The linux DAW thread

[glokraw]

Just checked, and Calf Monosynth is working on my slightly older AVLinux, that has the needed GTK-2 libs, for it's gui. This has 3 tabs for controls, and easy to get old-skool synth sounds ready for Rakarrack or Guitarix or whatever other effects

Calf Monosynth.jpg

[dan_flash]

Sample playback is an important gap to fill in linux. Many of the top windows products are troublesome in wine for newcomers, so getting another solid sfz tool always helps. Combined with Decentsampler, linuxsampler, sfizz, the modeling tools, and whatever else is being used, things keep getting better. Someone should try Bidule in a recent wine that has the video libs and dot-nets installed, it might work
Cheers

Renoise Redux? Speedrum is a great drum sampler. Reasamplomatic if you're using Reaper.

But Redux is great for everything.

[stanlea]

Sample playback is an important gap to fill in linux. Many of the top windows products are troublesome in wine for newcomers, so getting another solid sfz tool always helps. Combined with Decentsampler, linuxsampler, sfizz, the modeling tools, and whatever else is being used, things keep getting better. Someone should try Bidule in a recent wine that has the video libs and dot-nets installed, it might work
Cheers

Renoise Redux? Speedrum is a great drum sampler. Reasamplomatic if you're using Reaper.

But Redux is great for everything.

Redux is good, but AFAIK it does not have disk streaming

[glokraw]

Guitarix dev released Neural amp loader Ratatouille 0.9.4.lv2 plugin. It can host any 2 of neural, aidaX or json files, and blend the outputs, as well as blending two differeing IR files.
Details at

https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=27812

Ratatouille.png

Good times for guitarists

[mjolnir]

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[glokraw]

The pic has the preset browser open. I installed in standard win vst3 folder/subfolders for luck,
ran yabridgectl sync, launched Reaper, and there she is. The sound is U-he territory, only has a few presets so far,
and the gui is big...a row of tabs is on the bottom of the gui...nice controls for making/modding sounds

viewtopic.php?t=618204

The synth website opens with a young lady with lip gloss and headphones, scroll down to download the synth.
Presets are a separate download.

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[glokraw]

The Omnisphere dev released the free Crystal synth ages ago, with a five tabbed interface, three of which are 'voices' where waveforms for the oscillators can be selected, including their soundfonts at the link below, (copy them and or your favorites to:

your-path-to-VstPlugins/Crystal/CrystalSoundFonts.

I can't vouch for compatibilty with the diverse realm of sounfonts. In the oscillator panels, click the triangle in the 'type' widget, and a menu opens with options to open Synthesized, Sampled, and Sound fonts menus.
In the upper left panel below the logo, there is a button to turn on/off the 12 voice poly mode

Green Oak's 20 meg soundfont pack for importing sounds:

https://www.greenoak.com/crystal/dl/soundfontdl.html

Crystal-gui.jpg

Download Crystal from:

https://www.greenoak.com/crystal/dnld2.html

a 2020 vintage review

The filter panel in each oscillator tab has a button for Env On/Off to enable filter controls, envelopes can have from 4 to 9 control points

There are tons of options and controls, including randomize in the Utility drop-down menu, and a Patches panel with breed, father, mother, and mutation controls for experimenting. Putting a limiter plugin on the track is always lucky with such things.
etc etc

[havran]

The Omnisphere dev released the free Crystal synth ages ago

Cool! I had no idea about that connection.

[havran]

Meanwhile, recently I've been having difficulties getting some new distro releases to install or even open up their live sessions from my Ventoy USB stick, even with Ventoy updated. Guess I need to buy a bunch of USB sticks from Ebay and just have one ISO per stick (using Rufus or Balena Etcher).

[glokraw]

Vavra is a Waldorf Micro Q softsynth plugin, with rom and sundries graciously provided by Waldorf at the 5 buttons at the link below

https://waldorfmusic.com/legacy-micro-q-series/

The synth gui is provided by 'The Usual Suspects' who have developed Osirus and other instruments.

I was able to install the LV2 version and lots of free sounds.

When you first run Vavra, if the Waldorf firmware is not found, you'll get a prompt to browse for it,
it's called mq_2_23.mid ...make sure the zip is unarchived where directed:

/home/you/.local/share/The Usual Suspects/roms

I found some collections of free sounds here:

https://www.audiobombs.com/?category=Sy ... 75=Synth.Q

As for downloaded sounds, atop the gui click the Patches button, then in the panel that opens, right-click 'Data Sources', and you can browse to the unarchived sound folders, select them, and wait for the synth to process them, it took several painful minutes on my old computer, but when finished, there were lots of categorized sounds.

Vavra has various versions at this site, vst, clap lv2, rpm, deb etc :

https://dsp56300.com/builds/vavra/beta/

You may want/need to play with the default install paths, but I think synth lovers will find your efforts rewarding. I think there are skins out there, but I'm just playing new sounds for now.

Vavra-sounds.jpg

Vavra-some-knobs.jpg

Cheers

[mjolnir]

not that it matters, but what desktop environment(s) are you guys using?

i'm using XFCE and MATE (both, as separate sessions) and I'm happy with this.

[uOpt]

not that it matters, but what desktop environment(s) are you guys using?

i'm using XFCE and MATE (both, as separate sessions) and I'm happy with this.

fvwm2 when I can, KDE otherwise.

XFCE I don't like anymore.

[audiojunkie]

I'm using Gnome.

[farlukar]

KDE, it's the worst desktop environment, except for all the others.

[mjolnir]

I never heard of fvwm, I'll look into that.

KDE does seem to be seriously popular lately. I just can't get into the flat icon themes, and all the letter K's.
But I noticed that MATE is losing support over the years. They no longer have any devs supporting it actively at Manjaro anymore, I guess.
But I like the integrated launcher menu ("Applications Places System").