Old 08-24-2021, 11:42 AM   #1
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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
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Old 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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Old 08-24-2021, 06:20 PM   #3
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Maany thanks if anyone can help. Ian
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.

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Old 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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