The normal Windows installer dialogs were shown and both a standalone and 64/32 bit VST plugins were installed.
#LMMS WINDOWS .EXE#
exe file and I ran that using a simple Wine command: wine dexed-0.9.4hf1-win.exe There is another LMMS wiki page listing Tested VSTs but I found that not all of the supposedly tested ones worked on my Wine installation. Note that the GUI that I saw was different from that on the wiki page ( left ) but it works fine. Again I had no problems and the Wine initialisation automatically download the Gecko libraries so as to display the VST and I soon had the synth up and running.
The wiki page very sensibly recommends that you start with a known working VST so I downloaded the recommended instrument and followed the instructions. Back to the VST … VST plugins on LMMS – part 2 To my slight surprise it worked absolutely perfectly with no problems and I soon had Wine installed. The one for Ubuntu looked straightforward enough with just a few commands to be run. However this was a few years ago and the Wine website now has a dedicated page for some distributions. In the past I’ve found that installing Wine was a bit hit or miss and, to be honest, I never got it to do anything useful other than run Notepad or Minesweeper.
#LMMS WINDOWS 64 BIT#
The other key bit of information is that you need 32 bit VSTs and not the 64 bit versions. Hmm, OK, I’ve not really played much with Wine and I’ve heard mixed reviews about it but I’m willing to give it a go. Linux LMMS installations require Wine installed before these plugins can be used.” The not so good news is that “ … Because most VSTs are written to be Windows compatible, VSTs tend to work better on Windows LMMS installations. The Dexed GitHub releases page has a number of pre-built plugins so I had a quick check in the LMMS manual as to what to do next … VST plugins on LMMS – part 1įortunately there’s a useful page on the LMMS wiki about plugins.
I wanted to use Dexed as part of my LMMS setup and the usual way of doing this is by using a VST plugin. One of my usual YouTube haunts – Woody’s Piano Shack – has a comparison of dexed against a real DX-7: There’s very little for the D-50 but the original ROMs for the DX7 are readily available online and the Dexed soft synth gets some good reviews. Neither of us had the budget, space and, more importantly in my case, the talent for one of these beasts so I started to have a look for some emulators. Recently I’ve had lengthy discussions with a friend about how good 80s era synths like the Roland D-50 and the Yamaha DX7 sounded.
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