Running commercial audio software on linux

[mabian]

Soundpaint runs smooth in Wine, at least up to version 3.1.2, and it's quite cool.

[uOpt]

Thanks for the info, folks.

[audiojunkie]

Do any of the big sampler software pieces run in Wine?

Maybe Kontakt player? It shouldn't have DRM, no?

The best sampler that currently runs natively is TX16Wx. It is amazingly powerful, and uses an open format. Furthermore, it imports many formats. It has a very fair licensing plan, that is very reasonable! Most people will only have to pay €39.00 (ex. VAT) -- unless they make a lot of money commercially off of TX16Wx, in which case it is €99.00 (ex. VAT). It is a beautiful, well thought out, native tool!!

https://www.tx16wx.com/product/tx16wx-v3/

The only negative, is that it does not come with an default instrument library. However, it can natively import many formats.

In addition, you can import even more formats into it through the use of ConvertWithMoss:

https://www.mossgrabers.de/Software/Con ... hMoss.html

I could point you to close to 300GB of very high quality sampled instruments that are mostly free---some with valid Open Source licensing, and some with very inexpensive Commercial licensing.

[uOpt]

I didn't realize TX16Wx has a Linux version. Looks like a good buy. Thanks so much.

[mabian]

I didn't realize TX16Wx has a Linux version. Looks like a good buy. Thanks so much.

It's fairly recent. But now it's here

Time to revisit it for me too...

- Mario

[lunardigs]

Don't forget Decent Sampler.

[mabian]

Don't forget Decent Sampler.

As mentioned by others I have seen a bit too many crashes-to-desktop with Decent Sampler.

[j_e_g]

a bit too many crashes-to-desktop with Decent Sampler.

Maybe write the developer and ask if he would add the ability to configure where the program crashes to.

[lunardigs]

Do any of the big sampler software pieces run in Wine?

Maybe Kontakt player? It shouldn't have DRM, no?

The best sampler that currently runs natively is TX16Wx. It is amazingly powerful, and uses an open format. Furthermore, it imports many formats. It has a very fair licensing plan, that is very reasonable! Most people will only have to pay €39.00 (ex. VAT) -- unless they make a lot of money commercially off of TX16Wx, in which case it is €99.00 (ex. VAT). It is a beautiful, well thought out, native tool!!

https://www.tx16wx.com/product/tx16wx-v3/

The only negative, is that it does not come with an default instrument library. However, it can natively import many formats.

In addition, you can import even more formats into it through the use of ConvertWithMoss:

https://www.mossgrabers.de/Software/Con ... hMoss.html

I could point you to close to 300GB of very high quality sampled instruments that are mostly free---some with valid Open Source licensing, and some with very inexpensive Commercial licensing.

How would you rate/compare TX16Wx beat-slicing ability? Does it do a better job than Bitwig, for instance, or Renoise Redux?

[audiojunkie]

Do any of the big sampler software pieces run in Wine?

Maybe Kontakt player? It shouldn't have DRM, no?

The best sampler that currently runs natively is TX16Wx. It is amazingly powerful, and uses an open format. Furthermore, it imports many formats. It has a very fair licensing plan, that is very reasonable! Most people will only have to pay €39.00 (ex. VAT) -- unless they make a lot of money commercially off of TX16Wx, in which case it is €99.00 (ex. VAT). It is a beautiful, well thought out, native tool!!

https://www.tx16wx.com/product/tx16wx-v3/

The only negative, is that it does not come with an default instrument library. However, it can natively import many formats.

In addition, you can import even more formats into it through the use of ConvertWithMoss:

https://www.mossgrabers.de/Software/Con ... hMoss.html

I could point you to close to 300GB of very high quality sampled instruments that are mostly free---some with valid Open Source licensing, and some with very inexpensive Commercial licensing.

How would you rate/compare TX16Wx beat-slicing ability? Does it do a better job than Bitwig, for instance, or Renoise Redux?

