KVR Audio

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Thu Feb 26, 2026 2:15 am

audiojunkie wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 3:35 am If "time has proceeded on and it will no longer function" in Windows, then I just run it in WINE on Linux and continue to use the software as if nothing changed.

Having a studio on linux with wine is like turning your plugin collection into a very flexible powerful rompler, with daws and executables at the ready. The sometimes dreaded windows registry is stored in wine, so the OS distro has no interest in re-registration of what you paid for. So we can move it to a newer or older systems, as needs may be.

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Thu Feb 26, 2026 2:30 am

digitalboytn wrote: Tue Feb 24, 2026 11:55 pm snip... invest in the skills and the process of creating and producing music and NOT in the tools...

A solid skill set and a general workflow is transferrable and different tools can be substituted to achieve the overall objective....

Wisdom for the ages! There are also skills and process for producing wealth, that when saved, can be skimmed to supply new tools along the way. Extra practice, and extra work both come at a price, but it's a bargain with ongoing rewards.

Grizzellda · Post by **Grizzellda** » Thu Feb 26, 2026 7:43 am

IvyBirds wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 5:19 pm
Grizzellda wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 10:46 am I am all about developing skills. As others have said here, software can come & go, it is a tool.

I am totally grateful for the advent of the personal computer and will admit that candidly...

But also, everybody seems to have access to the same beatz, kind of a bummer....

Well, maybe how you look at it makes the story.
It's to simplistic to just say software is a tool learn skills because you can have all the skills in the world but if you don't have the tools to do a job you can't do it

You can be the best auto mechanic in the world, but if I bring my car to you to repair and the only tools you have is a fishing rod, a chef's knife, a copy of Kontact and a 50mm camera lens you won't be able to do anything

Agree, of course tools are very important, and probably even more so in our modern age, hi tech!

I have been posting lately that I feel all of this modern technology, and frankly the economy, which emerges from that, should be under a kind of spiritual direction, so the world remains somewhat balanced, or at least...

not eff'n crazy.

ATS · Post by **ATS** » Thu Feb 26, 2026 9:59 am

El°HYM wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 5:38 pm
martiu wrote: Sun May 18, 1975 11:19 pm u vil own nothin, u vil be happy, eat ze bug

from what I have seen on here a lot of people would be all for this

digitalboytn · Post by **digitalboytn** » Thu Feb 26, 2026 10:00 am

IvyBirds wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 5:19 pm It's to simplistic to just say software is a tool learn skills because you can have all the skills in the world but if you don't have the tools to do a job you can't do it

You can be the best auto mechanic in the world, but if I bring my car to you to repair and the only tools you have is a fishing rod, a chef's knife, a copy of Kontact and a 50mm camera lens you won't be able to do anything

There's hell of a lot you can do with a fishing rod, a chef's knife, a copy of Kontakt and a 50mm camera lens,but it will have FA to do with fixing the car

El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Sat Feb 28, 2026 9:01 am

ATS wrote: Thu Feb 26, 2026 9:59 am
El°HYM wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 5:38 pm
martiu wrote: Sun May 18, 1975 11:19 pm u vil own nothin, u vil be happy, eat ze bug

from what I have seen on here a lot of people would be all for this

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Sat Feb 28, 2026 10:23 am

Grizzellda wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 4:35 am That should include writing native apps for Linux.

Maybe on Fantasy Island, but wherever people live that buy food, housing, and transportation, there are work, wages, and ticking-time that control the markets. The hundreds of linux based musicians do not represent huge potential profits for many commercial software houses, and those willing to work on software for free still have real limits. Any business that does not profit, falls. Generous coders who give too much are in danger of burnout, or being short on positive comments and donations, becoming disgruntled. Fortunately, there are exceptions to this rule, and the native linux selection is pretty good and getting better.
A few commercial linux daws include many fine effects.

Ideology does produce sounds and compose music, people do. People need food, shelter and transportation before they create and record a tune. Among other things. Sorry for getting on such a ricketty old soapbox

BBFG# · Post by **BBFG#** » Sat Feb 28, 2026 5:28 pm

So you're saying that NI employees are too weak, poor and dumb to develop for three OSs?
Remember that Apple used to be considered "niche" once upon a time.

And it seems to me that Apple users are the most worried about companies coding for Linux. Even though signs across the world show that's where everyone is headed.

fedexnman · Post by **fedexnman** » Sat Feb 28, 2026 6:46 pm

I heard it isn't hard to make a Linux versions of VST plugins and software . Look Tracktion software , Bitwig , Renoise , U-he , Reaper , StudioOne all have there's .... ... Ableton on the Push standalone I heard is Linux too . Akai MPC is probably Linux ? What about Maschine+ standalone is that Linux ? I'd love to NOT run Windows , It's be great .

martinjuenke · Post by **martinjuenke** » Sat Feb 28, 2026 6:59 pm

BBFG# wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 5:28 pm And it seems to me that Apple users are the most worried about companies coding for Linux.

Sorry no, I'm an Apple user for decades and I don't care at all about Linux.

El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Sat Feb 28, 2026 7:04 pm

Very mac'ish attitude here.

HM · Post by HM » Sat Feb 28, 2026 7:21 pm

El°HYM wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 7:04 pm Very mac'ish attitude here.

I would not touch a Mac ,. even with gloves on

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Sat Feb 28, 2026 8:20 pm

I don't know why I'd care about some push to Linux. Is it supposed to mean something about development for Mac OS in general? I'm def not counting on seeing more than a blank assertion there. In fact it looks like pure anti-Mac partisan jive.

and don't mistake me for an Apple fan, I f**king hate Apple. But it's not as ugly or as PITA as Windows and the notion of Linux is dead boring to me. I guarantee you VSL isn't going to bother with that, so I think not caring suits me fine.

I got distracted, I wanted to say I saw something yesterday and the day before that is worrisome as regards NI: the "My Products" page which has always listed the serial numbers next to the products, incl. the not-registered ones, was blank there.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Sat Feb 28, 2026 8:28 pm

If I live so long as to see Sequoia OS with no more security updates I may be locking both music machines down as is* and only going online if absolutely unavoidable. so the future of NI is not all that pressing a situation to me, I'm not looking for Kontakt libraries anymore as it is (K8 required is out). It sort of looks like it won't continue to be all under one roof, but what do I know

*: Depends on the over-and-under of replacing all my OG Vienna Instrument acquisitions with Synchron Player versions. last supported OS now

BBFG# · Post by **BBFG#** » Sat Feb 28, 2026 9:00 pm

martinjuenke wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 6:59 pm
BBFG# wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 5:28 pm And it seems to me that Apple users are the most worried about companies coding for Linux.
Sorry no, I'm an Apple user for decades and I don't care at all about Linux.

You cared enough to comment that you don't care at all...
I could swear there's a short circuit that gets installed in the brain when Apple is adopted.

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