Carla will not see Windows vst plugins

Question

I am running Ubuntu Studio 20.10. I would like to use some Windows vst plugins in my Ardour sessions. Carla is installed. I installed carla-bridge-win32 and carla-bridge-win64. I also installed Q4Wine. When I open Carla and look at the acceptable architecture, only "Native" is visible. There are no indications that Carla will accept Windows 32 or 64 architectures. Is there something else I should be doing so that Carla will accept the Windows plugins? (In the settings for Carla, it appears that Carla is looking at the directories which contain the plugins.)

Answer 1

Try to enable experimental features under Settings->Main and then enable plugin bridges and Wine bridges under Settings->Experimental, then refresh the plugins. Under Architecture you should now see Bridged (Wine).

Also dragging the vst file in the Rack window worked for me.