My main music machine is a Mac and my main everything else system is a Lenovo laptop with Pop!_OS. I would like to have the option to play with ideas on my Linux machine instead of having to switch systems when I feel inspired.

I already own the full version of Bitwig Studio butvI would love to throw some must have, Linux compatible, VST plugins into the mix.

Free sample sources would also be much appreciated.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      9 months ago

      How well does yabridge work? I own a metric fuckton of VST plugins.

      That said, I might keep my Linux system as a place to play with FOSS plugins, but I am still curious.

      • donuts@kbin.social
        7·
        9 months ago

        In my experience yabridge is fantastic. With a bit of initial setup, it’s the closest thing to a native experience that I’ve come across.

        You do control it with a CLI interface, so you need to be comfortable with that.

        You also need to have already installed the Windows VSTs manually using WINE or whatever, and so there’s a bit of a typical “how well does this work under wine” crapshoot and a bit of a learning curve there.

      • scharf_2x40@lemmy.world
        5·
        9 months ago

        Reasonable well.

        Getting plugins to install is often a big hurdle, if they are working, they work. However I think performance suffers alot. Didn’t try it on any bigger synths yet tho.

      • Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        I use it for spitfire labs, ott, and delay lama (very important) and all work great. There are occasional crashes when messing with parameters, but usually those don’t happen more then once. I haven’t noticed any performance issues.

      • HouseWolf@lemm.ee
        3·
        9 months ago

        Might depend on what DAW you use but I found it abit tedious to setup with Ardour, but after that it worked perfectly with the VSTs I was running on Windows, mainly Amplitube 5.

    • astraeus@programming.dev
      1·
      9 months ago

      I wonder if these LSP Plugins work for Reaper on a Mac or Windows, gonna try it out but I expect it will have issues

  • donuts@kbin.social
    111·
    9 months ago

    Modartt’s Pianoteq is a nice Linux native, physically modeled piano plugin.

  • nichtsowichtig@feddit.de
    9·
    9 months ago

    I love Vital (Vitalium) and Zyn-Fusion. Surge and Odin are great too. all of them are open source and work great with bitwig.

  • mvirts@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 months ago

    Surge XT, it’s LV2 but still awesome

    Also I’m a zynaddsubfx / yoshimi die hard. Not for everyone but it can do almost everything if you can live with 8bit automation parameters

      • Ephera@lemmy.ml
        2·
        9 months ago

        Uhoh, I’m using the LV2. Do you guys really run the VST through WINE? I was glad, I didn’t have to look into that…

        • mvirts@lemmy.world
          5·
          9 months ago

          You can run vsts natively on Linux these days… Not that I actually do 😹but surge may make me give it a shot, I didn’t know LV2 is unsupported

          • Ephera@lemmy.ml
            3·
            9 months ago

            Ah, I didn’t know more modern versions of the VST standard specified a Linux interface. I thought, they were still just basically EXEs with some metadata attached.

        • SolarPunker@slrpnk.net
          2·
          9 months ago

          VST is native and actually better for the CPU in the SurgeXT case. I also use it in LV2, and now I’ve all my projects that needs a conversion from that, maybe I could compile the 1.2 version from source; I don’t know but it’s annoying ¢_¢ [edit] Oh yeah, I’ve found it here so I can save my presets! https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/s/

      • Sorrowl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        9 months ago

        There’s also a CLAP version available, if you use a daw that supports CLAP (like REAPER (which you should totally use btw (it’s like the emacs of daws if emacs actually ran faster than everything else)))

  • noddy@beehaw.org
    2·
    9 months ago

    Surge XT is a must. Best FOSS synth there is IMO. 3 oscillators in 2 scenes. Filters, effects, all the LFOs and envelopes in the world, all the modulation, expression aftertouch, etc you need. A bunch of presets out of the box. Very flexible synth, though can be a bit learning curve to get going.

    Honorable mentions to Dexed (basically a software DX7), GeonKick (for synthesizing drums), and pianoteq (proprietary, but best there is in piano synth with native linux support).