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A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux

13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 2 stories, 11 comments · first 2022-02-19 · latest 2026-01-11

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  1. …going back at the moment. https://forum.juce.com/t/juce8-direct2d-wine-yabridge/64298/... https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/issues/386 There are patches based on binary diffs to JUCE7, but it is just so much pain to simply run the…
  2. …running, you then have to install the Jack bridge to get audio working, after that you can install https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge to try and get some of your plugins working.
    comment by analogpixel · 2025-12-29 · in Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
  3. …you were fucked), VSTs have multiple options for running on Linux: https://airwave.fxarena.net/ https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
    comment by bigyabai · 2025-07-23 · in Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
  4. …(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.…
    comment by squarefoot · 2023-12-30 · in LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux
  5. …> Also on Linux it supports only rarely used plugin formats (LV2, Linux VST) https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
    comment by 6581 · 2023-10-09 · in Ardour 8.0
  6. If it supports VST, I imagine yabridge would work fine to allow you to use Windows VST. https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
    comment by weavie · 2023-10-09 · in Ardour 8.0
  7. …port, you may want to use Yabridge to load Windows VSTs in a transparent way. http://reaper.fm/ https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
    comment by squarefoot · 2023-09-30 · in What Is the Future of the DAW?
  8. …to mind) But you could also use something like yabridge [0] in order to run Windows-only VSTs. 0: https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
  9. …is a lot more polished, doesn't crap out at every WINE update and also is much quicker to operate. https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
    comment by squarefoot · 2022-10-15 · in Ardour 7.0
  10. Yabridge [1] uses wine to seamlessly load VST plugins into a host. It pretty much just works. [1] https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
    comment by inktype · 2022-10-11 · in How Wine works 101
  11. You can always try something like this: https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge It may not work for VST plugins with certain DRMs though. Update: I see that bepzi was 1 hour ahead of me. I did not see it when I refreshed the page, only…