Carla can't load as an effect

[CorruptVoidSoul]

System Information

Ubuntu 24 I think, on a phone on top of Termux

LMMS Version(s)

Latest, I build from source

Most Recent Working Version

No response

Bug Summary

As the title says, Carla can't load as an effect
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/250805775646064641/1331606100490846312/Screenshot_20250122-134617.png?ex=67938bd2&is=67923a52&hm=c47667140543ab8be0551b38c245e3a789c2ef93fd8ba4e0058308a760642407&

Expected Behaviour

well, load, duh.

Steps To Reproduce

Open LMMS, add an instrument, go in Effects and try to add Carla, either Patchbay or Rack, and you'll be greeted with a wide grey rectangle instead of the plugin UI

Logs

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Screenshots / Minimum Reproducible Project

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• I have searched all existing issues and confirmed that this is not a duplicate.

[CorruptVoidSoul]

I've been told the screenshot doesn't show up

[tresf]

Quoting Golden Plunger on Discord:

ln -s /usr/lib/vst/carla.vst/CarlaPatchbayFX.so ~/Documents/lmms/plugins/vst/CarlaPatchbayFX.so

... if your LMMS build has native (e.g. Linux) VST support, you can load the VST effect by pointing the software to the location of the plugin. Ideally, LMMS would find these automatically. If there's a PR that offers this, please link.

Chances are you tried to load the LV2 version, which is still being worked on in #7201.

[tresf]

@CorruptVoidSoul I think this should be closed and marked as a duplicate of #7201. Please let me know if you agree.

[CorruptVoidSoul]

Maybe not a "duplicate" per se, but it's definitely related. I don't know if this should be closed right now, but isn't there some button that makes is so that when LV2 UI gets merged, this is closed automatically ?

[tresf]

Maybe not a "duplicate" per se, but it's definitely related. I don't know if this should be closed right now, but isn't there some button that makes is so that when LV2 UI gets merged, this is closed automatically ?

I think we can mark it as a child issue of that bug report. I'll see if I can do that.