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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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eruth26 wrote:

Hey there. First off, I’m asking this question on behalf of my boyfriend. He has a modified (extra cymbal and double bass mesh heads connected with splitters) Alesis Nitro Mesh kit and he recently (a few weeks) has bought all this recording software along with EZDrummer. We have not been able to figure out why the e-drums won’t trigger in EZDrummer. We’ve connected it with a usb from the port on the module to the laptop, selected the Alesis from within EZD, Tried different Midi channels, it’s hooked up to the audio interface(Scarlett 2i2 3rd gen) and nothing seems to actually get it to trigger in EZD. So if anyone has the patience to help two idiots figure this out I would be incredibly grateful. I hope this makes sense I know nothing about music or recording and have basically had to learn a whole new language to try and help him with this lol.

• This post was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by eruth26.

It seems that your problem is not so much with the EZDrummer itself, but with the way the Alesis module sends the MIDI signal to the system.
In such cases, the most common reason is that the EZDrummer simply does not “see” the input as a MIDI device, even if the USB is physically connected. An important point: the Scarlett 2i2 does not transmit MIDI at all here, it is only an audio interface, that is, the role of the “bridge” between the drums and the program should be performed by the Alesis module itself. What you describe is a very typical situation for the first setup of electronic drums — it is more like setting up the system than the music itself. But when everything works, it will be a completely different game — literally click and immediately sounds like a full studio.

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