Cannot Load VST plugin on Mac -Want it on linux also but HOW?

[Turon]

Hi all

How exactly do you load a VST plugin? I downloaded this plugin called Chip32 and I downloaded the mac version, I found I couldn't change the VST directory from the default cause it said that my change would only be applied after reopening the program though when I did so I found not of my changes had been applied.

So then I simply moved the VST into the default directory, but what should I do from there? I hear a lot of talk about needing to use wine with the VST
to get it to work, in that case should I have downloaded the windows version of the plugin or lmms? I'm really confused...

[musikbear]

Im sorry, but afaik vst is not supported on mac yet.
I have heard of a way, where lmms it self was run inside wine, and symlinks was used to establish the paths, but that was pretty cumbersome

[Turon]

Well that sucks... How easy is it to get VSTs on Linux? I've tried that as well.

[musikbear]

i actually meant to guide you to the wiki, but vst usage in linux, is really not explained. All i can say is that you do it through WINE, if you know WINE that is propl. enough. If not, someone with linux knowledge need to chime in

[Gps]

I am attempting to write that Linux wiki part.

http://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3663

Feel free to tell me if its not clear or if something is missing.

Short answer you need to install wine. ( I know little to nothing about mac, but you will need wine there too)
But as far as I know musicbear is right, although there are rumours of people who got it working on a mac.
I found this with google:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/inde ... 936AAoYGfR
and this:
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/

[musikbear]

I have added GPSs linux & wine recommendations to the wiki
https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Wo ... _.26_Linux

Thanks GPS!