KVR Audio

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Fri Aug 08, 2025 5:23 pm

Here's a nice review of someone's experiences with using Linux for pro audio work. This shows how much the Linux world is ready for you developers to produce plugins and software for us.

https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advi ... tion-music

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Fri Aug 08, 2025 9:15 pm

Clickbait from 18 months ago, nothing new.

tl;dr: sure there are obstacles, but most basic things and some very mature DAWs just work.

mabian · Post by **mabian** » Fri Aug 08, 2025 9:30 pm

Fresh news: Toneboosters plugins in Native Linux VST3 (Public Beta).

https://www.toneboosters.com/beta.html

Quite good news for me...

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Fri Aug 08, 2025 11:09 pm

mabian wrote: Fri Aug 08, 2025 9:30 pm Fresh news: Toneboosters plugins in Native Linux VST3 (Public Beta).

https://www.toneboosters.com/beta.html

Quite good news for me...

Really!! That’s awesome!! I wrote to them about three weeks ago and asked, and they gave me a very definite No. It sounds like there was a change of heart. This is fantastic news!!!

Edit: I checked. It looks like I wrote them back in May, and they were more interested than memory served. I’m really excited about this! There is a lot that I’d love to buy from them!!

camsr · Post by **camsr** » Sun Aug 10, 2025 7:10 am

There is less drivers and less software, but it certainly is possible to use linux for media production. Just check the thread in the Computer and Setup forum.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Sun Aug 10, 2025 7:40 am

camsr wrote: Sun Aug 10, 2025 7:10 am Just check the thread in the Computer and Setup forum.

viewtopic.php?p=9115828#p9115828

NWSM · Post by **NWSM** » Wed Sep 03, 2025 3:44 pm

Simple Answer a CLEAR YES.

There are so many Applications outhere with you can make music, sounds and experiments.
- bitwig (daw)
- ardour (daw)
- reaper (daw)
- bespoke (daw-modular)

Sure you need at first get a Foot in the Door, choosing a Distribution, Install it, learn and Read a bit, optimize your Environment, testing around...let it run 4 weeks, then try install and importing your Audio Stuff that is known for working on Linux.

You will have less Plugins (but it grows) what can help you make music more consistent and finding your roots.

You have great modular Stuff like BeSpoke DAW, VCV, Cardinal with you can make anything additional to Vital, SurgeXT, and U-HE, HY Plugins you can buy or try or get some for free...there are many more.

BlitBit · Post by **BlitBit** » Sat Sep 13, 2025 8:22 am

I am using Bitwig on Linux and am quite happy with it. For me there are currently two main sources of potential future instability which make me a bit uneasy.

The first one is binary incompatibility with regards to low-level system libraries. Will I still be able to run Bitwig 5.x on the Linux distribution of my choice in the future (lets say in five years)?

The second one is relevant if one wants to continue using Windows software that was bought in the past. I am currently using Yabridge for that which currently works fine as long as my Wine version stays (and can stay) on version 9.21 (see here for more details). Due to the long dependency chain and ever changing interfaces and implementations one can be one bad update away from not being able to use all that software and investment.

But things have gotten a lot better in the last years IMO.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Sat Sep 13, 2025 9:53 am

> if one wants to continue using Windows software that was bought in the past

Whatever you do, there are no guarantees ever. That's life

umd · Post by **umd** » Thu Sep 25, 2025 10:04 am

Currently, Linux is great for music production, as long as you don't update often ( if it ain't broke, don't fix it ).

kaamos · Post by **kaamos** » Wed Apr 29, 2026 9:09 pm

Linux is underserved for professional audio. Not broken, underserved. The stack is there. REAPER runs well. The VST3 ecosystem is catching up. What's missing is developers who treat it as a first-class target instead of a stretch goal.
I'm building there by choice. Kaiku, a free FM synthesizer, ships for Linux first. Windows and macOS follow. The decision was deliberate: building a VST3 for Linux means understanding the stack at a depth the other platforms abstract away.

github.com/jmcgill-public/kaiku

Jos tyhjyyden kaiku kutsuu sinua — olet tervetullut.

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Thu Apr 30, 2026 1:45 am

Thank you, kaamos!!

xhunaudio · Post by **xhunaudio** » Fri Jun 05, 2026 7:10 pm

Getting a clean and high-end, truly professional Windows OS installation is possible still today, but it's getting really harder and harder and time-consuming (ReviOS).

I have a dream...

Since it's evident we are living in the time of barbarians, culturally speaking (with no offense for the real Barbarians) and Microsoft Corp. seems not able of stopping itself from putting all that tons of telemetry-related junk in Windows (and Apple is even worse), I really hope in an Open Source initiative (a really huge and solid project involving 1000s of devs) putting together Linux + Wine + etc. (ReactOS?) so we can finally have a free, professional (and easy to install and set up) OS based on Linux, but (extremely important) capable of carrying the whole heritage of Windows Softwares/DAWs/Plugins/etc. (from XP to contemporary 10/11 and further).

And say a final goodbye to Microsoft and Apple and their anti-computerscience behaviour.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Fri Jun 05, 2026 7:19 pm

xhunaudio wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 7:10 pm Microsoft Corp. seems not able of stopping itself from putting all that tons of telemetry-related junk in Windows (and Apple is even worse)

Public opinion does not agree with that sentiment:

Screenshot_20260605_211820_Mastodon.jpg

Seafire Mk2 · Post by **Seafire Mk2** » Fri Jun 05, 2026 7:28 pm

OS for the paranoid

Is Linux A Real Option For Music?