trying to figure out carla-vst-wine on #NixOS: the thread

i will reply to this post with my findings

#linux #linuxaudio #musicproduction #kxaudio
ok so it occured to me that NixOS installs VSTs differently from Debian/Ubuntu, so no wonder the "CarlaVstShellBridged" and "CarlaVstFxShellBridged" plugins can't open Carla, i took them directly from the .deb i shared on the quoted post, so they expect the actual Carla plugin/binary/whatever to be somewhere completely different

i'm thinking the way to do it is to take the .deb or somehow get the
carla-vst-wine source code myself and make a Nix derivation for carla-vst-wine. hey who knows maybe i'll try to add it to nixpkgs

so i'll start by searching for the source code and seeing if i can make a Nix derivation

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Jux [GD] 🏳️‍⚧️ Cataclysm 81% (@JuxGD)

does anyone know how to use `carla-vst-wine`? i'm trying to use it with #FLStudio but i can't get it to work. i'm on #NixOS, musnix is installed as a flake (i think, i have `musnix.enable = true` in my config and it didn't error out), and i have the `carla` package installed i've tried putting the files from `/usr/lib/winvst/` from [this .deb (direct download)](https://launchpadlibrarian.net/750711107/carla-vst-wine_2.6.0~git20240921-1kxstudio1_amd64.deb) into `~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/VST2/`, `~/.vst/`, and even a folder i created myself, `/usr/lib/winvst/`. i also tried all of them at once, idk what to do #linux #linuxaudio #kxstudio #musicproduction #wine *also dw i'll remove the `/usr/lib` directory i know it's not supposed to be there* (edit: the .deb link comes from https://kxstudio/Repositories:Applications)

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5 days later i've found nothing very useful and i just opened an issue at the repo for the Carla project

in any case this will absolutely help, hopefully i can make like a derivation or something from the info i get (if any... please falktx anyone i'm praying
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i think i got it (see quoted)

i have NOT tried if this works yet, but this IS required so it's still good that i found it

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Jux [GD] 🏳️‍⚧️ Cataclysm 81% (@JuxGD)

i'm actually an idiot no way i think i got it remember when i was talking about `carla-vst-wine` and how to install it on #NixOS? yeah well i saw some talk about having to enable some of Carla's experimental features to be able to use it, but i never saw the experimental tab in the config... until i looked a little closer #linuxaudio #musicproduction 📎

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nope that didn't fix it, but i'm sure it helped