Add more concrete examples

I had downloaded the valhalla plugin mentioned, but didn't realize that the `.exe` file wasn't the plugin, but rather an installer for the plugin which needed to executed in the Wine environment to be readable by yabridge.

Even the fact that Wine was a prerequisite for yabridge was not initially apparent to me (but would be obvious now).
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Eoghan Murray
2020-11-23 16:10:05 +00:00
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@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ highly compatible, while also staying easy to debug and maintain.
- [Tested with](#tested-with)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Preliminaries](#preliminaries)
- [Automatic setup (recommended)](#automatic-setup-recommended)
- [Manual setup](#manual-setup)
- [DAW setup](#daw-setup)
@@ -57,6 +58,28 @@ Manjaro ([yabridge](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yabridge/),
[yabridge-bin](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yabridge-bin/),
[yabridge-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yabridge-git/)).
### Preliminaries
YABridge builds upon VST2 plugins installed via Wine.
The recommended Wine version is the *staging* version installed directly from
WineHQ (your packaged version may be too old): https://wiki.winehq.org/Download
`sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging`
If you don't have any VST2 plugins installed, download an example one, e.g.
https://valhalladsp.com/shop/reverb/valhalla-supermassive/. Note: you will
need to execute the .exe installer in your Wine environment in order to produce
the VST2 .dll files.
Yabridge will use the dll file
(e.g. `~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/VST2/ValhallaSupermassive_x64.dll`)
to output a `ValhallaSupermassive_x64.so` file in the same folder, usable in linux.
After installation, you'll run
`yabridgectl add "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/VST2/"`
and then access this same folder in your DAW for import (e.g. for BitWig,
add the folder via `Settings > Locations > Plug-in Locations > + Add Location`) .
### Automatic setup (recommended)
The easiest way to get up and running is through