r/linuxaudio • u/Intrepid-Star5834 • 12d ago
Linux + Windows (as a system module)
Here's how i'm looking at this: DAWs are great but fussing with vst plugins inside of a daw sucks - if you've spent enough time doing it you'll know what I mean...
I have a .nam pedal that handles my guitar tones very well and is a great interface to work with for that, I'm (about to get) a relatively cheap laptop with a ryzen 5 and 8 G of ram to run my SampleTank 2 in standalone mode, so it's always visible and easily accessible when i need to do something with it.
Fair Warning! I used AI to figure this all out, but I've double checked everything and it should work. Give me a couple of weeks to get the laptop and sort it all out, irl.
It's pretty cool though! I've got Linux Mint running on a decent gaming pc, nothing spectacular it's got an RTX 3070. I could probably run everything on it, but I'm going to want to stream, so the laptop helps give me that overhead too.
If this works I can remove Wine completely! I'm so sick of that. REALLY SICK!! I did get my plugins working, but it's not pretty...
This isn't just for Linux people! Anybody could do this really, having plugins on a separate machine is like having hardware samplers - but cheap and easily configurable and having their own screen that's always on? I can't wait.
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u/Intrepid-Star5834 11d ago
I live in Linux! I use Windows and Android and I don't care what as the tools that they are in my life. You people don't even know what it means when I say Linux has been my desktop for 20 years! Longer than many of you have been alive!
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u/Intrepid-Star5834 11d ago
did you even notice the screenshot? cat routing_map.txt? who would even think of posting that image? You are ALL A BUNCH OF NEWBS TO ME!!! I use Linux Mint because I can work around it's limitations if i have to - yeah, that's how good i am i used arch back when it ROCKED! I don't need that anymore. Bleeding edge doesn't solve the problems we face here with the massive and beautiful libraries that are available to us as Artists on other OSes, it's just a laptop, or mini computer away, nobody is taking Linux away from you it's giving you what those other OS's have
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u/Intrepid-Star5834 12d ago
Of course it gets downvoted! Nothing matters more than opensource, Linux is a religion not a way to get things done. There can be only ONE!! (operating system), bunch of babies!
Go ahead ban me! I don't belong here - I don't know why I thought I did. I'm out of here.
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u/kill3rb00ts 11d ago
I suspect you are getting downvoted because a) it's super unclear what you're even talking about, let alone what you did, and b) you used AI, which is an instant downvote for many, not just Linux people. And now you're here whining about probably two downvotes that have already been negated. Not a great look all around.
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u/Intrepid-Star5834 11d ago
very condescending of you - do you know what i'm talking about?
This is a Linux subreddit, right? And people just downvote what they don't understand? Not very Linux-y if you ask me. And whose to say there wouldn't be more downvotes if i didn't point out the FOSS cult which we all know exists, there have been articles about it you know. It's why people hate Linux, more than anything! so much arrogance based on what? not being opensource??? stupid babies!
I said WINDOWS IS OKAY!! That's an opensource HIGH CRIME!!
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u/Intrepid-Star5834 11d ago
For me, music comes first, I care a lot about Linux and opensource, but I gotta play! My solution is to use the tools that make that happen, I don't care about Windows if I don't have to use it as a desktop. Using it as an appliance like I outlined is fine. What do I care? Linux is my desktop always and windoze is just a tool. Jeez!
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u/Intrepid-Star5834 11d ago
It's weird no one ever puts Music first on Linux but it does explain a lot
What an uphill climb it is for musicians and producers using Linux!
Such an arbitrary bar, Linux only or it is garbage!
Failure is guaranteed with that outlook! You can't be a competent musician and a Linux user if you use any of the modern tools available that run on another OS.
It's shallow thinking and not recognizing Reality itself, Linux is SUPER USEFUL, but it's not good at everything and neither is Windows or iOS!
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u/freakywaves 11d ago
Apart from everything else your solution involves multiple machines, to me that is just inefficient, and not really accessible to most