I hope this never happens to me

HAVE FUN EVERYONE! … You know what? Let’s have a game of MUSICAL CHAIRS!

Isn’t it an improvement if it takes 10 seconds to crash instead of crashing immediately?

Well, I’ve tried it, and Amplitube runs just fine in linux. Here’s a screenshot running amplitube 5 in Bitwig 6

I have total studio 5 max, which includes amplitube. I haven’t used amplitube yet, but I could try it if you like. Haven’t had problems with the other IK Multimedia products thought. I also own the whole Arturia suite (instruments & FX), cherry audio and Melda suites, all without issues. And lots of one-offs.

As I said : native instruments plugins were, and still are, the main ones that give me grief. Given that I had bought Komplete Ultimate edition (version 13 or 14), that was a bit of a bummer. But I’ve always hated Kontakt. And their other products were also always not quite what I needed.

In total I have about 750 windows vsts running on my Linux machine. Lots of them are doubles, because I have both the vst2 and vst3 version of the plugin when available, but that still leaves me with more than 300 unique windows vsts. If you tell me what vsts you want to run, I’ll check if I have them, or stuff made by the same people. And if I don’t have anything, usually they have demos I can try. Or you might point me towards something I want as well.

Just ask me.

Tons of VST’s work using yabridge.

Not Native Instruments though (their VST’s should work but I can’t get Native Access to run). And I don’t run any VST’s that need iLok.

Yabridge has a bug with wine versions later than (I think) 9.22, where the VST thinks the mouse is in another place than it really is.

Solutions are : make sure the VST window is at 0,0, or use an older version of wine, or there is a patch for yabridge that works in most cases, but hasn’t been merged in yet. I’m running that.

Snake

You could try zen browser

That’s because he wants to climb to Mars on his pile of money, and right now it’s not quite high enough

It’s all a misunderstanding : as they are French, they’re talking about cats!

They’re just going to throw a few more projects on the Google graveyard then

As I own Komplete 14 Ultimate that’s very good to hear! Thanks!

I did try LinVST, but at the time I couldn’t get the converted VSTs to run in anything I tried. Maybe I was being stupid at the time, or maybe it wasn’t as stable at the time compared to now, but thanks for reminding me, as now I will try to use it again the next time I try to make the switch, together with yabridge.

I’ll try that as soon as I can.

I don’t know the reason why I didn’t use it the last time I tried ( about 2 years ago?), maybe I didn’t find anyone mentioning yabridge at the time (I never asked, I just searched), maybe another reason.

But now I remember I ended up using Carla with an extension that let it use Windows plugins, which I would advise against.

If I get the VSTs that mean the most to me running well enough on Linux, then there’s nothing keeping me on Windows

I have, over the years, spent quite some money on (windows) VSTs. I’ve tried in the past to get them running on Linux, but with no success : even when the installer worked fine in wine, the tools used to get the VSTs to run using bitwig either introduced too much lag, or the sound was stuttering. Have you had some more success and if so, can you give me some pointers?