airwave
Airwave is a WINE-based VST bridge, that allows for the use of Windows 32- and 64-bit VST 2.4 audio plugins with Linux VST hosts (by psycha0s)
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A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux (by robbert-vdh)

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airwave | yabridge | |
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7 | 135 | |
578 | 2,687 | |
0.5% | 4.4% | |
0.0 | 6.7 | |
over 4 years ago | 3 months ago | |
C++ | C++ | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
airwave
Posts with mentions or reviews of airwave.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-12.
- Hey has anyone managed to use Addictive drums under Linux? Loading into reaper just hangs and then crashes
- What external vst's do you use?
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Migrating from Ableton Live to Bitwig Studio? Worth it?
VST-wise the situation is decent on Linux. WINE supports a good amount and works pretty well now. I've seen some comments here saying Bitwig supports 32-bit plugins natively and I don't know about that since I switched back to Windows a year ago, but when I was using it, I had to use a bridge, and I used one called Airwave, which worked great. You set each plugins up once and then if it works, it works without issues after that!
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Two Notes wall of sound plugin?
I have never tried using that plugin on linux, but you could try using the windows version with Airwave, a windows VST to linux VST bridge. Can't guarantee that it will work perfectly, though.
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Can a Linux Desktop Audio Workstation use virtual instruments [VST] that are not native to Linux?
There is a program called Airwave that you can use, which allows you to convert windows vsts into linux vsts. It requires wine, and the windows vsts need to be located somewhere on the virtual C:\ drive. Airwave can be found here: https://github.com/psycha0s/airwave/releases/download/1.3.3/airwave_1.3.3-1_amd64.deb
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Does anyone have advice for running VSTs in FL Studio through Lutris?
I have heard good things about Airwave: https://github.com/psycha0s/airwave
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SWITCHING to Linux Mint 20 Xfce from Windows 10, but I'm afraid because of music production.
airwave works similar to LinVst (also based on Wine)
yabridge
Posts with mentions or reviews of yabridge.
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- Yabridge: Transparently Use Windows VST2, VST3 and Clap Plugins on Linux
- Yabridge
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Show HN: LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux
> To my knowledge all VST plugins can be used on Linux (via Wine). Is that not the case?
Yes, although I would recommend Yabridge rather than linvst.
https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
It should be already packaged in some Linux distros, but building and installation are straightforward. Basically it installs some libraries and an executable which once called will convert a Windows plugin in .dll form in a Linux+WINE loadable .so library.
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What Is the Future of the DAW?
If you use the Linux port, you may want to use Yabridge to load Windows VSTs in a transparent way.
http://reaper.fm/
https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
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Can't switch to linux even if i want to
Look into yabridge. You can test it with your plugins to confirm it'll work. Won't cost you anything.
- New to Linux, need help for guitar amp sims, MIDI, DAWs (A full setup guide).
- qtractor becomes unresponsible after adding vst plugin to midi track
- [ANN] yabridge 5.0.5, with more incremental fixes and improvements
- Best model for FL studio running on linux mint around the 100-140$ range on ebay?
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Using on Linux
But yeah Yabridge for me worked the best way. https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
What are some alternatives?
When comparing airwave and yabridge you can also consider the following projects:
LinVst - Linux Windows vst wrapper/bridge

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