Cannot find bundled config and VST files for Linux

Elk Audio OS Sushi
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I’m attempting to install Sushi v1.1.0 on Arch Linux. I can’t find the MDA plugins suite or configuration files though when I download the AppImage. If I extract the contents of the AppImage using

./Sushi-x86_64.appimage --appimage-extract

it only has contents related to the binary executable.

I downloaded the mac zip and found the files there. However, when I attempt to run Sushi pointing to those files, I get the error:

[2023-07-05 23:40:13.095] [error] [vst3] Failed to load VST3 Module: /home/wcroughan/Downloads/sushi/mda-vst3.vst3 is not a module directory.

but I don’t get this error when I rewrite the config file to point to a different vst3 plugin I already had.

Does the vst in the mac zip file not work on linux? Is there somewhere else I’m supposed to find the vsts and config files for linux?

For more context, here’s the full command I’m running

./Sushi-x86_64.appimage -j --connect-ports --base-plugin-path=/home/wcroughan/Downloads/sushi/ -c /home/wcroughan/Downloads/sushi/config_files/play_vst3.json -l debug

and here’s the full output in /tmp/sushi.log:

[2023-07-05 23:40:13.059] [warning] #############################
[2023-07-05 23:40:13.059] [warning]    Started Sushi Logger!
[2023-07-05 23:40:13.059] [warning] #############################
[2023-07-05 23:40:13.064] [info] [plugin_library] Setting base plugin path to: /home/wcroughan/Downloads/sushi/
[2023-07-05 23:40:13.066] [info] [jsonconfig] Setting engine sample rate to 48000.0
[2023-07-05 23:40:13.066] [info] [main] Setting up Jack audio frontend
[2023-07-05 23:40:13.092] [debug] [engine] Successfully registered processor main.
[2023-07-05 23:40:13.092] [info] [engine] Track main successfully added to engine
[2023-07-05 23:40:13.092] [debug] [jsonconfig] Successfully added track "main" to the engine
[2023-07-05 23:40:13.092] [info] [engine] Connected engine output 0 to channel 0 of track "0"
[2023-07-05 23:40:13.092] [info] [engine] Connected engine output 1 to channel 1 of track "0"
[2023-07-05 23:40:13.095] [error] [vst3] Failed to load VST3 Module: /home/wcroughan/Downloads/sushi/mda-vst3.vst3 is not a module directory.
[2023-07-05 23:40:13.095] [error] [engine] Failed to initialize processor mda JX10 with error 8
[2023-07-05 23:40:13.095] [debug] [vst3] Unloading plugin 
[2023-07-05 23:40:13.095] [info] [processor] Destroyed processor 1()

Thanks for any help!

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Hi @wcroughan ,
the Linux binary has only Sushi and not the MDA VST3 files indeed - the macOS VST3 binaries won’t work on Linux.

We can upload the MDA VST3 binaries for Linux to Github, or you can just use the internal plugins / other VST3 as you were using.

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Hi Stefano, if you could upload those that would be very helpful for linux users, maybe as a tar.gz along with the config files and the appimage. Thanks for your help!