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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[Captainn]

You are essentially describing the situation correctly: the problem here is not in the DAW (Reaper and Ardour really work well on Linux), but in the fact that the Toontrack ecosystem is historically Windows/macOS-oriented and is almost not tested natively under Linux. Wine works here as a compromise layer – that’s why EZDrummer runs, but instability or minor bugs are almost inevitable.
And here your key point arises: Linux users often do not want to switch to Windows, and they have to “dance with Wine” instead of just working. This is a real gap in the market, but for large audio companies it is still considered a niche.
If such tools had an official Linux line, it would really remove many barriers for studios working on an open stack. But for now it is more a matter of demand than technical impossibility.

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[iglemartin]

Just came to say — Please support linux —

Thank you.

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[Takusan]

Just to keep the topic alive: yes, please support Linux natively. Linux desktop will continue growing, seeing the sentiment against Windows and the fact that DAWs and software like Davinci Resolve have well maintained Linux versions.

I miss using EZDrummer, but stopped using Windows at all around two years after spending hard earned coin on the VST and drum kits :/

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[Hans van Rijswijk]

I feel also the urge to change my DAW and VST’s to a Linux environment. I own Reaper and use Wine to do so. But by doing so I spent more time problem solving than music making. I own also stuff from Native Instruments like Guitar Rig, same problem… So I had to go back to Windows 11. But I encountered a version, called Windows 11 LTSC and it comes without all the annoying stuff. For now it functiones perfect, but, the moment the Wine problems are solved and/of the VST manufacturers make their products available for Linux, I will step over…

• This post was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by Hans van Rijswijk.
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[Jerryteacup]

I’m starting to think about mass emailing. Not necessarily a great idea, I know that much… but still. Hell. I don’t understand all the technicalities. Just… I sometimes wonder how hard it would be to make these things as independent of the operation system as possible.

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[joabogers]

Perhaps if they split off the platformbindings for the presentationlayer and opensource it, the community could chip in for Linux / Wayland compatibility. But given the competition in this market and the fact that Toontrack has no presence in opensource, I doubt it’s a path they’d follow even if their architecture is prepped for such an adventure.

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[jpileborg]

Just my two cents (as a life-long software developer), but for most companies that support both Windows and macOS the hardest part is already done: Making the architecture portable between vastly different systems.

If it has been done once, it’s usually much much easier to add support for a third system.

So why don’t companies do that? The developers wouldn’t mind (and may actually love it). The testers have to add another virtual system but the tests themselves shouldn’t change. It’s really a business decisions. All the talk about “market share” is just business-speak for “can’t be arsed to bother”, as they can’t see beyond the next quarter. They only see the short-term costs, not the long-term revenue.

• This post was modified 3 months ago by jpileborg.
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[tdgeddes]

Yet another request for Linux support.

 

Tim G

[Dr.Kness]

2026 and still waiting for Toontrack product´s native linux support. Windows is awful and the only thing holding me from completly moving to Linux is SD3. Having spend a lot of hard earned money into SD3 and expansions made things really difficult to abandon Windows.

[David Brookes]

I currently run Linux on my Laptop  and Windows 11  on my Desktop.   I run Reaper on both but only have Toontrack on Windows.  It would be brilliant to have native Linux support.  I decided to not deepen my investment in non Linux compatible music resources so no longer adding to my collection of  EZX’s, midi files nor other products like EZBass.  I’m about to commence my research of Linux native tools to avoid the need for Wine etc.

[tdgeddes]

Please support linux. The state of the world right now, linux is our only place that we know will work when everything goes to crap.   Not even 100% support, just have your guys look into wine support and check it.

All of your work and all your investments will be null and void when M$ and Apple start telling people they cannot access their software if they dont concede to a certain ideology.  I wanna be able to make music on my backup battery.

Prepper 101.. Why did I pay you guys for your work, if I can’t make it work under duress.

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[KEITH]

After contributing multiple appeals on this forum for Linux support I have come to the conclusion that Toontrack either do not care or, more likely, are incapable of providing such support. Either way, it seems that it is time to give up and move on. The need to distance myself from Winslop is greater than my need to keep EZ Drummer and EZ Keys and I am so pleased that I held back from EZ Bass.

It is a shame but it is now out of my hands. I have refrained from buying anymore Midi / expansion packs for a while now while I waited to see what, if anything would be done, but the waiting is over and I will now have to begin the, no doubt deliberately arduous and convoluted process, of selling on my Toontrack products. It is a shame but the fun is dissipating fast.

I still have a Winslop machine that runs Toontrack stuff but it is not connected to the internet and is becoming unstable and unreliable and when it finally gives up the ghost, which will not be long, it will have Linux installed and then it will be goodbye.

• This post was modified 5 days, 20 hours ago by KEITH.

[wojtek.k1999]

Another request for Linux support here

[mobslum]

Linux please! windows gets me constant blue screens and i’m forced out of that problematic annoying platform.
Please, just make a port for linux, please!!!!!!!!!!!!

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