Good DAWS and VSTs for linux

WeebLife@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml – 88 points –

Hi everyone,

I'm getting fed up windows and want to switch my laptop to linux. My laptop also doesn't meet windows 11 standards so I figured nows a good time to switch. I don't do a whole lot on my laptop, but there are some programs that I do need to use. I have an E drum kit and right now I use reaper and Steven slate audio center to play and record my drums through my laptop. I looked at reaper, and I see linux options for download. But for Steven slate , I only see windows and Mac. This is pretty disappointing and so I figured I ask to see what would work for me.

I was going to go with Ubuntu, because it seems to be the most user friendly and has good support. I also use mullvad VPN on my laptop very frequently, which was another reason I chose Ubuntu.

Any help is appreciated. I'm willing to look at other distros too if there is one that better fits my needs.

EDIT: I have successfully migrated to linux mint and have reaper working with yabridge. Thanks, everyone, for your help and suggestions!

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I work in music and audio post, and everyone I work with would love to be able to use Reaper (or Logic, or Nuendo) instead of Pro Tools, if Pro Tools didn't have the post industry completely captured in the US.

Reaper is a world-class product, and the team could easily charge 10x as much for the pro licenses, and get it. Stick with Reaper.

There are alternative drum triggers for Linux, I'm sure. Even SPL makes a drum exchanger. There's got to be one out there.

VMR shouldn't be a problem to run, I just don't know what the install process would look like.

I'm pretty sure Airwindows plugs are Linux compatible, probably Audio Obsession too.

In any case, Reaper's stock plugins are awesome. My only real complaint about them is the EQ cramping in the hi-end, which is typical for stock plugins.

I would prefer to stick with reaper since I'm familiar with it and going off other comments, it seems that I can still use windows vsts in linux so I think that is the route I'm going to go

Hi, I ran into a problem with reaper taking over my audio driver and I'm not able to play YouTube, or any other music, while reaper is open. I didn't have this problem in windows because I had the aiso4all driver. But doing some searching, I'm not sure that driver will work on linux. Do you have any insight as to how to fix this?

While I don't have personal experience with this, I did find this from the bad website:

Install pipewire-jack and use JACK audio device in Reaper. Also, yes make sure that wireplumber is installed.

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