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.

[iglemartin]

Just came to say — Please support linux —

Thank you.

[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 :/

[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…

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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.

[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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