Anyone managed to load VST plugins in Linux Renoise 64-bit?

It’s Renoise 3.1 64bit for Linux. I’m using Kubuntu 16.04. Tried system variable VST_PATH which points to correct directory where VST plugins are stored. Tried putting it all in /home/username/.vst/. None of them work. Please help.

Yes, works fine here.

In your terminal put:

export VST_PATH="$VST_PATH:/usr/lib/vst:~/.vst" && renoise

Open the preferences and scan for plugins.

You could post your renoise log as well, might have something useful inside it.

/home/username/.renoise/V3.1.0/Log.txt

Linux native 64bit VSTs working here on ubutntu 16.04 like charms.

Just one note on the very basic side…you know you cannot use windows .dll files, but have to either find native linux versions (.so), though these are rare, or you have to dabble in wine and a special loader with mixed results?

If you want to test: here are some demo VST and VSTi for Linux:

http://u-he.com/downloads/?p=penguin/release

Linux native 64bit VSTs working here on ubutntu 16.04 like charms.

Just one note on the very basic side…you know you cannot use windows .dll files, but have to either find native linux versions (.so), though these are rare, or you have to dabble in wine and a special loader with mixed results?

So there is where the problem lies… I doubt I can find that two VSTs I need right now natively compiled for Linux, and in that case I would go try to load them with Wine. Thanks for your help!

If you wish to try to run windows VSTs from Linux/Renoise you can try this https://github.com/phantom-code/airwave

There is a .deb in the “releases” tab that spares you from having to compile.

You then install the VSTs in a proper wine installation (or just copy them somewhere in there in drive_c if they come without installer and just .dll), setup airwave to find them, and scan them in renoise.

I’ve once tried it with mixed results. Performance was sometimes a lot weaker and gfx can glitch. Some plugins could crash wine even while just scanning. Some worked fine though. You might loose some hair because of trying it.