux VST's
only... The rationale for this is that most DAWs will look along both of those paths automatically for VST
plugins of any kind and we want VST's to be available system-wide for all Users not buried in the .wine
folder in the Users home folder.



If you want to make /usr/local/lib/vst able to be written to you can do this:

Navigate to /usr/local/lib with the Thunar File Manager...

Right click and select the option to "Open Root Terminal Here"

MAKE SURE THE ROOT TERMINAL HAS OPENED TO THE CORRECT LOCATION AND LOOKS LIKE THIS:

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root@<hostname>:/usr/local/lib
*Note that '<hostname> is the name you set your computer up with when you installed AVL-MXE

When you are certain that the Root Terminal is open at /usr/local/lib then enter this command to make all of the VST Folders and Subfolders readable:

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# chmod 777 -R ./vst
After that you should be able to install your Plugins without errors..
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Re: Trouble installing AAS vst plugins in AVL-MXE

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Thanks everyone.

Frankly, I overthought it.

I figured since those stock VSTs were in the /usr/local/lib/vst folder, then that's where they should be installed.
My mistake. I'll let Wine do the work on my next attempt.
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Re: Trouble installing AAS vst plugins in AVL-MXE

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OK. I got them to install. They're installed in a .wine folder.

.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/VST2/

The AAS plugins are all there in both .so and .dll. format. Looks good...

Now,... getting my DAWs to see and play them. That's the next step.

Getting closer. :)
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