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I installed a copy of Ubuntu Studio on a spare machine a couple of years ago. I had come from Windows and Reaper and was used to one app where everything was co

I installed a copy of Ubuntu Studio on a spare machine a couple of years ago. I had come from Windows and Reaper and was used to one app where everything was controlled by the app. I was relatively new to Linux but kind of new my way around. But I found the principal of separate applications talking to each other a compelling idea, but in practice totally frustrating! I had VSTs I wanted to use and I got some to work though I don't remember how, but many synths just wanted to act alone via communication. Has anyone done anything to make all that less of a headache? Or was I doing it wrong? Not suggesting this is any fault of Ardour's.

PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
Plugins on Linux work just the same way they do on macOS and Windows. But yes, it is true that to some extent, there was a tradition from the late 90s to the 20-teens to create synths as standalone apps for Linux, connected via JACK. That is really going away now, and you can run U-he synths, Helm, Vitalium, Serge and many others as plugins just like you do on macOS and Windows.
squarefoot 4y ago
I've used LinVST in the past to run Windows VSTs on Linux with mixed success, but it was more of a hit and miss; today I'm extremely happy with Yabridge which is a lot more polished, doesn't crap out at every WINE update and also is much quicker to operate. https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
rigonkulous 4y ago
Exactly opposite situation in my case - my Ubuntu Studio rig has been rock solid for tracking and many projects .. but the good news is that even if, for whatever reason, you can't qite grok things to be as productive as a pro Ubuntu Studio user (hint: you can) we have all the good things happening in ZynthianOS to explore, anyway - and this just wraps up the same essential goodies into a hardware device that is push-button-user friendly: http://zynthian.org http://zynthian.org And of course there are bleeding edge lessons learned, applied in things like monome, etc.

PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago

Plugins on Linux work just the same way they do on macOS and Windows. But yes, it is true that to some extent, there was a tradition from the late 90s to the 20-teens to create synths as standalone apps for Linux, connected via JACK. That is really going away now, and you can run U-he synths, Helm, Vitalium, Serge and many others as plugins just like you do on macOS and Windows.

squarefoot 4y ago

I've used LinVST in the past to run Windows VSTs on Linux with mixed success, but it was more of a hit and miss; today I'm extremely happy with Yabridge which is a lot more polished, doesn't crap out at every WINE update and also is much quicker to operate. https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge

rigonkulous 4y ago

Exactly opposite situation in my case - my Ubuntu Studio rig has been rock solid for tracking and many projects .. but the good news is that even if, for whatever reason, you can't qite grok things to be as productive as a pro Ubuntu Studio user (hint: you can) we have all the good things happening in ZynthianOS to explore, anyway - and this just wraps up the same essential goodies into a hardware device that is push-button-user friendly: http://zynthian.org http://zynthian.org And of course there are bleeding edge lessons learned, applied in things like monome, etc.