I took a look at some of it when I was finding plugins for Linux, those that were native.
I can make recommendations due to some I've used in the past, and same with my producer, Neigsendoig.
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For those unfamiliar with music production: VSTs are basically plugins you can use in music production software (more specifically in "Digital Audio Workstation" software, DAW).
Except they're also not really plugins, because they're actually full-fledged programs, into which an audio stream is fed and then they run arbitrary code to ~~ransom your files~~ transform that audio stream. Well, and typically also to display a UI with knobs to control how the effect should sound like. Those pictures on that webpage are screenshots of their UI.
As a result, most VSTs are basically just bundled EXE files. You can often run them through WINE, but many people use dozens of these VSTs and may even pay money for them, so you really don't want to have to worry about them not working under Linux.