I was watching people talk about how capable MIDI networking is and I was curious if anyone had considered using a distributed OS instead? If you had multiple prices of gear and you installed a distributed OS on each of them would that have any advantages to simply networking them with MIDI? I'm assuming since it's not been done, to my knowledge, it's not very beneficial but I was curious. Thanks in advance!

https://www.reasonstudios.com/reason-free

Reason is giving out free plugins, but they dont officially support linux, has anyone got any method to get them working smoothly ?

How well does it run via wine ?

https://yabridge.org/

The Yabridge github repo states that it is the only official website, so this must be fake.

Hello,

I've been using Linux for around 4 or 5 years now. I've hopped through most of the main distros, Debian, fedora, gentoo, arch, cachy, Ubuntu.... Right now I am using opensuse.

It works mostly but some random things are a bit annoying. I didn't have the best experience with Ubuntu and Nvidia, but I'm willing to try again since I think it was because of some mistakes I made.

The reason studio jumps out to me is knowing that someone is actively maintaining specific audio packages that I use often. That and Ubuntu seems to be the best supported distro alongside red hat for random software that supports Linux, oftentimes they ship a deb and an rpm tailored to rhel.

How has the experience been? Not a fan of reinstalling but having stuff preconfigured sounds like it would make it a breeze. Is it ok with Nvidia from your experience? I know a couple people online who actually know their stuff that seem to prefer it

I have a musical project with some of my friends. We mostly use Linux for recording. This song is a short one, you might wanna check it out.

The DAW used is Ardour, installed on Ubuntu. We added some keyboards too, using Yoshimi.

And the plugins used are only those available by default in Ardour (mostly ACE and LSP).

Idk what the genre is. Probably post-punk?

Check it out here: https://radioguerrero.bandcamp.com/track/viper

Thanks

https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2958

I have a Traktor Audio 4 DJ.

Unlike the Audio 8, and 6 and 10, this device lacks a switch for phono and line, and it also lacks `alsamixer` controls to switch them as well.

Any idea what I can do to make the switch happen?

The only solution I've seen is from the Traktor website, and it's to use their "control panel" software. I guess I'm hoping for a non-traktor software route.

https://support.native-instruments.com/support/solutions/articles/69000879435-traktor-how-to-switch-between-line-and-phono-or-mic-input-level-on-your-audio-interface

Feel free to share your thoughts.

This is the final revision prior to me applying it as the audio routing for Screenstereo. i think it works pretty well. i hope to see what yall think soon enough!
the V1.0.1 will not support wifi endpoints and usb but they are known and in process, i just need to finish them.
also this is inside a test sandbox not actual hardware.

On a lark, I told chatGPT that I wanted to get my Presonus 18|10 (USB 2.0 Version) to work under Linux.  It took three days, but it ran me through the driver development, and I now have it working under Linux, including support for the internal DSP Mixer.

It was a fascinating journey, but slow and tedious.  I was amazed at the creativity it showed, pulling arcane uses for grep, sed, and awk in order to examine the existing code.  When an edit was needed, it would create a python 'here doc' for me to paste and run.

It explained its 'thinking' process along the way.  I was almost convinced it was sentient.

At one point, I told it that cutting and pasting hundreds of commands was too tedious, and that it would be nice to have an executable that would let chatgpt have direct access to the file system.  A python 'agent' was born, and I finished the rest of
the work at freeway speeds.  The API it used was expensive though, so I started using the web interface again when I hit about $15.00 USD.

Chatgpt also packaged and published the driver on github for me.  It's here:

 https://github.com/tobiah/snd-usb-audio-s1810/

I'm maximally impressed by this nascent tool.  I'm excited and scared to see how
it develops.

I finally got my windows plugins working correctly with the latest versions of wine. I'm posting for others as well as myself for the future. All of these steps are necessary to get your GUI interfaces to redraw correctly. Huge shout out to rations for his working yabridge fork as well as his other projects. I recommend checking out namix and NAMp for a nam gateway alternatives.

Windows VSTs on Linux via VSTBridge + DXVK (Arch)

1. Install Wine Staging

```

sudo pacman -S wine-staging

```

2. Install VSTBridge

Download the latest release from SourceForge, extract, and install:

```

cd vstbridge-*/

./install.sh

```

3. Install DXVK

When yay lists providers, pick dxvk-bin (option 2):

```

yay -S dxvk

pick 2) dxvk-bin

```

4. Install Vulkan Drivers

Pick the pair matching your GPU (64-bit + 32-bit):

```

AMD

sudo pacman -S vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon

Intel

sudo pacman -S vulkan-intel lib32-vulkan-intel

```

5. WINEPREFIX — Critical Gotcha

VSTBridge auto-detects your Wine prefix only if WINEPREFIX is unset. If it's set globally, VSTBridge will use only that one prefix and ignore others.

Check if it's set:

```

echo $WINEPREFIX

```

If it prints anything (other than blank), unset it:

```

unset WINEPREFIX

```

To make it permanent, make sure there's no export WINEPREFIX=... line in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile.

