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hi,

Wholly thanks for passing by. You're of course welcome to the party :)

However, the kind of VST plugins that Qtractor supports are the so called Linux native VST (aka. LXVST) ie. plugins that are compiled and built as binary Linux shared objects (.so; the Linux equivalent to Windows .dll). Also, please look into the README.VST file in the source distribution.

As to have Windows VSTs (.dll) running in a Linux host eg. Qtractor you need a so called bridge to let them run and work through WINE. Historically this bridge was provided by DSSI-VST which scans for Windows VSTi's provided you tell the right search paths (via VST_PATH env.variable) and the plugins will show up in Qtractor as DSSI plugins (not VST!).

There are other tools that provide, more or less the same effect, usually mapping Windows VSTs (.dll) into Linux VSTs (.so) so they will appear as with the "VST" tag type. eg. Airwave, LinVst to name a few. However I don't really know whether they may or not work for you or anybody else for that matter. As always, you're on your own: YMMV ;)

hth.
Cheers

ps. of course, Carla also provides a bridge mechanism but one of its own.