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A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux
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> I have added a MIDI track and it is unclear how to add notes to it. Right clicking on a track doesn't give an option to do that.
https://manual.ardour.org/working-with-midi/create-midi-regi...
https://manual.ardour.org/working-with-midi/add-new-notes/
> Also on Linux it supports only rarely used plugin formats (LV2, Linux VST)
If it supports VST, I imagine yabridge would work fine to allow you to use Windows VST.
Take a look at Reaper. It's a professional quality tool, but easy enough to get started with for kids too, its license is very friendly and the trial version isn't limited in any way. The Windows version always worked for me under Linux using WINE with very low latency, but they made a Linux port which is great.
If you use the Linux port, you may want to use Yabridge to load Windows VSTs in a transparent way.
Next to some awesome open source VSTs (SurgeXT, Helm, Vital etc.) there's plenty of closed source VSTs that run native on Linux (u-he plugins come to mind)
But you could also use something like yabridge [0] in order to run Windows-only VSTs.
I've used LinVST in the past to run Windows VSTs on Linux with mixed success, but it was more of a hit and miss; today I'm extremely happy with Yabridge which is a lot more polished, doesn't crap out at every WINE update and also is much quicker to operate.
Yabridge [1] uses wine to seamlessly load VST plugins into a host. It pretty much just works.
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 after I replied.