KVR Audio

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 8:34 pm

Have you successfully installed a recent N.I product that lists win7
is a minimum OS requirement? Wine version used?
I bought Razor and Kontakt Elements, and have the free reaktor player/content,
but when they released Replika, it wouldn't install, and many reaktor ensembles
require a newer Reaktor version, which also didn't install. I should read the tips and tricks
in the Arch wiki pages this week!

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:22 pm

What ? Me ? No.

I don't use Wine,i only use Linux native plugins.

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:47 pm

Sorry, I think you replied to ccDuckett, and I misconstrued things.
Have you tried Helm? Looks to be a bright spot among the recent
native linux instruments. Good balance of sounds and modulations,
easy to use in a nice gui, and a dev that communicates

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 11:08 pm

glokraw wrote:Sorry, I think you replied to ccDuckett, and I misconstrued things.

No i wasn't replying to anything really. I just stated my experience with Arch and Daws.

glokraw wrote:Have you tried Helm? Looks to be a bright spot among the recent
native linux instruments. Good balance of sounds and modulations,
easy to use in a nice gui, and a dev that communicates

No i haven't tried it yet. I saw and it's on the radar but i'm holding off for the moment. There seems to be some stability issues which i can't be bothered with for the moment. But it sure is tempting.

And open source too, gotta love that.

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 2:13 am

Wusikstation author William K is pondering a linux port,
so linux users, speak up if you'd like an affordable
sample based modular synth with thousands of sounds,
to fill in some gaps in the linux audio juggernaut.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 1&t=442869

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 1:54 am

New release, 2.0 of linuxsampler, adds articulation scripting of giga format,
and general use of sfz/sf2, and 'much much more'. Years of infrastructure
changes, now enable future enhancements etc etc

http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Release_Not ... ler_2_0_0/

A new guitarix 0.33, with many more fuzzbox and wah editions.
Keeps getting better and better. Standalone and plugin.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/

http://guitarix.org/

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Wed Aug 26, 2015 4:31 am

A linux sampler that isn't linuxsampler? Bliss from

www.discodsp.com

samples presets from linux vsts like Zebra, Discovery Pro, TAL Noisemaker,
plays sfz files, has a range of effects, filters and modulations,
and quite a bargain while still in beta, for $50.
Hardware sampling will arrive in the future.
New code, not the old Highlife.

NystagmusE · Post by **NystagmusE** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:50 am

I am still running FL Studio 12 and Reaper v5x on Wine v1.7.50 and everything is OK.
I had a few freeware plugins that didn't act right so I got rid of them but everything is pretty much stable.

The only lingering problem I have is text fields within some programs having the text cropped too short.

I read distrowatch.org a lot and occasionally have ideas about dual booting Ubuntu Studio with something else, but I never really
get to that cause I haven't found any other distros too appealing. But I do have Puppy Linux installed in a tiny partition in case I need to go root and access my files.

I never use Linux audio softwares to make music though. I'm pretty much settled into Reaper. I don't use JACK either. PulseAudio is OK if you configure the buffers right in it's preferences files.

Poise stopped working and that bugs me though, so I'm currently demoing Sam Sampler and LoopAZoid to use instead. They aren't
as powerful as Poise, but they work.

I am liking Ubuntu Studio for internet work too. It's got Xfce so it's reasonable.

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 12:23 am

Have you tried copying real windows .ttf files for Times New Roman and Arial
to /usr/share/fonts and /home/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts ?

(I know the Vera font used by U-he, had to be the one and only magic Vera,
in my setup at least).

Or perhaps a dpi setting change in winecfg?

There are also ubuntu packages to install microsoft related fonts,
in PPA's if not the main repositories. Might help with sundry plugins in the future.

Cool to see people have FL Studio running. Sytrus! I'm enjoying the new reaper 5 era.
Might have to buy some video gear now.

You might like the linux versions of the U-he collection, Zebra installs the free Zebralette
(a one-synth-challenge instrument, a while back
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=327458

and their Podolski is also a fine free synth. For those, I use qtractor daw or bitwig-demo.
The betas of discoDSP sampler Bliss also work well. Good times all around

Cheers

NystagmusE · Post by **NystagmusE** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:27 am

@ Glokraw... Yes, I have the Windows Core Fonts installed as well as all the other common Windows fonts. That was one of the first steps I did when I first set up my DAW. I also tried the DPI setting in WineConfig. I'm really not sure where the bug is, but not all Windows programs have the truncated text, just a few, such as Reaper. But thanks for the suggestions. I appreciate it.

