[Joey]

No, unfortunately not. A TT person (a developer I assume) said a while back they had read this thread but said they couldn’t comment on whether or not there were plans. I finally got EZ mix 3, EZ drummer, and the product manager all running under wine and working within Reaper on Ubuntu 24 using the Yaw bridge VST wrapper. I never had to fool with it again after getting it setup and the products have continued to worked after getting updates so it’s not too bad. However it would be nice to not feel like a second class citizen… I guess it’s not as bad as Native Instruments though; they’re stuff won’t work in wine as at all, and their developers were very crude and nasty in their response about supporting it. We just sold all of our NI stuff and started turning down clients that just “have” to use NI.

 

Having used Windows and Mac for close to 20 years, I just absolutely love the performance boost on Linux and the audio routing capabilities of pipewire! We’re never going back.

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[Joey]

I 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

[Joey]

We’re finished with Windows and have switched to Linux (Ubuntu 24). It’s really disappointing to see Toontrack still doesn’t have a Linux version available. Trying to run Ezmix 3 in any version of Wine has proved fruitless. Most of the time it won’t launch at all, and if it does, it has graphics issues and is unusable. So many people I know and work with have dumped Windows. What’s it gonna take to get a Linux version of this? Are we free to resell our license info to another Windows user if Toontrack isn’t gonna address this?

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