joabogersDAWs 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.
DanWe’ve already fully switched to linux on the main computer(s) and just have a hold out windows machine for now for a relatively short list of tools and toontrack products is one. But now we’re in the mode of just freezing the EZdrummer tracks, doing everything else on linux and only coming back to the windows machine if we have to change something in a drum track. Not the most friendly of workflows but that’s what it is for now. At this point, the first decent drum plugin with native linux support will win for me. Hopefully it is toontrack.
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thedrumdoctorI’ll throw my tuppence in for Linux, but it won’t happen. I use Affinity Design Suite and you should see the multiple threads in the user forums demanding/begging/screaming for a Linux version. No one’s expecting a free version either. Everyone is prepared to pay for a Linux version but it’s not going to happen. I doubt Toontrack have Linux in their future projects like Affinity don’t. I’ve accepted a move to Apple because I’m not buying into Windows 11. But I’ll live in hope for a change of heart.
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markclevelandI am hopeful for an announcement of development for Linux support. Especially as the impending doom of Windows 10 is rapidly approaching (eek! Next month!!)
Worth mentioning I purchased multiple versions of EZdrummer and am fairly happy with EZd2, but I would definitely pay for a version that supports Linux (3+ or whatever) so I could use it with my future configuration for that. The issues with VMware means it just won’t cut it.
And there is growing need among users for open source AI tools and more private IT solutions, which tend to only be feasible on Linux. This kind of support should be appealing to develop, as a significant portion of the user base for Windows is already jumping ship to Linux, and many more with money to spend on non Windows products will emerge soon (myself included).
And not doing it is really a missed opportunity. Heck, in just a couple months, the majority of this market will have already spent their money to avoid Microsoft’s next slap in the face!
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Thanked by: wannabee and kahiona42markclevelandI’m reading reports with mixed results of people running Ubuntu Studio + wine + yabridge and not much else to get Toontrack Product Manager and various EZ* product VSTs working. The most common problem is that dragging MIDI fragments from the EZ Drummer UI into a DAW doesn’t work, and another is that installing updates via the Toontrack Product Manager in Wine is easy to mess up. Yet there are people who have gotten it up and running.
In their attempts to get it to work, people tend to go down rabbit holes that : install various audio and video libraries, try Carla, mess around with pipewire, pulseaudio and jack, install multiple versions of wine… If Toontrack isn’t committed to getting their products working on an OS that has a brighter future than Windows, they could at least put up an unofficial, no-guarantees, don’t-base-your-purchase-decision-on-this manual up at https://www.toontrack.com/manual/superior-drummer-3/?search=linux to save people having to roam around Reddit to find decade-old posts that will bollox up your OS if followed now.
Yeah even just an “unofficial but working guide” guide would be nice to get us by for workflows that aren’t conducive to having two machines
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kahiona42Me too! I just switched to Linux and was sad to find that all my Toontrack purchases will not come along without a ruckus. Help us cut the chains of Bill by freeing us from the tyranny that is windows.
wannabeeI think a lot of us are planing to migrate away from Windows. Yes, please bring this to your leadership.
Linux is really the wave of the future.
Microsoft, Oracle, etc all run Linux in their datacenters…
Please bring ToonTrack into the future…
Thanks.
Vaughn GoldAgree with everyone here, being able to use EZ Drummer with Linux DAWs (Reaper in my case) would surely result in more people buying the products.
KEITHIf the developers are reading, how about this. They chime in with a reply along the lines of
A… We are seriously looking at it, give us a few months to a year
B…..We are not looking at it but we haven`t ruled it out
C…..There is no chance, so do not hold your breath
At least that way we will know where we stand and can plan accordingly. I do not think it is too much to ask.
Joey PrevoI agree, it’d be really nice to know if there is a future for Toontrack past windows and mac. Almost everyone I know has dropped windows, it’s wild. I know several people using reaper on Ubuntu like we do in our studio and it’s been fantastic. I always knew there was a decent performance hit on Windows and Mac, but Ubuntu… Wow!
I’m a professional developer myself and I understand the work involved, but I think the time has finally arrived to take Linux development seriously. We begun porting all of our enterprise products to Linux. Our codebase started in the mid 90s so it’s been quite the undertaking.
Please Toontrack, let us know if this is on your radar
ScottUnfortunately Toontrack never comments on future releases or developments. They do read and make note of requests and are well aware of the desire for it.
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ArchangelMichaelNot that I’m an expert in anything, anywhere, for any reason, but I wanted to put this out in the forum because it was on my mind. Has anyone tried to use Zorin Pro? Is it possible that some of the “drag drop” / video issues are because of the non proprietary video card drivers in most basic linux distro’s. Anyway, that’s off my chest. Like many of you my main workstation is being scheduled for planned obsolescence as well despite being more than powerful enough to run microcrap 11 fold. If anyone gives Zorin a run, please post it. I am planning on it, but don’t know how long before I can, but there will be no wincrap 11 on this machine. Have a good one!
joabogersYeah ZorinOS looks promising. I found a post on the Zorin OS forum that mentions some good practices if you want to get VST plugins working. Haven’t tried it yet, but I recognize some of the steps I took in the past that worked well, like yabridge. What’s nice is that that post also mentions tips to ensure things keep working after updates, which is where things went sour for me last time I tried updating EZ Drummer VSTs on Ubuntu. It doesn’t mention Toontrack specifically, but it does mention other tools that I know are similary hard to set up on Linux. https://forum.zorin.com/t/music-audio-production-in-linux-how-to-integrate-your-windows-based-plugins-vst2-vst3-clap/38314
LauperAs an avid Linux user, I wholeheartidly second the idea of SD3 (and other Toontrack products) being made available natively to Linux users. SD3 is the last piece of software I would need to drop Windows entirely when it comes to music production. And I am not going to MacOS : same poison, different taste.
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