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Last active March 5, 2024 04:58
Notes on using yabridge to run Windows VST plugins in Linux
This is basically a list of things I wish had been clearer to me when I first sat down to try to figure out how to use
yabridge. Some of these may not have been clear because I did a bad job of skimming the documentation. Others may be
because the documentation is actually lacking.
(1) yabridge expects the wine binary to be at /usr/bin/wine. If your wine is installed somewhere else you should symlink it to /usr/bin/wine. Here are some other places where your Wine might be installed -
- WineHQ's PPA installs wine-staging at /opt/wine-staging/bin/wine
- Lutris installs wine under ~/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine
- Heroic Launcher installs wine under ~/.config/heroic/tools/wine
(2) yabridge does not have any GUI elements. It is a command line utility that looks for Windows VST plugins that have