Helm VST not found (Linux)

[lilith]

Hi,

I’m having a bit a problem with getting Helm to work.

On my system (Ubuntustudio) Helm is located in /usr/lib/lxvst. I added the path variables in .bashrc with

export VST_PATH=/home/marco/.vst:/home/marco/.vst3:/usr/lib/lxvst:/usr/lib/vst:/usr/lib/vst3

and echo path gives me

echo $VST_PATH
/home/marco/.vst:/home/marco/.vst3:/usr/lib/lxvst:/usr/lib/vst:/usr/lib/vst3

Still Renoise does not find Helm. It was working in the past on Debian… Am I missing something?

edit: in Reaper Helm is found with the same path entry.

[martblek]

this path will be work only if you start renoise from commandline.
make it global put paths in to “.profile” file in /home/marco
Manjaro here. but i think it is work same on ubuntu.

[lilith]

Thanks, great! You are right! I have a .profile so I guess that’s the solution.
Maybe @taktik can mention this in the manual.

[martblek]

You can also copy/move plugin.so into .vst or make in .vst directory symlink to installed plugin like U-He does.
But this is easiest way i think.