08-24-2021, 11:42 AM | #1 |
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Win vst's in carla
Hello. I've very recently moved all music stuff from windows to Ubuntu Studio 20.04 and every thing is working well except vst plugins under Carla. I have installed the win 32 and 64 Carla bridges and Wine-rt packages and, set up Carla in experimental mode and Carla can see and scan my vst folder (/home/ian/.vst). However when I refresh and scan for vst's they scan but do not show up in the plug-in database. Is ther something I'm missing or is there a little crawly creature in the works?
Maany thanks if anyone can help. Ian |
08-24-2021, 12:36 PM | #2 |
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It's not a solution to your exact problem but I wouldn't be using Carla for WinVSTs anyway. Try yabridge (https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge) coupled with wine-staging (v6.14 for now as 6.15 broke things) and you'll have a much better experience...
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08-24-2021, 06:20 PM | #3 |
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Hi, as a side issue, I don't put any windows plugins in the .vst or
.vst3 folders, just native linux plugins. I recommend using the windows plugin's default install paths for complex commercial plugins, and /home/you/.wine/drive_c/users/VstPlugins for the simple ones that are just a .dll with maybe a single support folder. The winecfg config panel has options you might want or need. There is one to make folders with a .period show up in file-browsing. This will help when setting up plugin paths in reaper or carla. And wineasio will need to be installed, and the 'registered' with commands: wine64 regsvr32 wineasio.dll wine regsvr32 wineasio.dll The terminal output will declare success or failure of the above commands . As mentioned above you'll have better luck with the newer wine 6.14 and Yabridge, than the older wine from a Ubuntu repository. But...I would install AVLinux somewhere handy, like a usbstick, as it comes with a stable wine-staging preinstalled, (6.2) and also carla, which you can then examine at your leisure, comparing and adjusting things as you go. Maybe this video will help visualize things: https://youtu.be/h5wvfDjnheM avlinux is debian mx-linux based, found at at www.bandshed.net Youtube will have a good supply of videos, so check them out. Cheers Oh, the previous poster assumes you'll be using reaper instead of carla, as a daw of some sort is needed. But carla can be handy for things that are tricky in reaper, so both can be on the team. Last edited by 4duhwinnn; 08-24-2021 at 06:42 PM. |
08-24-2021, 06:58 PM | #4 |
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For Yabridge, I extract it to /home/username/.local/share/yabridge
...quite a few files and some docs As sudo or root user, I also copy them to /usr/bin. Assuming you have three vst plugin folders: .wine/drive_c/"Program Files/Common Files/VST3 .wine/drive_c/"Program Files/VstPlugins" (note the " " above, needed where spaces are found in wine paths) and one in .wine/drive_c/users/VstPlugins paths issue 4 commands to activate the linux wrapped plugin versions: yabridgectl add /home/you/.wine/drive_c/"Program Files/Common Files/VST3" yabridgectl add /home/you/.wine/drive_c/users/VstPlugins yabridgectl add /home/you/.wine/drive_c/"Program Files/VstPlugins" yabridgectl sync (that last command searches the paths above for plugins, creates the wrapped versions alongside each one, and declares the outcome. You can then rescan in carla, reaper, or other linux daw, to begin using the ones successfully wrapped. Good luck! |
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