I do like Zebralette; I have that installed as a VSTi.

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Thu Sep 10, 2015 4:59 am

https://highontechnology.wordpress.com/ ... ul-laptop/

maybe you'll find some hints in the config and links at the site above?

I've been lucky with reaper and text. I've been using Enlightenment,
or the Studio 1337 puppy linux video, for a few years,
and don't upgrade wine as long as it works.

Maybe try the different reaper themes in the options-->themes section,
and some other gui's like lxde, cinnamon, openbox etc.
Or even competing locale choices, australian, english, american versions.
Cheers

Doug B · Post by **Doug B** » Fri Oct 02, 2015 5:43 pm

I just installed eXT2.7 (with license) on Mint Linux 17.x. It's working with it's own synths,etc. Does eXT on Linux use other plugin formats such as ladspa, vsti, alsa, etc?

Thanks

Doug

NystagmusE · Post by **NystagmusE** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 6:08 am

I don't know about the Linux version, but you can use the license file from any OS version in the Windows version. The Windows version can use VST(i)'s. On my Ubuntu System, the Wine/Windows version seems more stable than the Linux version. I'm not sure why.

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 7:48 am

Doug B wrote:I just installed eXT2.7 (with license) on Mint Linux 17.x. It's working with it's own synths,etc. Does eXT on Linux use other plugin formats such as ladspa, vsti, alsa, etc?

Thanks

Doug

You can google 'add kxstudio repositories' and add them to mint, and install linux plugins,
using synaptic, when installed, they have extensions of .so and will be in
/usr/lib/vst /usr/lib/lv2 /usr/lib/ladspa
and can be copied to folders you make like /home/you/.vst etc

There are quite a few, and I don't know if ext2 supports lv2 or native linux vst's.
If not, ardour and qtractor do.

alsa is not a plugin format, it's a sound system.
Cheers

MachFront · Post by **MachFront** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:31 am

The Land of the Lost (and extremely frustrated)!

SO! Since I set up a dual-boot system (small Win7 partition for just and only audio stuff and the remainder a Lubuntu partition for everything else), I have at last set out into this world.
BUT! Now the Win7 (a factory reset) is acting odd (in some instances it acts as though I'm not administrator even though I am and has put lock icons on folders where there should be none) AND Lubuntu is acting up (Lubuntu Software Center shows absolutely no programs...plug-ins and such are present...but things like VLC, Clementine, Chromium, etc. are simply not there).

Of course now (because of Linux) I cannot perform another factory reset of my Win7 because...ya know...grub...and also needing a license key, which I do not have since Win came pre-installed on the computer, to perform a repair install. So, basically, BOTH OSes have f**ked me over.

Well..since it seems I'll be forced into relying only on Linux (since I don't possess a gazillion dollars to buy an OS I already should own (Win7), I decided I'd better figure out audio stuff on Linux.

I load Jack, start it up, load up Hydrogen, load up Seq24 (it looked fun and I just want some simple and straightforward stuff to mess with while getting the basics).
Then, knowing I have to connect stuff in Jack I check connections...and after pulling all of my hair out (quite an accomplishment since I sport a closely shaved dome) I still have no idea what the hell is going on.
Hydrogen is there. Seq24 is not. Only "system".

I've looked about on the net and run searches and tried YouTube vids but everything seems to skip over what would seem to be very important. That is: Then connect the plug to the DAW "IN THIS WAY BY CLICKING THIS AND THEN CLICKING THAT AND DOING THIS". See? See how easy that is?!? Why doesn't anything anywhere that I can find not say/show anything like that?!?
I've constantly felt like a dunce in the Windows audio world...but that was a mere shade of a fraction of a shadow of a miniscule bit of an itty-bitty-teeny-tiny portion of how much of a huge dunce I feel right now in the Linux audio world.
I already miss the ugly OS I have almost zero control over and can't even make look pretty, wherein I could lauch Reaper and load up Synth1 and go.
Is there any hope? Can anything or anyone tell me how to in the way you might tell a mentally deficient five-year-old so that they could do it?

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