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.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • HouseWolf@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 years ago

        Might depend on what DAW you use but I found it abit tedious to setup with Ardour, but after that it worked perfectly with the VSTs I was running on Windows, mainly Amplitube 5.

      • Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I use it for spitfire labs, ott, and delay lama (very important) and all work great. There are occasional crashes when messing with parameters, but usually those don’t happen more then once. I haven’t noticed any performance issues.

      • scharf_2x40@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        Reasonable well.

        Getting plugins to install is often a big hurdle, if they are working, they work. However I think performance suffers alot. Didn’t try it on any bigger synths yet tho.

    • astraeus@programming.dev
      1·
      2 years ago

      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

  • mvirts@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 years ago

    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

  • noddy@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    Surge XT is a must. Best FOSS synth there is IMO. 3 oscillators in 2 scenes. Filters, effects, all the LFOs and envelopes in the world, all the modulation, expression aftertouch, etc you need. A bunch of presets out of the box. Very flexible synth, though can be a bit learning curve to get going.

    Honorable mentions to Dexed (basically a software DX7), GeonKick (for synthesizing drums), and pianoteq (proprietary, but best there is in piano synth with native linux support).

  • Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    unrelated but does Ableton work with Linux yet? I did a quick search and someone says it works “flawlessly” but the comments indicate this is not true.