KVR Audio

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 5:23 am

I can hardly believe it. It seems I might finally have a reason to seriously check out linux as a viable production platform and finally be rid of windows and there forced updates and other invasive practices. I will definitely be on the look out to see how this develops. I am actually very excited about this. I just hope an easy method to port an already existing vst to the linux version, and not have it be bridged, will be developed soon so we don't have to wait for only new plugins to developed and released this way.

http://cdm.link/2017/03/steinberg-bring ... od-things/

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 5:28 am

Nice, the GPL3 alternate licensing is nice as well. Just now setting up a linux audio box for "fun."

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 6:43 am

Great News!!!

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 7:00 am

BTW: Any thoughts on distros? KXStudio? Ubuntu based or Debian?

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 7:07 am

Great news. Lack of Linux support for music production software in general is the main reason why I stick to Windows.

Still, there's a new rig in my room with Windows 10 DVD yet unboxed

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 7:28 am

DJ Warmonger wrote:Great news. Lack of Linux support for music production software in general is the main reason why I stick to Windows.

Still, there's a new rig in my room with Windows 10 DVD yet unboxed

I'm not giving up windows. I just want a second machine for algorithmic stuff which is easier on linux.

Zexila · Post by **Zexila** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 8:39 am

ghettosynth wrote:BTW: Any thoughts on distros? KXStudio? Ubuntu based or Debian?

Personally, would just use distro I actually like (Linux Mint Cinnamon), but if you don't have any preference, try them all and see what you dig the most.

Maybe try these too:
http://www.bandshed.net/avlinux/
https://ubuntustudio.org/

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 8:42 am

Zexila wrote:
ghettosynth wrote:BTW: Any thoughts on distros? KXStudio? Ubuntu based or Debian?
Personally, would just use distro I actually like (Linux Mint Cinnamon), but if you don't have any preference, try them all and see what you dig the most.

Maybe try these too:
http://www.bandshed.net/avlinux/
https://ubuntustudio.org/

Ah yeah, I probably should have been more specific. That's not where I'm at AT ALL. I've been doing linux since the early 90s, started with Slackware. I just haven't installed in about the last three years. I was just wondering if there were any interesting gotchas among the various debian distributions as a basis for KXStudio.

I switched to Mint when Ubuntu went through their desktop silliness, but, I used Debian and Ubuntu before that.

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 11:22 pm

The only thing that really kept me from using Linux on a permanent basis is a lack of vst/vsti's available for it. My computer broke down after a windows update a while ago and I had to use a ubuntu on a usb stick to get my files and really liked the layout. It is a very basic, free OS. That's all I want for my music production machine. If I had a choice and could run my daw and vsti's without any OS, I think I would do it. I personally would be very willing to ditch windows if I wouldn't miss out on any of the vsti's and daws. The only one I tried was ubuntu, will have a look at the other distro's in the meantime. I think it will take a little while though before my favorite vsti's or enough are transferred over to Linux to seriously look into it Linux, but it is a first step and I welcome it very much

Zexila · Post by **Zexila** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 1:20 am

Not a fan of Windows, quite like the OS X and think I even like more Linux Mint Cinnamon, it's like mixture of Windows and OS X IMO, even pimped it with OS X alike theme (with OS X style windows boarders moved on the left side of the windows), would love to use it for music too for sure.

https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1012716/

This now actually got me back in Bitwig circle, for good second hand price, who knows really.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 1:25 am

Zexila wrote:Not a fan of Windows, quite like the OS X and think I even like more Linux Mint Cinnamon, it's like mixture of Windows and OS X IMO, even pimped it with OS X alike theme (with OS X style windows boarders moved on the left side of the windows), would love to use it for music too for sure.

I've used all of the Mint variants, but I guess I'm not really being clear enough.

Has anyone here installed any of the Linux audio distros? Are there any gotchas or advantages of a particular distribution in terms of issues with the rt kernel and/or other configuration issues?

Zexila · Post by **Zexila** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 1:30 am

ghettosynth wrote:
I've used all of the Mint variants, but I guess I'm not really being clear enough.

Has anyone here installed any of the Linux audio distros? Are there any gotchas or advantages of a particular distribution in terms of issues with the rt kernel and/or other configuration issues?

Sorry, wasn't particularly responding to you, don't know really, I'm not into it that much, being using Mint as my desktop OS and never clicked with music on Linux before, so didn't even bothered much researching about it and as I said, will just continue to use distro I like anyways for it, so yeah, no help from me.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 1:33 am

Zexila wrote:
ghettosynth wrote:
I've used all of the Mint variants, but I guess I'm not really being clear enough.

Has anyone here installed any of the Linux audio distros? Are there any gotchas or advantages of a particular distribution in terms of issues with the rt kernel and/or other configuration issues?
Sorry, wasn't particularly responding to you, don't know really, I'm not into it that much, being using Mint as my desktop OS and never clicked with music on Linux before, so didn't even bothered much researching about it and as I said, will just continue to use distro I like anyways for it, so yeah, no help from me.

Sure, thanks, I guess I'll be the guinea pig and get back to you.

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 3:32 am

ghettosynth wrote:BTW: Any thoughts on distros? KXStudio? Ubuntu based or Debian?

In general, I use Ubuntu Mate as my regular system (just a personal preference). After a hard drive crash earlier this year, I finally made the complete jump--just Linux running here.

I use iOS for music, but have been trying to make the transition to Linux as well. Ubuntu studio, KXStudio, and AV Linux are all great choices. In fact, I've recently found that just about any distro that uses a general kernel newer than 3.x is sufficient. Starting with version 3.x, the low-level kernel was mainstreamed into the general kernel. All that is needed to get low latency in a standard distro with v. 3.x or higher is to "whitelist" applications that you want to run with low latency (In short, you enter a single command, telling the software to run a particular application [such as Ardour, for instance], with low latency preemption.

See here for details:

http://slackermedia.info/handbook/doku.php?id=kernel

Further, KXStudio and the Ubuntu Studio packages will install into any of the existing Ubuntu flavors. So, there are lots of options.

Personally, I think Ardour and the KXStudio packages are essentials in the linux world. Ardour is well respected in the pro audio world.

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 3:45 am

ghettosynth wrote:
Zexila wrote:Not a fan of Windows, quite like the OS X and think I even like more Linux Mint Cinnamon, it's like mixture of Windows and OS X IMO, even pimped it with OS X alike theme (with OS X style windows boarders moved on the left side of the windows), would love to use it for music too for sure.

I've used all of the Mint variants, but I guess I'm not really being clear enough.

Has anyone here installed any of the Linux audio distros? Are there any gotchas or advantages of a particular distribution in terms of issues with the rt kernel and/or other configuration issues?

Ubuntu Studio isn't much more than a regular Ubuntu distro with apps configured with low latency preemption. The app choices that it installs with are multi-media specific.

KXStudio has all of the special "KXStudio-specific" add-ons. I believe it also comes configured to use Windows VSTs through Wine (don't quote me on that). It is basically an everything including the kitchen sink distro.

Last I checked, AV Linux was taking a more "minimal" route with their latest version. I believe they were creating a solid low-latency base, but not installing many programs. That way, you can just install what you want from the repos, rather than getting everything you could imagine in one package. It is designed more for the person who doesn't want everything, but knows exactly what they do want.

It's been a while since I've looked specifically at the distros, because I'm looking at configuring Ubuntu Mate to do what I want rather than going with a specific distro, so I could be wrong on some of this stuff. I don't know of any specific "gotchas" with any of them though.

I hope some of this helps......

Steinberg Brings VST to Linux!