Tutorial?

[DrMeatball]

Any tutorials on getting started with Windows VSTs in Linux? There's a lot of information here about troubleshooting problems but I'm having trouble figuring out exactly where to start. (2 decades of *nix, but very much a desktop/Linux newbie) TY!

[varpa]

One way to run Windows VST is yabridge: https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge Good instructions there.

[glowrak guy]

Any tutorials on getting started with Windows VSTs in Linux? There's a lot of information here about troubleshooting problems but I'm having trouble figuring out exactly where to start. (2 decades of *nix, but very much a desktop/Linux newbie) TY!

The page mentioned by Varpa is very good, and to make things easy, I suggest using the AVLinux distro which has a working wine installed, with which to utilize yabridge and windows plugins. It also has linvst, another plugin wrapper preinstalled.
AVLinux is based on MX Linux, and includes quite a bit of useful demo software, so you can test for what you might purchase and use.

AVLinux website: http://www.bandshed.net/

The link below dates back to late December 2020, you can follow the topics forward from there, and maybe get a feel for the possibilities in modern linux audio:

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopi ... start=1065

The link below covers the same timeframe, but with a focus more on commercial
software found to work in wine-enabled linux computers. May be some useful tips
salt & peppered in those threads. I make text files of the many tips found here,
and there, and manywhere, and refer to them often.

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopi ... &start=285

[glowrak guy]

To use yabridge, unpack the yabridge archive in two locations:

/usr/bin
/home/you/.local/share/yabridge

Create and populate the paths in the commands below, in your .wine folder,
observe the use of quotes in paths and app titles containg spaces.
These are pretty much the standard windows vst paths:

yabridgectl add /home/you/.wine/drive_c/users/VstPlugins
yabridgectl add /home/you/.wine/drive_c/"Program Files/VstPlugins"
yabridgectl add /home/you/.wine/drive_c/"Program Files/Common Files/VST3"
yabridgectl add /home/you/.wine/drive_c/"Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins"

yabridgectl sync

Run the above command after making changes to your vst collection,
or updating the yabridge version

Some commercial apps will of course have their own unique vst paths,
so just add them as above when needed, and run yabridgectl sync yet again.

Cheers

[GMaq]

Hi, to expand upon what @glowrak guy has said...

AV Linux MX Edition comes with everything you need to get started...:
http://www.bandshed.net/avlinux/

Here is a tutorial on getting the most recent recent version up and going with 'linvst':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JME0E7ooP18

Alternatively... as stated you can use yabridge, but you cannot use yabridge and linvst at the same time, in fact the next AV Linux release will be transitioning to yabridge, if you decide to try the current AV Linux MX Edition then once you have placed the yabridge folder in /home/<YOURUSERNAME>/.local/share/yabridge then there is also a graphical tool for yabridge here:

viewtopic.php?f=48&t=23449

[Linuxmusician01]

One way to run Windows VST is yabridge: https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge Good instructions there.

As far as I know YABridge is the only VST bridge that supports VST version 3 on both Linux and the Windows side of things, so...