Re: Overloud TH-U

I tested Overloud TH-U in Linux (Linux Mint, DAW: Reaper), and quite impressed by the sonic possibilities of this amp simulator!
Just wanted to share with you how to install it, perhaps someone is helped with the info

I found some videos from a guy who got it to work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EhfN_dgRH4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTo65a2kfDA

I based my instructions on the way he made it work:

Instructions:
Via Software Manager, you need to install:

• Bottles (flatpak version) - part (A)

• Flatseal (flatpak) - part (B)

• Wine (just the standard compatibility layer offered in the software manager, not all the command steps via your terminal)

It now works as standalone version. If you want it to work as plugin in your DAW, you need Yabridge.
Yabridge, can be installed via a GitHub download - see part (C)


-A- Bottles part…
Go to your File Explorer and make a folder where you want to store your VST's in Bottles.
I made one here:
/home/USERNAME/Bottles

Open the Bottles application, open the Preferences in the menu and change the folder to:
/home/USERNAME/Bottles
Save and restart Bottles

Open Preferences again and go to Runner tab.
Click "Caffe" and install the latest version, I installed 'caffe-9.7'.
Back to main screen, click "Create New Bottle"
"Application" (make sure Runner caffe is selected > you can do so by choosing custom first and then applications)
I named my bottle "VST" and clicked 'create'. It takes some time to create the environment.
Open your VST bottle
Click "Run Executable"
Click Settings (make sure runner Caffe is still selected)
Go back to your VST bottle main screen and click "Run Executable"
Choose your .exe file you want to install, in this case "Install TH-U 1.4.29 Win (64 bit).exe".
The program gets installed and added to the list in the bottles.
You now find TH-U-64 as only program there, with an arrow and vertical ... menu.
Click the vertical ... to change launch options.
Make sure 'DXVK' and 'VKD3D' are enabled and save. (perhaps LatencyFlex aswel)
Then click the arrow to launch it. It should work.

-B- Flatseal
Flatseal is needed to manage permissions. If you want to run your VST from outside Bottles, a shortcut, or for example as a plugin from within your DAW, you will have to do jus this:
Open Flatseal and go to the Bottles tab in the applications list
Go to Filesystem part and enable ‘All system files”.

-C- Set up Yabridge
Download & Install Yabridge:
https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/releases
Extract the archive in the following folder:
/home/YourName/.local/share
Go to the yabridge installation directory
.local/share/yabridge
Now Add the folders to Yabridge in order to sync them afterwards.
yabridgectl add "/home/USERNAME/Bottles/VST/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/VST3"
Now sync the plugin
yabridgectl sync
The plugin will show up after rescanning installed plugins in your DAW, if the folder /home/USERNAME/.vst3 is added there.


Possible problem and solution
In my situation it happened that TH-U loaded and showed an error about presets not loading.
I noticed that when I first installed it, I didn’t select a folder in part (A), and TH-U was installed on a totally different path by default:
/home/USERNAME/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles
That time, TH-U worked perfectly without the error.
So I did part (A) again and selected that folder in the preferences.
I created a new test-bottle and installed TH-U there.
I then saw the presets were installed here (in a steamuser folder):
/home/USERNAME/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/test-bottle/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/Overloud/TH-U/
I copied all what’s in there and pasted this in here:
/home/USERNAME/Bottles/VST/drive_c/users/USERNAME/AppData/Roaming/Overloud/TH-U/

Now it loaded as it should.
I can play multiple tracks in Reaper with TH-U loading different presets.
The System Monitor is showing the CPU and RAM are stable and very ok.

Statistics: Posted by bulevardi — Tue Oct 15, 2024 8:03 am

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