[joabogers]

Yeah 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

[joabogers]

Yeah there’s a problem with Wine and the switch that Ubuntu made to Wayland. People are reverting to x11 and older versions of Wine, but that’s not a long-term solution. Toontrack building a proper Ubuntu/Wayland-compatible version would save a lot of trouble.

[joabogers]

I’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.

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Thanked by: wannabee, welkyn and markcleveland

[joabogers]

I have to say I find it quite disappointing to get no customer service reply after close to a month. Why have a forum called Requests & Feedback if there’s no feedback?

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