Reaper is available for Linux. I can’t vouch for it as I’ve not used it on there, but I’ve used it on Mac and it’s great. Generally well regarded and is pretty inexpensive.
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Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I had just hit the button on a recording session last night, and a fucking full page “ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THE EOL OF WINDOWS 10!!” (paraphrased) popped up over my DAW. Yeah, I’m prepared alright Microsoft. I’ve got a flash drive with Linux ready to install if you keep pulling shit like this. It’s going to suck because a lot of audio software developers are garbage with Linux support, but if Windows is just as garbage, there’s no reason not to migrate.
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Reaper is my DAW of choice, actually. I haven’t tried it in Linux, though.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re actually trying to force people onto 11 now? That windows partition that never gets booted sounds really close to becoming more storage for a windows-free life
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Yeah, it’s pretty stupid my machine isn’t capable of running 11. It’s a fairly modern machine. AMD 5600X, RTX 3080. 32gb of RAM. I guess it might just be some bios setting I’d need to change to make it compatible, but I have heard precisely nothing about 11 that makes me want to actually do that. Hopefully Microsoft will follow their trend and 12 will actually be good. I doubt it, though.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wow, yeah it’s pretty ridiculous that machine wouldn’t be able to run any os
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Mine went bye-bye a while ago.
I initially installed linux on an additional smaller ssd. I recently set out to swap that setup around, so that windows gets to be on the smaller drive.
Except that after moving Endeavour to the big ssd… I just didn’t bother with setting up windows again. Haven’t needed it yet.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For audio specifically you might find FreeBSD easier to set up. As a DAW, not as a desktop in general.
ALSA+PulseAudio\Pipewire+JACK are kinda messy compared to newpcm+JACK .
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Well, the PC isn’t used only as a DAW, so I might still need Linux as opposed to FreeBSD. I’ve been running some form of Linux for a long time, now. I’ve never tried FreeBSD. Don’t even know what it is, actually.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, the PC isn’t used only as a DAW, so I might still need Linux as opposed to FreeBSD. I’ve been running some form of Linux for a long time, now.
If you’re of the “advanced user” kind, you might find it easier to use than Linux - cleaner, much better documentation, ports collection, ZFS without pain or any combination of GEOM classes with UFS (which has snapshots here btw). It’s a different OS, but a very pleasant one. Same X (or Wayland), same applications, etc.
One can also use Linux emulation with CentOS 7 or Rocky Linux 9 environment for Linux binaries.
Don’t even know what it is, actually.
It’s a descendant of BSD, and things like Ultrix and SunOS 4 were BSD, so one can say it’s the most commonly used thing of what feels like Unix today (after Linux).
OK, I think this reads like sales text.
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Haha! No, I understand. I rave about something I like, too, and then immediately feel like a salesperson or something. I’m not a power user exactly, but I can usually figure things out pretty quickly and have no trouble typing commands into a terminal and slinging a little code. I’ll have to look into what kind of audio people are doing in Linux and see where it takes me.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Go DAWless. Buy a Synthstrom Deluge for example. Still need a DAW for recording and mastering though :/ I wish there was Ableton for Linux. “-if you keep pulling shit like this” I can tell you without a doubt they are just going to intensify shit like this instead of stopping. I’m thinking of switching my main pc to Linux and use my old win10 pc disconnected for DAW. No viruses and hackers when there’s no internet. No Microsoft ads either.
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I’ve got an Oxi One and go “DAWless” occasionally, but I find it very limiting compared to what can be done in a DAW. I just have to hope Reaper works well in Linux. MIDI routing and what-not is pretty fickle with some of my hardware, now. (Not to mention some software that doesn’t work at all in Linux, like Korg’s dinosaurific software used to edit NTS-3 settings and patches.) It’s a bit terrifying to think what’s going to happen with an entirely new OS.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t get me started on Korg software 🤦
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Haha! I was not prepared. I got an NTS-3 recently, and Korg’s own software wouldn’t recognize it if it wasn’t in the first ten MIDI devices in Windows. I had to delete MIDI devices until it got low enough on the list. The 10-MIDI device limit hasn’t been a thing for, uhh, decades? I was planning on coding some LogueSDK, but the initial experience has killed almost all desire I have to do that anymore.
KuzhinierSileon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If I could make a suggestion, try already swapping to FOSS while ok windows to make the transition to linux easier on yourself. That is what I did, and it did wonders to help me become better acclimated to Linux.
You could also see if you can run DAW on a VM in Linux or see if your software is supported with WINE. That way you could potentially just run the windows application in Linux without a VM.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You don’t want to run a DAW in wine or VM. Also, I’m familiar with Linux environment, I just can’t live without Directory Opus (mainly) which is a big reason for not switching my main OS away from windows. Also, I’ve had loads of issues working with my NAS from Linux. In Windows network drives are just visible, in Linux not. Getting access has been a major pain, mostly I haven’t been able to get it running with my RasPi. Every time I try a tutorial online I do every step exactly as shown but the result is always different and I get errors no one else ever had (unable to find a solution).
mrvictory1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You may be interested in Wine compatibility of DOpus appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applica…
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
DOpus is one thing I can’t really understand why is not ported yet. It comes from Amiga anyway, I understand they might have done a lot of OS-dependent things since moving to Windows, but it should be doable, no?