Alternative: If you only ever use one prefix, you can set it globally — just know that VSTBridge won't see any other prefixes.

6. Install DXVK into Your Wine Prefix

You must run this for every prefix you plan to use with VSTBridge:

```

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine setup_dxvk install

```

If you have additional prefixes:

```

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-other setup_dxvk install

```

7. Add Plugin Folders & Sync

Point VSTBridge at your Windows VST directories (inside the prefix), then sync:

```

vstbridgectl add "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/VST3"

vstbridgectl add "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins"

vstbridgectl sync

```

Then rescan plugins in your DAW. Or just use vstbridgectl GUI application which was isntalled to manage the paths and scans. Much easier.

8. Verify DXVK Is Active (optional)

```

DXVK_HUD=1 vstbridgectl sync

```

A small overlay in the corner of any plugin window will show the DXVK version if it's intercepting the D3D calls.

Note: VSTBridge already handles the newer Wine embedding — no need to downgrade wine-staging to 9.21.

I doubt it really affects anything noticeable, but more curious than anything.

I'm seeking a music/media player that has the ability to also read track BPM speeds, either via plugins or some built-in feature.

I DJ, and while I do use Mixxx, having to "drag and drop" and delete tracks from Mixxx's database is a bit too much cumbersome work for me.

I generally like to use VLC and Strawberry.
I'm double checking Quod Libet's plugins to see if they have any features like this. They have a "tap BPM", which is alright. I would have preferred something that analyzes BPM for you. But, it does work, and it even saves BPMs for you. Not sure if it's saved as metadata or not...

Otherwise, I use Metronome package to manually "tap" BPMs, just to see their speed.

But if anyone has any referrals, please let me know!

I know SteelSeries GG gets a lot of hate for being bloated, but its ClearCast AI noise suppression in Sonar has basically been doing all the heavy lifting for my mic setup on Windows, and it's my one hiccup to porting my daily experience to Linux.

For context: my mic naturally has this high-pitched electrical whine. Sonar cuts it out completely on Windows, even while I’m actively speaking.

I have tried setting up EasyEffects, but ran into two big issues: The noise reduction filter cuts out the whine when I'm silent, but the second I start talking, it immediately bleeds through underneath my voice. Messing with other filters either made my voice awfully muffled, or didn't fix the whine at all. Half the time I take my headphones off, leave them on the desk (using just the mic), and I have my output come through my desk speakers. Sonar somehow never picked up the speaker sound. With EasyEffects, it starts picking up the speakers immediately, creating a terrible echo/reverb loop.

Is there a specific plugin chain or model in EasyEffects that actually handles echo cancellation and can suppress the whine properly? Or perhaps a different tool that does this better.

I really don't want to sound like I'm glazing Sonar, yes it has its downsides. For me, it has been a set-and-forget process on Windows. I'm just hoping I can replicate at least 90% of that experience on Linux without having to constantly worry about my audio. (I don't own a SteelSeries headset, so none of the SteelSeries-optimised applications work for me)

Here's how to do all that magical stuff; to have a sustainable, stable, high-performance/low-latency audio production setup.

I'm looking for a solution to my MIDI jitter woes. I'm well aware this will require buying a new bit of kit, but I'm hesitant to make any purchases when I can't be certain they'll play nicely with Wine. Are any of you controlling hardware with a Windows DAW? What does your clock situation look like?

For reference, I have both FL Studio & Ableton Live 9, though I would be okay with a solution that only works in one of them.

Hi r/linuxaudio 👋

I’ve just released DrumCloud JS v0.26, a free and open-source granular sample instrument written entirely as a REAPER JSFX.

I develop and use it on Linux, and because it is native JSFX there is no Wine, yabridge, VST wrapper or external plugin framework involved. If you run REAPER on Linux, it runs directly inside REAPER.

DrumCloud started as a fairly small granular experiment, but it has grown quite a lot through testing and feedback from REAPER/Linux users.

v0.26 focuses mainly on more accurate tuning of imported samples and some groundwork for better user-sample handling.

NEW IN v0.26

• Sample Fine Tune

-100 to +100 cents

Default is 0 cents, so existing v0.25 behavior is preserved.

• Improved Detect Root

DrumCloud can analyze a loaded sample and estimate:

- note name

- MIDI root note

- cents offset

- confidence

For example:

F#3

MIDI 54

-23 cents

91% confidence

DrumCloud can then apply either:

- Root only

- Root + tuning correction

Detection itself does NOT automatically change the sound.

Low-confidence results are rejected and do not overwrite your manual Root MIDI Note or Fine Tune settings.

• More precise pitch analysis

Root detection uses multiple regions of the sample rather than relying on one tiny section.

The current detector uses normalized mean-subtracted autocorrelation with fractional/parabolic peak refinement.

A result is only considered READY when all analyzed regions agree closely enough and the correlation passes the confidence threshold.

This means noise, chords, very short sounds or material with strongly changing pitch may intentionally be rejected instead of DrumCloud blindly changing the tuning.

