[markcleveland]

joabogers wrote:

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.

Yeah even just an “unofficial but working guide” guide would be nice to get us by for workflows that aren’t conducive to having two machines

[markcleveland]

I am hopeful for an announcement of development for Linux support. Especially as the impending doom of Windows 10 is rapidly approaching (eek! Next month!!)

Worth mentioning I purchased multiple versions of EZdrummer and am fairly happy with EZd2, but I would definitely pay for a version that supports Linux (3+ or whatever) so I could use it with my future configuration for that. The issues with VMware means it just won’t cut it.

 

And there is growing need among users for open source AI tools and more private IT solutions, which tend to only be feasible on Linux. This kind of support should be appealing to develop, as a significant portion of the user base for Windows is already jumping ship to Linux, and many more with money to spend on non Windows products will emerge soon (myself included).

And not doing it is really a missed opportunity. Heck, in just a couple months, the majority of this market will have already spent their money to avoid Microsoft’s next slap in the face!

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