Increasing problems with JUCE Audio plugins

[mabian]

Hello,

My journey to adopt Linux for Audio production is being affected by an incompatibility with Juce 8, a framework many companies use to develop plugins that can run more easily on Windows and Mac.

It seems that Juce 8 introduced support for d2d 1.3, while as far as I can understand Wine (using 9.21 tkg staging on Debian 12) goes up to 1.2.

Please take a look here:
https://forum.juce.com/t/juce8-direct2d ... idge/64298

Some plugins being updated and optimized for Juce 8 are no longer running (Wine/yabridge hangs with high CPU usage).

Examples: Toneboosters and Aberrant DSP latest updates.

Unless some specific winecfg/winetricks settings can help in this regard this is a showstopper for me.
I would truly love to move to Linux but the number of plugins that are becoming incompatible is growing and I'm afraid it's only getting worse.

Thanks,
Mario

[mabian]

Please move the above post to "Linux" subforum. Thanks.

[andiejs]

Hi, I'd like to bump this; Since JUCE is the most widely used framework for audio application and plug-in development, it's a major component that should be runnable on WINE. This is a problem that will affect anyone making music using vst plugins through wine. JUCE is the most widely used framework for audio application and plug-in development. JUCE is an open source C++ codebase.

This is a huge issue for me and is currently preventing me from working since plugin providers upgrading to JUCE 8 are making their expensive and essential plugins inaccessible to wine users. Some of my things are no longer loading ~at all~ due to this.

Is anyone working on making WINE compatible with the latest (JUCE ? What would it take to get this happening? Please let me know if there's any way I can help.

the forum post linked by the OP is informative.
https://forum.juce.com/t/juce8-direct2d ... idge/64298