Unfortunately, I have used neither Bitwig nor Renoise Redux, so I haven't really got much to compare with on those. I personally think the best beat slicer in the Linux world is HY-Slicer 2:

https://hy-plugins.com/product/hy-slicer2/

Over All though, TX16Wx is a remarkably complete tool that does so much that I consider essential in the sampling world. Add to the fact that they provide an open format, and nothing else compares to it in the Linux world. If you are looking for the lo-fi side of things, TAL-Sampler is still probably the best for that. TAL-Sampler is another fantastic tool for Linux users--just not as complete or as powerful as TX16Wx.

[glokraw]

I really appreciate that BlueCat Audio provides their Axiom amp-sim_effects-suite without burdening customers with some freaky 'manager app' Since V1 has worked great in my linux setups, I upgraded to version 2.2, and it's still working great, with many improvements/additions since the original purchase. Immense capabilities that for now, will remain above my pay grade, as I explore the basic sounds and effects, which are as good or better than anything that comes burdened with extraneous non-music tomfoolery etc. The pic is from an AVLinux distro with
wine-staging 9.21 and debian Bookworm repositories, maybe 18 months old, but running fine.

Axiom-Late-replies-linux.jpg

[pekbro]

I thought this was pretty nice for €7.80, there are native versions for linux...

https://audyo-engineering.com/index.html#twinpitch

[glokraw]

Experimenting today with things I've not previously considered combining, but after 2 many clicks, found some nice layers, with a pad from Dmitry Sches Thorn, a punchy EP from IK's Syntronik SY99, and some delay effect with Amplitube 4's Fulltone collection.

Thorn-Syntonik-A4-Fulltone.jpg

[NWSM]

MX Linux - KDE - Debian 12 bookworm - X11
i5 14600K
64GB RAM
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

Audio:
alsa - wireplumber - pipewire

I only use native Linux Plugins as principle, i don't buy any non-native-linux Plugins to push the Linux Industry
to give it more weight:

i bought:
- DAW Bitwig 5.3.13 (no issues, minor graphic feedback lags)
- DAW Renoise (works now, was read ab realtime kernel stuff but now i can run, tweaking a bit in the settings - i actually dont now how or why it is running know, i tweaked some RT settings but not sure if that was the solution)
- u-he (no issues)
- Glitch2 (no issues)
- VCV2 (no issues)
- Venomode Maximizer3, DeeQ (looks good, working great)
- TAL Bassline 101, Filter (no issues)
- HY Plugins (works pretty good, minor GUI lags)

you could buy:
- toneboosters (no issues, little GUI lag in resizing but could be my system/ setup as well)

Plugins with Issues i bought:
- Quanta2 (CLAP meeh, can't drop files into GUI in Bitwig, this installer looks weird but worked, some gui glitches missing fonts and words i did not contact the devs yet, will more testing soon (you get VST3, LV and CLAP) in other DAWs - TRY DEMO before buying!!!)

[mabian]

These threads are getting more and more serious

After working a bit (but not real stuff), I'd add to NWSM list above, only Linux native - no Wine:

- Apisonic Speedrum (works well, some minor annoyance but I'm in touch with the dev)
- Algonaut Atlas (works well)
- Auburn sounds (no issues)
- Vital (CLAP version quite unstable, VST3 much better)
- SurgeXT
- Tilr Gate12, Time12, etc. (to be tested more deeply, seem solid so far)
- BlepFX stuff (to be tested more deeply, seem solid so far)
- ChowDSP (to be tested more deeply, seem solid so far)
- GVST (works well)
- ZL (Eq, Compressor etc) (still in development, very promising, already usable)
- Airwindows consolidated (works well, a gold mine)

I *love* the fact that many new plugins and devs are ready with Linux Native stuff from the beginning.

And, I agree that there's never been a better time for working on music creation on Linux, and it's getting even better every day

- Mario