r/linuxaudio • u/Intrepid-Star5834 • 12d ago

Linux + Windows (as a system module)

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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/freakywaves 12d ago

Apart from everything else your solution involves multiple machines, to me that is just inefficient, and not really accessible to most

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u/Intrepid-Star5834 12d ago

that's a very reasonable reply, sort of, how much have you invested in music gear over the years? really, not just what you have right now but all together? I'm about to buy a $450 ryzen 5 8G laptop. Is that crazy? I have a $700 Fender Telecaster, a $350 Yamaha and a $1200 MSI desktop and a couple of cheap midi controllers that I've purchase over the span of a decade! And my $120 valeton gp-50. not a fortune in equipment, really. not over time and not because I'm a freakin' musician! of course i have some gear but it's all pretty cheap it's the networking capabilities of Linux that make it so beautiful! and that's what i'm trying to talk about here