[HN Gopher] Native Linux VST plugin directory
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       Native Linux VST plugin directory
        
       Author : Aldipower
       Score  : 62 points
       Date   : 2026-01-28 19:59 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Rooster61 wrote:
       | Oh nice. I'd have loved to have had this a few months ago. It's
       | not overly easy to find VST plugins for Linux, and I've missed
       | that since moving from Windows last year.
        
         | donbrae wrote:
         | I hope the CLAP plugin open standard[0] will lead to more VSTs
         | being made available for Linux. My favourite synth, Diva[1],
         | has already been ported over (its maker, u-he, co-developed
         | CLAP.)
         | 
         | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLever_Audio_Plug-in [1]
         | https://u-he.com/products/diva/
        
           | sramsay wrote:
           | And honestly, if I was on a desert island with just u-he
           | plugins . . .
        
         | ThatMedicIsASpy wrote:
         | https://lsp-plug.in/ https://linuxdaw.org/
        
       | jsheard wrote:
       | Is it possible to wedge WINE between a Windows VST and a native
       | Linux DAW?
        
         | ta988 wrote:
         | Yes with yabridge but it is really brittle.
        
           | embedding-shape wrote:
           | Brittle in terms of crashes sometimes, or brittle as in
           | "looses bit of connection always"?
        
             | Aldipower wrote:
             | Brittle in terms of GUI rendering, sometimes, never had
             | problems with the audio though.
        
         | bandrami wrote:
         | It used to be the only way to do it (LMMS is still kind of
         | stuck in that time period). Fortunately there are a lot more
         | native plugins now.
        
         | Aldipower wrote:
         | Yes, with yabridge, it works very well for example with all the
         | Valhalla Reverb plugins. But then there are others like
         | FabFilter, they do not work so well. But luckily there are now
         | native Linux FabFilter alternatives, like ToneBoosters EQ Pro,
         | Tal EQ, ZL EQ, ...
        
           | embedding-shape wrote:
           | As a FabFilter user, how do those alternatives compare? I
           | mostly use Pro-C and Pro-Q
        
             | Aldipower wrote:
             | They _all_ offer Dynamic EQ, all the phase modes (linear,
             | minimal and derivatives), freq matching, collision
             | detection, side chaining, etc... Absolutely comparable
             | imho. And cheaper. ZL Equalizer even is open source!
             | 
             | https://www.toneboosters.com/tb_equalizer_pro.html
             | https://tal-software.com/products/tal-eq https://zl-
             | audio.github.io/plugins/zlequalizer2/manual/
        
             | sramsay wrote:
             | I'll put TB Barricade against Pro-L 2 and TB Reverb against
             | Pro-R for sure. I mostly use other stuff for EQ and
             | compression, but those two are _really_ very similar to the
             | FB offerings.
        
           | ErroneousBosh wrote:
           | I think you can do it with Carla if you build it with Wine
           | libs linked.
        
         | camtarn wrote:
         | Yabridge works, and it's frankly incredible that it works at
         | all, but it has some trouble figuring out where I'm clicking on
         | EZDrummer. It's gotten better in the latest version of Linux
         | Mint but it's still a bit off.
        
       | sirwitti wrote:
       | I absolutely love the progress that was made in the several last
       | years! The number of VST/audio plugins available on linux has
       | grown from being quite a problem to having an actual ecosystem!
        
       | locusofself wrote:
       | I've always wanted to do music recording on Linux (literally
       | since the 90s). The fact that my preferred DAW (Reaper) has long
       | been native to Linux has tempted me. But I have Universal Audio
       | "Apollo" interface and have bought into their whole ecosystem
       | which is very good and runs really great on my mac.
       | 
       | If I made the plunge I would get an RME USB audio interface and
       | use Reaper, maybe play around with Bitwig which is also native on
       | Linux. I don't think I would mess with WINE, regardless of
       | other's success stories with it.
       | 
       | I'm glad to see where things have gone in recent years though
        
         | Aldipower wrote:
         | I have a RME _PCIe_ Raydat card that is supported by Linux. It
         | has 4+4 ADAT ports, meaning 32in+32out channels. You can
         | connect basically every interface that has ADAT to it. I've
         | connected two Ferrofish Pulse8 AE, a Focusrite Scarlett and a
         | Motu Traveler. :-) If your UA Apollo has ADAT, you still can
         | use it this way! Of course it hasn't to be a RME Raydat, any
         | other Linux supported interface with ADAT does it too, f.ex. a
         | Scarlett. You could get a cheap Scarlett and connect your
         | Apollo to it. Hahaha. Seriously, this would work.
        
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