u-HE's ACE (and many more) plugins are not rendering text at all.

[parataxia]

I am running Arch Linux 64-bit, along with wine-staging-nine. I have installed all the u-HE related fonts to my wine prefix's C:\Windows\fonts\ and perhaps many other days of troubleshooting attempts. (i.e: winetricks corefonts .. and hacking the registry with anything related to fonts.) I even tried the wine patch created for those having issues with the VST not rendering at all. Unfortunately and obviously didn't work for me.

Here's a window image capture of the problem below given from the Preset view. Plus many other textual elements aren't rendering at all like the main preset header has no text, and random elements don't have the tiny text included.

(btw: unsure if this project is still maintained given the last commit on the Github page, and not many replies in a while for issues? )

Thanks.

[Brynildsen]

Same thing here, just tried.
There is a linux beta version here. I just tried it, it seems to work.
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=424953&sid=04ba17ad7c46b2bedcfbac35f2238fa5

[parataxia]

I tried that as well and those are the native u-HE instruments built for Linux rather than Windows VST DLLs which requires Airwave. I'd use those but I need this to work in Airwave + Bitwig because they have other plugins i need to use....

[Brynildsen]

I'm pretty sure airwave isn't the problem. Some plugin makers tend to "overdo" things in their GUI, like transparency, animated objects and openGL stuff, that wine can't handle.
What's your list of plugins you want to use? I'm not a maintainer but I can try them out if demo's are available and see if I get same results and errors. Or maybe I know of alternative either linux versions or other windows plugins that work better and does some of the same things.

I think we need to address some of these issues in wine forums. There must be a way to make them work, just look at how many windows games can perform in wine with the right wine prefixes, and they make use of a lot more advanced graphics..

[Brynildsen]

I have a windows version of Reaper installed for testing purposes. There I can load up the native windows dll's without a wrapper.. This means that airwave has been taken out of the equation.. I just tried running the plugin there, and exactly the same font/text problem occur. This IS a wine issue.

[parataxia]

Here's my winecfg override settings below, I am playing another game, oddly enough for a music game which works perfectly. I also just tried making sure my d1d2.dllbuild exists as shown and verified below:

version: 6.1.7601.17514
size: 827904 bytes
md5 hash: 3e0a1bf9e17349a8392455845721f92f

Last thing: I've tried to make a new WINEPREFIX directory and with bare to no overrides and I still have the same problem, so you are right I believe. Only thing I can try now is resort to an earlier non-testing build perhaps, although that would break compatibility with my music game in wine unless I can have multiple wine installs in one active linux environment?

[drewver]

i think you're going to have to copy windows truetype (*.ttf) fonts from a windows drive into wine's drive ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts

[ghost]

Hi there. As other folks here I had the same issue with invisible fonts in VST plugins bridged over airwave. I use i3wm all the time, but at some point I decided to check if the problem persists in Gnome. And to my surprise fonts worked fine there! Moreover, they started to work fine under i3wm, and the effect persisted after a reboot!

I don’t know exactly what happened though, any ideas?

And one more thing. I installed fonts through winetricks (winetricks corefonts) and followed some of the recommendations given here: https://github.com/osxmidi/LinVst

[Brynildsen]

https://www.u-he.com/downloads/linux/

I notice a big difference from the native Linux beta and the windows versions running in wine. Generally I can go lower on latency and load up more plugins with the linux versions. Since I'm a keyboard play I need it as low as possible.
I'd recommend loading up a Linux version on one track and a windows on another and monitor how the windows plugins makes weird spikes on bitwigs dsp meter. Same goes for xruns. My experience is that the Linux betas actually works better.

[Brynildsen]

https://www.u-he.com/downloads/linux/

I notice a big difference from the native Linux beta and the windows versions running in wine. Generally I can go lower on latency and load up more plugins with the linux versions. Since I'm a keyboard player I need it as low as possible.
I'd recommend loading up a Linux version on one track and a windows version of the exact same plugin on another and monitor how the windows plugins makes weird spikes on bitwigs dsp meter. Same goes for xruns. My experience is that the Linux betas actually works better.