Please! Please consider supporting Linux natively!

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Achieving low latency audio on Linux with Windows plugins requires tools such as WINE, yabridge, LinVST3, Carla, or WineASIO. Most of these plugins and tools are frequently broken and rendered useless for months, to years, at a time.

For example, yabridge is currently broken. LinVST3 hasn't had much support lately. Carla likewise. WineASIO must be built to use and often doesn't work. All of these problems make Linux users prefer native Linux plugins for their work.

There are so many plugins that I would love to use natively on Linux! Please! Please consider providing Linux native plugins--at the very least for Connector. With this single plugin and a tool like Patchwork, I could probably get everything else to work properly. You could even mark it as purely experimental. I'm absolutely sure there would be others like me that would want to buy it!

I have patchwork, which is a Windows app that comes with a standalone version. With it, I could run lots of other Windows plugins within it. However, to get low latency with WINE, WineASIO is required to be able to connect it to Pipewire-JACK. Otherwise, it must be run through a bridge software such as yabridge (which is broken), or LinVST3, or Carla.

If Connector had a native version, I could run the Windows version of Patchwork, bypass the whole problem of using yabridge, LinVST3, Carla, or WineASIO, and just use a network connection straight to my Linux DAW.

Please, please will you compile a native version of connector for Linux! :)
Vendor‑Dependent Copy Protection: Customers lose. Pirates win.:mad:
(Also: I'm Accused of lying about Linux—it boots, runs my pro audio workflow, stays stable, updates--though yearly dismissed as “niche”. Yet I'm the deluded one.)
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Yes that's definitely something I'd like to do as some point... However every time I check it out to decide which GUI toolkit I should use as a basis for system widgets, it has changed again and it's even messier than the previous time. With GTK going nuts, Wayland support vs legacy X11 (that is still necessary for plug-ins) etc, it's really a mess!

It's good news however that WineASIO is back!

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Here's something that might help out with your transition, if you are interested:

https://linuxaudio.dev/
Vendor‑Dependent Copy Protection: Customers lose. Pirates win.:mad:
(Also: I'm Accused of lying about Linux—it boots, runs my pro audio workflow, stays stable, updates--though yearly dismissed as “niche”. Yet I'm the deluded one.)
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Linux for Patchwork and being able to load windows plugins would makes you trillionaires…

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