Can't get Ardour to recognize JDrummer

Installation & Configuration Linux
#1

Hi all I hope this is in the right place.

I am trying to install JDrummer. I put the whole jdrummer.vst directory in my (myhome)/.vst3 directory and always get an "Invalid path ‘’ " error. Does the same no matter where I try to put it. Internal paths in the vst folder appear correct. Anyone see what I’m doing wrong, or have any suggestions? I downloaded the premade JDrummer because couldn’t get the build to work (failed at detecting how many cores I had - no build rule for 4). Am running on an RPI 5. Thank you.

#2

Just as a feedback:
It does work here, also the prebuild version, but on a PC
I don’t remember any problems and just put jdrummer.vst3 in ~/vst3

Sorry i can’t help any further, just a short note it is possible and you might not want to give up. Good luck.

#3

I don’t see any ARM binaries in the download from Releases · jmantra/jdrummer · GitHub, only x86_64:

$ unzip -l jdrummer_Linux_VST3.zip
Archive:  jdrummer_Linux_VST3.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
        0  01-03-2026 22:16   jdrummer.vst3/
        0  01-03-2026 22:16   jdrummer.vst3/Contents/
        0  01-03-2026 22:16   jdrummer.vst3/Contents/x86_64-linux/
  5900208  12-30-2025 12:20   jdrummer.vst3/Contents/x86_64-linux/jdrummer.so
        0  01-03-2026 22:16   jdrummer.vst3/Contents/Resources/
#4

Well that would do it. Thanks.

#5

If it failed on step 3. Build the plugin in the Building on Linux subsection of the README.md you can try to run make -j4 instead of make -j$(nproc)