My main music machine is a Mac and my main everything else system is a Lenovo laptop with Pop!_OS. I would like to have the option to play with ideas on my Linux machine instead of having to switch systems when I feel inspired.
I already own the full version of Bitwig Studio butvI would love to throw some must have, Linux compatible, VST plugins into the mix.
Free sample sources would also be much appreciated.
Vital is… well, vital. There’s also a huge collection of basic effects for Linux here: https://lsp-plug.in/
I also use a lot of windows vsts though yabridge.
Could you please provide a brief description of Vital? I’m in the process of rebuilding my musicmaking setup after a 15 years long hiatus, so I need to update myself on what’s out there.
On that note, it looks like I’m gonna go for bitwig over Ardour. Any thoughts/opinions on that?
Unless I went to the wrong place, it’s a wavetable synth.
How well does yabridge work? I own a metric fuckton of VST plugins.
That said, I might keep my Linux system as a place to play with FOSS plugins, but I am still curious.
In my experience yabridge is fantastic. With a bit of initial setup, it’s the closest thing to a native experience that I’ve come across.
You do control it with a CLI interface, so you need to be comfortable with that.
You also need to have already installed the Windows VSTs manually using WINE or whatever, and so there’s a bit of a typical “how well does this work under wine” crapshoot and a bit of a learning curve there.
I wonder if these LSP Plugins work for Reaper on a Mac or Windows, gonna try it out but I expect it will have issues
Modartt’s Pianoteq is a nice Linux native, physically modeled piano plugin.
I love Vital (Vitalium) and Zyn-Fusion. Surge and Odin are great too. all of them are open source and work great with bitwig.
This looks cool
Surge XT, it’s LV2 but still awesome
Also I’m a zynaddsubfx / yoshimi die hard. Not for everyone but it can do almost everything if you can live with 8bit automation parameters
SurgeXT supports VST; LV2 is actually unsupported for recent releases: https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/changelog/
Uhoh, I’m using the LV2. Do you guys really run the VST through WINE? I was glad, I didn’t have to look into that…
You can run vsts natively on Linux these days… Not that I actually do 😹but surge may make me give it a shot, I didn’t know LV2 is unsupported
VST is native and actually better for the CPU in the SurgeXT case. I also use it in LV2, and now I’ve all my projects that needs a conversion from that, maybe I could compile the 1.2 version from source; I don’t know but it’s annoying ¢_¢ [edit] Oh yeah, I’ve found it here so I can save my presets! https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/s/
