For Windows VST I use Yabridge, which is amazing with Wine. This week I have setup Native Instruments Komplete 14 (Kontakt and Komplete) working with Ardour connecting my Roland A-88 Mk2. Maybe i should do some videos to explain.
On another note, I found out that my focusrite was held back by factory defaults (3rd gen) and needed to follow a procedure to unlock higher samplerate. Now I am using 1024/192000 Hz and I reach 5.3ms latency without XRuns. (although when the pro audio profile isn't set Ardour would still say that the latency is 5.3 however you can clearly hear its not the case).
Then, when you download any library which contains ISO files, it will fails but no worries, the ISO is downloaded in you `~/Downloads` folder! The issue is related to Wine that can't show hidden files or something like this when mounting disks. So the solution, now that you reconfigured your default mounting options (I need this under Archlinux because udisks2 auto mount after creating a loop, if you dont have this issue you could just ignore the previous steps and manually mount the loop with the `unhide` parameter). So, you go find you ISO in your `~/Downloads`, then you open a terminal and you do: - `udisksctl loop-setup -f ~/Downloads/LIBRARY.iso` - Now you will have a newly mounted (if there is auto-mount) disk in your `/run/media/$USER` directory. - You go there, you will see inside there is an `LIBRARY_NAME.exe` - You do `wine LIBRARY_NAME.exe`. It will prompt some windows UI, you do next, install, etc.. - After if finished, you go in your Native Access and you click the refresh button and TADA its installed!
tips: unmount the disk afterwards. also you can restart native access between installs if you install a lot of them. I dont know why but sometimes it told me that I had not enough disk space for install but after restarting it it didnt complain anymore.
So I manually remounted the loop device using mount -o remount,unhide /mountpoint and now I'm seeing the hidden files.
Again, thank you very much for your guide! :)