Root analysis is currently synchronous, so on long/complex samples it can briefly pause REAPER. I recommend running Detect Root while playback is stopped.

• User Samples groundwork

v0.26 reserves:

Data/DrumCloud/User Samples/

for personal sample collections.

A full Factory/User browser and custom-folder browser is planned for the future GUI overhaul.

Because of the way the native JSFX file selector works, nested User Samples folders are not yet presented as a proper browser.

For now, WAV files you want directly available in DrumCloud can be placed in:

Data/DrumCloud/

while keeping your organized originals under User Samples if desired.

• Cleaner development installation

I also fixed the development workflow so testing a local Git clone no longer requires copying the entire repository into REAPER/Effects.

Doing that previously caused REAPER to recursively discover another copy of DrumCloud and display a duplicate JSFX entry.

There is now a portable Python development installer which updates the real installed effect instead.

CURRENT DRUMCLOUD FEATURES

• Granular sample instrument controlled with MIDI

• 8-voice polyphonic MIDI playback

• shared 32-grain pool

• velocity-sensitive playback

• waveform display

• click/drag sample positioning

• Sample Start / End range

• Grain Size

• Density

• Density Spread

• Position Spread

• Stereo Spread

• Pitch Spread

• per-grain Attack and Release

• animated grain markers

• per-grain playback direction:

- Forward

- Backward

- Alternate

- Random

• sample movement / scanning:

- Forward

- Backward

- Ping Pong

- Random Jump

- Random Walk

• manual Root MIDI Note

• factory Auto Root mapping for suitable tonal factory samples

• Detect Root for imported samples

• Sample Fine Tune ±100 cents

• stereo Room reverb

• Hall cloud reverb

• octave-up Shimmer

• filtered Stereo delay

• Ping Pong delay

• transparent output peak protection

FACTORY CONTENT

The ReaPack package includes 130 factory samples created by REVERBERA.

All factory samples are CC0 1.0.

It also includes 46 DrumCloud factory presets.

The sample source/license documentation is installed together with the package.

The DrumCloud source itself is MIT licensed.

INSTALLATION WITH REAPACK

In REAPER:

Extensions → ReaPack → Import repositories

Paste:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Chmod666music/DrumCloud-ReaPack/main/index.xml

Then synchronize ReaPack and install:

DrumCloud JS

After installation, add:

JS: DrumCloud JS

to a track and send it MIDI.

IMPORTANT – FACTORY PRESETS

There is currently one additional step required for the 46 factory presets:

Actions → Show action list

Search for:

Install DrumCloud Factory Presets

Run it once, then close/reopen DrumCloud JS.

If an existing DrumCloud preset bank is found, the installer creates a timestamped backup before installing the factory bank.

GITHUB

https://github.com/Chmod666music/DrumCloud-ReaPack

DEMO

https://youtu.be/-9T49CBlMso

REAPER FORUM DISCUSSION / TESTING

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=310880

A few bugs in the earlier versions were found by people actually testing it in real projects, especially around polyphony and grain boundaries, and those reports have been extremely useful.

One particularly nasty intermittent boundary/grain-start issue was fixed in v0.24.2, and the later releases have kept those safety checks intact.

At this point I’m seeing more people actually using DrumCloud rather than just bug-testing it, which is really nice to see. :)

NEXT / ROADMAP

The next larger area I want to work on is the GUI.

DrumCloud is starting to outgrow the classic vertical JSFX slider interface, so I’m looking at building a more instrument-like interface with:

• proper knobs and controls

• dedicated GRAIN / MOTION / PITCH / SPACE / DELAY sections

• improved waveform interaction

• draggable sample range handles

• better grain visualization

• Factory/User sample browsing

• compact voice/grain/root status

• possibly using the open-source ReaKit JSFX GUI library for the control widgets

Also planned:

• per-voice filter

• filter envelope

• more detailed per-grain envelope shaping

I’m deliberately trying not to turn each release into a giant rewrite. Stability and keeping old presets/projects working is more important to me than adding everything at once.

Linux testing and feedback are very welcome – especially different REAPER versions/distros, unusual samples for Detect Root, preset compatibility and CPU behavior.

Thanks to everyone who has tested it and sent suggestions so far. A surprising amount of DrumCloud’s current feature set came directly from user feedback. 🖤

#LinuxAudio #REAPER #JSFX #GranularSynthesis #OpenSource

*Video language is Greek

*The thumbnail was partially created using AI technology

✏️To help all the Linux fans who want to get into music production—or are already producing—I've decided to translate all my videos on my YouTube channel into English, this process take time. Soon as possible all my videos in ENGLISH. so everyone can watch and understand them! YouTube’s automated translations aren't always accurate, so from now on, you can simply enable English subtitles. Happy music making, everyone!

In this video, I present the Decent Sampler plugin! A beautiful and completely free plugin that lets you add stunning instruments to your music—and in fact, most of them are totally free! Decent Sampler is without a doubt a must-have plugin for every producer!

VIDEO LINK:

https://youtu.be/jtsktjSkioU?si=Xz--Q0T3geza-B3S

trailer
tutorial
website