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Mention that symlinks only work for Bitwig
There might be other hsots that support this behavior, but it seems like there are more hosts out there that don't then there are that do.
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@@ -14,10 +14,9 @@ Yabridge has been verified to work correctly in the following VST hosts using
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Wine Staging 5.5 and 5.6:
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- Bitwig Studio 3.1 and the beta releases of 3.2
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- Carla 2.1 (does not support opening multiple symlinked plugins in the same
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session)
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- Carla 2.1
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- Ardour 5.12
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- REAPER 6.09 (does not support symlinks)
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- REAPER 6.09
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At the moment there is a regression in **Wine 5.7** that breaks application
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startup behavior, so you'll have to temporarily downgrade to an earlier version
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@@ -31,11 +30,12 @@ You can either download a prebuilt version of yabridge through the GitHub
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compile it from source using the instructions in the [build](#Building) section
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below.
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There are two ways to use yabridge. The recommended way is to use symbolic
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links. The main advantage here is that you will be able to update yabridge for
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all of your plugins in one go, and it avoids having to install anything outside
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of your home directory. Sadly, not all hosts support this behavior. See the list
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above for hosts that don't.
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There are two ways to use yabridge. If you're using Bitwig Studio, then the
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recommended installation method is to use symbolic links. The main advantage
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here is that you will be able to update yabridge for all of your plugins in one
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go, and it avoids having to install anything outside of your home directory.
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Sadly, not all hosts support this behavior. The copy-based installation will
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work for all hosts.
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If you have downloaded the prebuilt version of yabridge or if have followed the
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instructions from the [bitbridge](#32-bit-bitbridge) section below, then
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@@ -49,16 +49,15 @@ automatically detect and use the Wine prefix the plugin's `.dll` file is located
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in. Alternatively you could set the `WINEPREFIX` environment variable to
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override the Wine prefix for all instances of yabridge.
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### Symlinking (recommended)
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### Symlinking (recommended with Bitwig Studio)
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This is the recommended way to use yabridge if you're using Bitwig Studio or
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Ardour. You can either use the prebuilt binaries from the GitHub releases
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section, or you could build yabridge directly from source. If you use the
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prebuilt binaries, then you can simply extract them to `~/.local/share/yabridge`
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or to anywhere else in your home directory. If you choose to build from source,
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then you can use the compiled binaries directly from the `build/` directory. For
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the section below I'm going to assume you've extracted the files to
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`~/.local/share/yabridge`.
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This is the recommended way to use yabridge if you're using Bitwig Studio You
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can either use the prebuilt binaries from the GitHub releases section, or you
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can build yabridge directly from source. If you use the prebuilt binaries, then
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you can simply extract them to `~/.local/share/yabridge` or to anywhere else in
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your home directory. If you choose to build from source, then you can use the
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compiled binaries directly from the `build/` directory. For the section below
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I'm going to assume you've extracted the files to `~/.local/share/yabridge`.
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To set up yabridge for a VST plugin called
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`~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins/plugin.dll`,
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@@ -107,8 +106,7 @@ for a VST plugin called `~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins/plug
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cp ~/.local/share/yabridge/libyabridge.so "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins/plugin.so"
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```
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You could also use a modified version of the installation script from the
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previous section to install yabridge for all of you VST plugins at once:
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To install yabridge for all VST2 plugins under `~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins` you could use the following script:
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```shell
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yabridge_home=$HOME/.local/share/yabridge
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