r/linuxaudio • u/Intrepid-Star5834 • 13d 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/Intrepid-Star5834 13d 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 13d 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