[KEITH]

I am not sure if there are any viable options to EZ Drummer in Linux. I also use a program called Lightburn to control a laser cutter. The company has recently announced that they are dropping Linux support due to the extra workload caused due to the number of Linux flavours and all needing special individual attention, and I would imagine that this problem is why Toontrack are reluctant to look at Linux support.

What I would request is that they choose one distro, be it Debian, Mint, Ubuntu or whatever and have a go at supporting just that one. That way if someone really wants to migrate away from Windows, at least they can say they have supplied an option and the end user cannot really gripe about it anymore.

I will not go to Windows 11, it`s that simple.

If that means throwing away all the money I have spent with Toontrack, then that is very painful and disappointing, but so be it. There is a Linux alternative for almost everything else I do.

I have EZ Keys, but I can manage without it, I have EZ Mix (Not yet upgraded for obvious reasons ) I can manage without it. I do not have EZ Bass yet and the way things are going it looks unlikely that I will.

I wonder, what the options for a substitute for EZ Drummer in Linux, any ideas?

[KEITH]

Thanks for that Jerry.

I was not aware of the VST issue, that could explain the reticence on Toontrack`s behalf. I suppose the fact that Reaper does not include any instruments  is partly the reason it is able to work so well in Linux. I am determined to leave Windows behind, one way or another. I am on 10 at the moment and will not move to 11, so it looks like I will have to leave Toontrack behind. I only have EZ Drummer, with half a dozen kits and a bit of Keys, so I will not be looking to expand into Bass or anything else as it seems it would be futile.

I suppose as long as it works on 10 I could just create a drum track and import it into Reaper/Linux as a midi file and forego all the in DAW editability.

I don`t know what to think really. It is all a bit frustrating and sad.

• This post was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by KEITH.

[KEITH]

Yes please introduce support for Linux and give us all a chance to free ourselves from Windows. If one of my Daws ( Mixcraft, Cakewalk, Studio One ) will not work in Linux I can always go to Reaper for not a lot of money. But if Toontrack products cannot be used then what would be the point. I haven`t checked any rivals to EZ Drummer as yet as I have quite a bit invested in Toontrack and it would be hard to write it all off even if there is a workable alternative, but these pleas do seem to fall on deaf ears. It is so frustrating.

How about a definite answer, either you are looking at it, or forget it, definitely no Linux. At least we would know where we stand.

Linux support please, you know you want to.

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