Linux support for Toontrack products

[joabogers]

DAWs like Reaper and Ardour work on Linux just fine,...

DAWs like Reaper and Ardour work on Linux just fine, but the Toontrack stack not supporting it fully breaks the experience. Using Wine I can get quite a long way with using EZ Drummer on Linux, but it’s less than ideal. Even though VST should be OS agnostic, it’s clear Toontrack products weren’t developed with Linux in mind. And that’s a shame, because nobody I know who’s into audio engineering willingly chooses Windows.

Please support Linux.

DAWs like Reaper and Ardour work on Linux just fine, but the Toontrack stack not supporting it fully breaks the experience. Using Wine I can get quite a long way with using EZ Drummer on Linux, but it’s less than ideal. Even though VST should be OS agnostic, it’s clear Toontrack products weren’t developed with Linux in mind. And that’s a shame, because nobody I know who’s into audio engineering willingly chooses Windows.

Please support Linux.

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[Matthias Reichart]

I am also willing to ditch windows and Mac OS (due to recent orange psychotic reasons who pushed me to switch earlier) and that search brought me here. I love Toontracks products for years. I still use Drumkit from Hell from time to time for nostalgia but love SD3 and Keys, …. I love it. So if it would be available on linux, that would make me very happy. Thanks.

[Clement Caltot]

Hello there.
I’m a new Linux user, and would really appreciate if there was easier ways to run Toontrack products on Linux. I’ve been using Reaper regulary so that is pretty easy for me but still…

I’ve installed Superior 3 & EZ Bass, but I’m stuck at th loading page for Superior, and I wasn’t able to point at my library in EZBass.

Official  support would be really enjoyable.

[Clement Caltot]

Clement Caltot wrote:

Hello there.
I’m a new Linux user, and would really appreciate if there was easier ways to run Toontrack products on Linux. I’ve been using Reaper regulary so that is pretty easy for me but still…

I’ve installed Superior 3 & EZ Bass, but I’m stuck at th loading page for Superior, and I wasn’t able to point at my library in EZBass.

Official  support would be really enjoyable.

Yeah, as it turns out, I wasn’t stuck but the windows were not refreshig when clicking somewhere.
So… I kinda works but I can’t really check…

[heepster]

Switching to Linux myself due to the highway robbery of Windows.  If Toontrack doesn’t listen to Linux users they are going to lose a lot of customers.  Like others have said, there are other Linux-friendly options.

[KEITH]

I am not sure if there are any viable options to EZ Drummer in Linux. I also use a program called Lightburn to control a laser cutter. The company has recently announced that they are dropping Linux support due to the extra workload caused due to the number of Linux flavours and all needing special individual attention, and I would imagine that this problem is why Toontrack are reluctant to look at Linux support.

What I would request is that they choose one distro, be it Debian, Mint, Ubuntu or whatever and have a go at supporting just that one. That way if someone really wants to migrate away from Windows, at least they can say they have supplied an option and the end user cannot really gripe about it anymore.

I will not go to Windows 11, it`s that simple.

If that means throwing away all the money I have spent with Toontrack, then that is very painful and disappointing, but so be it. There is a Linux alternative for almost everything else I do.

I have EZ Keys, but I can manage without it, I have EZ Mix (Not yet upgraded for obvious reasons ) I can manage without it. I do not have EZ Bass yet and the way things are going it looks unlikely that I will.

I wonder, what the options for a substitute for EZ Drummer in Linux, any ideas?

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