Melda on Linux - Community reports

[jan-sandahl]

Anyone in audio moving towards Linux, I applaud! Feeling quite strongly about this.

I have my aim at exploring the Linux route in 2026 as soon as energy time etc allows for, with all the W11 crap going on. I'd like (love) to keep Melda, but... I not holding my breath in light of the responses I'm aware of so far. By any standards apart from purely financial ones - there is no other way. I wish to explore audio production for Linux a lot more. It might turn into a "cleanse".

Purifying every digital activity.

[sunthief01]

I spent my winter break preparing a dual boot with the eventual goal being full migration. Going with Fedora Kinoite for the immutable / Atomic versioning, just started this week.

So far Bitwig flatpak works like a charm. Performance with native plugins is really good. I definitely need to explore the latency tuning options because I think this already very snappy OS can definitely be improved for audio work.

Melda is one of my main goals to get running but I have to get yabridge going first and there isn't a ton of documentation on how to set it up on immutable distros. Robert vdh says it doesn't work with flatpak but I see reports to the contraty, so I'll report back here about how it goes with Melda over Wine and yabridge

[mabian]

I'm using Melda with Wine+Yabridge in Mint 22.2 and reaper native Linux.

No flatpak though, even though the wine prefix is "Bottled".

All works pretty smooth here.

I found that disabling GPU acceleration and multi core optios in Melda plugins helps both on stability and performance. But I guess you're mileage may vary...

[sunthief01]

Got my melda plugins up and running on Fedora Kinoite (immutable / atomic distro) using a distrobox running Ubuntu Studio with Bitwig, wine 9.21 and yabridge (thanks audiojunkie!). Ever since getting into GrapheneOS on my phone I've been really sold on containerized workflows.

Honestly I think melda works very smoothly on Linux. I was able to get some great tones going with TurboReverb, MPowerSynth, MSoundFactory etc. MMultiAnalyzer worked as expected with correct Bitwig and yabridge plugin group settings.

Only wrinkle is that popup windows in melda need to be viewed within wine's virtual desktop in my current config - they don't display as expected over top of the plugin gui., adding a click to switch to wine's virtual desktop to make your selections and a click to switch back to bitwug I'll keeping working and hopr I can find a way around this - I'll keep tinkering to try to overcome this

[Hexspa]

Slightly OT:

I got my first dedicated debian machine (T480). Being able to install multiple desktops and WMs on one computer is nuts, and you can do the same with kernels? If anyone belongs on linux native, it's Melda

[zuhizuhi]

Anyone having luck installing 17.08 on Linux via Wine? Starting from I think PluginManager 2.20 it doesn't open on Wine 9.21 (which seems to have been the best option so far). Even if I install PluginManager via Wine 11.7 (it does install) next EXE itself doesn't start - just nothing - in the terminal one may contemplate: zwloaddriver, winebth...

Thanks in advance!

[martin-meldaproduction]

Anyone having luck installing 17.08 on Linux via Wine? Starting from I think PluginManager 2.20 it doesn't open on Wine 9.21 (which seems to have been the best option so far). Even if I install PluginManager via Wine 11.7 (it does install) next EXE itself doesn't start - just nothing - in the terminal one may contemplate: zwloaddriver, winebth...

Thanks in advance!

Hello, which distro do you have? I recommend you to try redownload MPluginManager 02.21 from the web again, I did justed it in Wine 11 and latest Ubuntu and it worked fine for me.

[mabian]

I'm using Wine 9.0 "overriding" 11.x, Melda plugin manager updated to 2.21 correctly and 17.08 plugins are fully functional here.
Only error I get is a message at the end of the plugin manager install, probably trying to contact something using an embedded browser, and failing.

Other than that, smooth sailing here. Linux Mint 22.3. Melda are among the plugins working best under Wine.

[audiojunkie]

Anyone having luck installing 17.08 on Linux via Wine? Starting from I think PluginManager 2.20 it doesn't open on Wine 9.21 (which seems to have been the best option so far). Even if I install PluginManager via Wine 11.7 (it does install) next EXE itself doesn't start - just nothing - in the terminal one may contemplate: zwloaddriver, winebth...

Thanks in advance!

Hello, which distro do you have? I recommend you to try redownload MPluginManager 02.21 from the web again, I did justed it in Wine 11 and latest Ubuntu and it worked fine for me.

I love that about you guys! You may not support Linux officially, and you may not provide native Linux binaries (yet), but you guys actively try to help with Linux users using WINE. That's cool!

[zuhizuhi]

Anyone having luck installing 17.08 on Linux via Wine? Starting from I think PluginManager 2.20 it doesn't open on Wine 9.21 (which seems to have been the best option so far). Even if I install PluginManager via Wine 11.7 (it does install) next EXE itself doesn't start - just nothing - in the terminal one may contemplate: zwloaddriver, winebth...

Thanks in advance!

Hello, which distro do you have? I recommend you to try redownload MPluginManager 02.21 from the web again, I did justed it in Wine 11 and latest Ubuntu and it worked fine for me.

I'm on OpenSuse Tumbleweed. As I have said, I managed to install it via Wine 11, but next it doesn't start... just silently hangs. Sometimes after a long time a pop-up appears saying something like BAD DATABASE etc. (this popup is Melda-installer-themed)

[zuhizuhi]

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[martin-meldaproduction]

I'm using Wine 9.0 "overriding" 11.x, Melda plugin manager updated to 2.21 correctly and 17.08 plugins are fully functional here.
Only error I get is a message at the end of the plugin manager install, probably trying to contact something using an embedded browser, and failing.

Other than that, smooth sailing here. Linux Mint 22.3. Melda are among the plugins working best under Wine.

Yeah, there was an unharmfull error message under Wine at the end of installation, that says the ie4uinit.exe cannot be found. This is used to refresh desktop icon cache and of course not present in standard Wine installation, fixed, will be in next release.

[martin-meldaproduction]

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This is due to your network connection settings. You need to make sure, MPluginManager has working internet connection, not firewalled, proxy etc. Then the message disappears. In case you do not have internet connection, you have to use the offline install option.

[mabian]

I'm using Wine 9.0 "overriding" 11.x, Melda plugin manager updated to 2.21 correctly and 17.08 plugins are fully functional here.
Only error I get is a message at the end of the plugin manager install, probably trying to contact something using an embedded browser, and failing.

Other than that, smooth sailing here. Linux Mint 22.3. Melda are among the plugins working best under Wine.

Yeah, there was an unharmfull error message under Wine at the end of installation, that says the ie4uinit.exe cannot be found. This is used to refresh desktop icon cache and of course not present in standard Wine installation, fixed, will be in next release.

Very cool, thanks for Wine support!

- Mario

[audiojunkie]

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