I’ve recently started using Ardour on Ubuntu 24.10 for music production, and I’m thrilled with its performance and quality!
I was particularly excited to discover that I could use Wine with Yabridge to run Windows plugins, which opens up a whole new world of possibilities for me.
However, after everything was set up, I’ve encountered an issue: when Ardour scans the plugins, they show up during the scan, but it keeps searching indefinitely without finishing. I’ve checked all the folders and files, and everything seems to be in order. Yabridge sync works perfectly, but Ardour is unable to include the plugins, resulting in a never-ending scan.
I’ve searched extensively online for solutions but haven’t had any luck. I hope someone here can provide some insights!
It’s Wine. It’s almost always Wine. There’s no definitive answer to which version of Wine will work, and to complicate matters further, some plugins will work with one version of Wine and not with others.
If you compile Yabridge yourself it’s working fine. The binary release is “broken”.
If you can’t compile Yabridge and/or wait for the new binary release, I compiled it and published for download, but it is 64-bit Yabridge only (I got error compiling 32-bit library). So you can use 64-bit plugins only.
Download link is in the Yabridge issue above.
Cheers!
Skygge
Some time ago I used windows plugins via linvst. You can try linvst. It works perfectly with VST2 plugins and also partly with VST3 plugins. Often, as Paul said, it’s because of the wine version that it doesn’t work. I have Wine version 8.0.2 and everything worked and i think still works. Now i use Linux native plugins. They are damn good.
That was indeed the issue! Unfortunately, iZotope Ozone 8—one of my favorite plugins—didn’t work as hoped. It caused Ardour to crash and close suddenly, but at least the scan completed, and it was added to the track! This gives me hope to test other plugins and perhaps resolve the dependencies needed to get Ozone 8 running.
Melodyne also worked and opened perfectly! I haven’t done any audio tests with it yet, but I’m confident things will only improve from here.
Wow! You could install and authorize iZotope plugins on Linux? I’ve been trying for a very long time and have never been able to do it. Always get the error on the pic.
If you have some guidance I’m interested to learn.
I haven’t tried in a LONG time, but last time I tried I think you had to make sure Wine set a drive identifier as that was used as part of the authorization process for Izotope. But again it has been a LONG time.
I installed Ozone 8 with Wine, and everything worked seamlessly—no authorization or additional steps were needed! However, it only runs in Reaper; it doesn’t open in Ardour.
Please check the log window for messages about Ozone in Ardour (button in upper right corner). Also, what precisely doe “doesn’t open” mean? Just that you can’t see the GUI, or you can’t even add the plugin?
Only the GUI doesn’t work. If I deactivate it I can use it normally, but for me one of the most interesting things about Ozone is precisely the GUI that shows me the frequency graph in real time so I can carry out more assertive treatments!
