at the moment I’m struggling with some VST Instruments (Windows) where the sound works but at the GUI I can’t click or change something with the mouse, I don’t know if it is related to Ardour for me it seams it also could be an wine issue.
If somebody have an idea what I could try to get it done will be great
Here my system information’s
Linux Manjaro 24.2
Ardour 8.10.2 64 bit (Official Repositorie)
Wine stagging 9.22-1
Yabridge and Yabridgectl 5.1.1-1
Your problem is Wine-Staging 9.22, it breaks yabridge"s functionality. Downgrading to 9.21 should fix the problem. Never blindly update Wine if it is working pin or hold it at a working version.
I don’t use or know anything about Manjaro so consult their forum or the yabridge project website for info on how to downgrade Wine-Staging.
Also worth noting that a number of newer plugins are using JUCE and in particular a layer in JUCE that uses part of the win32 API that isn’t typically available on quite a few Linux machines (it requires specific new versions of the video hardware drivers).
That’s not necessarily the problem, but worth being aware of. The symptoms are precisely as you describe: plugin works, GUI comes up, but cannot be modified in any way.
Start winecfg and set wine to have a virtual desktop and set it to your actual screen resolution. If you start a project with a yabridge plugin you will see a blue backdrop, but don’t worry, just press ALT+Tab and Ardour is here again. Not beautiful, but it works (at least here).
The problem seems to be that the buttons and knobs are seen by wine only on the top left corner of the sceen instad inside the window.
I downgraded to 9.20 what was the latest version before and it works but it seams there is still a setting needed with the screen resolution specially if the VST GUI is bigger.
The suggestion from Werner also works but not for all
The JUCE suggestion from Paul I will keep in mind for the future.
