How to use Windows VST Plugins on Linux | Tutorials

In this Tutorial I want to show you how to run Windows VST Plugins on Linux. Hope you like it!

Greetings Jochen

[ayubaswad]

What version of Carla you use. I can't see win32 or win64 option on my installed carla?

[krygyz]

Subbed for Music production was the only thing holding me back from fully switching, this is great

[haraldkal]

Wow Thanks! I just made this work using Ubuntu 17.10 and Bitwig! :)
Loaded the carla.vst as CarlaRack and now I'm using my plugins. No noticable latency or anything.
Dude, I owe you bigtime! :)

[gustavosalmeron]

Your sweet relaxing voice makes me moist. Thanks doc

[pepitoPerez]

Great tutorial!!! I followed these steps to install Guitar Rig 5, worked like charm :)

[ragul]

Hey what if I have plugins in DLL and other files which are exe and I have to manually import, what do I do?

[RaulGomes]

Nice tutorial. Would you say it's safe to use Linux and Carla for live performances as a keyboard player? (I know the basics: that I must use a computer just for this, with a clean system etc...) . Have you ever had any problems with latency using midi controllers?

[Skmecs]

Hi. Thank you for the video.
Carla won't show me the plugin's name although VST2 number increases alter I follow your steps. Any ideas on this?

[Leatherneckforlife]

Great tutorial! Very thorough...definitely among my favorites...job well done!

[Gammacidio]

Great video! But I have this problem:
I am trying to add the MT Power Drumkit 2 plugin to Carla. Everything you have explained in the video worked but at the end Carla does not find the plugin file (.dll) that I have copied in the .vst directory. Could you help me out?

[kurt]

Thank you so much! This answered all my questions

[privategb]

Thanks, I followed the steps but after hitting "close" the new filters don't appear to be in the list.

[NiVofHiR]

AWESOME TUTORIAL!~ Thanks helped me alot!

[ETmusic-ymxc]

i can't find carla in the cache.. what do you suggest?

[diek_yt]

Hey man, after a while I finally made this work for me (w/ Reaper and Antergos Linux). However, I'm not using a filter effect like you are so I have an issue...

I'm trying to use the magical8bit plugin (which I can load in Carla) as a virtual instrument in Reaper i.e. I want to play MIDI files on a Reaper track and have them sound 8bit. The only way I've been able to obtain that 8bit sound from Reaper is by opening a new track with a synth FX (ReaSynth) and connecting the Carla Patchbay the same way you did (except for the Jack INPUT Client and the EQ4Q Mono). Now, here's the fun thing:

When I connect AND capture->Reaper->Playback, and play a MIDI file on the Reaper track, I can hear a combination of both the ReaSynth and the magical8bit plugin.

If I only connect capture->Reaper-Playback, I can too only hear the ReaSynth, which is to be expected.

However, if I only connect capture->Reaper->Carla->Playback, I can only hear the ReaSynth as well, which strikes me as very odd. I cannot find a way to exclusively get the magical8bit sound without the ReaSynth (I've tried replacing that with other FX with no luck thus far). Do you have any idea what might be causing this issue?

Cheers and thanks for you videos!

[AjejeBrazo]

why i don't have the windows discovery option, but only native and python?

[suhailkhan-cfzf]

Can we install cubase and pro tools on LINUX operating system

[Person]

Thank you very much for this! I will be trying this in the near future :D

[Baradone_]

Dude, i have a question, look i'm using carla on arch linux, but It's the same steps, but i have an error, when I put the plugins carla show me "failed to load file", i used carla on ubuntu 20.10, but now i have that problem. Ideas?

[CJ_Walks]

Ok, but what if I have the plugins fully installed on windows, but I just want to pull from those locations. Do you need to reinstall all of them?