Yhea. I agree.
For me, and for Wikipedia, Linux is a family of OS. I think that’s probably the best way to speak about it, but that’s not my point. What I wanted to say is that when speaking about Linux, you can’t release a “Linux” version because you need pretty much one version by distros (not really I know), and that adds tons of work, problems and need for support (even if I know that Linux users really don’t need as much support as Win/Mac users hehe).
Ask Arturia Dev’s and Mac users what they went through support of Mac OS over the years…
Studios/users want a lightweight stable cost efficient platform that wont cost extra (OS License) for every terminal (PC)
Heck, Arturia could ever create its own Linux (Distro) just for their own software that’s portable if they wanted.
As gridsleep says the “future”
Wine Tip:
[Wine configuration]
[Graphics]
( fixes my drop down menu problems)
A Native Linux Driver would be a good start for cross-platform transition.
Other than that things seem to be running well under Wine. (so far)
Ubuntu User with Ubuntu Studio addon installed.
Audio using pipewire & wireplumber.
Bitwig as my DAW.
yabridge for windows plugins.
plugin directories have been:
/home/USER/.(.vst, .vst3, .clap, .lv2)
Very happy with all my native Linux plugins, most notably U-he’s plugins and Vital.
Most distro’s I see mentioned when it comes to linux music making, are Ubuntu and Arch, with Fedora sprinkled in here and there.
I have referred to the OS as Linux. Been told many times it’s technically GNU/Linux as Linux is the kernel only. I’m good with people referring to it as LInux.
Vital has a deb installer and all the other plugins have an installer.sh which I’ve never had an issue with.
Arturia support for Linux would be amazing.
Cheers
Peter
Just wanna add some interest, I’m on Fedora and while I’ve heard of users making it work via Wine I’m hesitant to pull the trigger on the whole collection in case an update breaks it (have had this happen with Kontakt).
Given CLAP works natively on Linux, and Arturia plugins don’t support CLAP yet, maybe Linux support can be attempted at the same time. I think that’s what u-he did and it worked out pretty well for them.
Thanks, hopefully we can get an update at some point!
i’am not a geeky user on linux and wine (bottles now!) is very complex for me to use…
i am going to have to borrow a computer friend to update to V?
really to bad!
c’est le moment pour arturia… super companie 
de s’ouvrir a la comunauté open source linux…nous sommes des clients!
merci
paul.
Have you tried yabridge? I used that and was able to install pigments, effects, and minifreak V without any issues.
Just make sure to have .vst .vst3 in your home directory. Read the instructions twice before trying it out.
Another yes please for Linux. One real advantage of Linux is how light and unbloated it is compared to Windows. The capacity to have a lean mean production setup, as compared to Windows. In truth, I only really boot into Windows to run my music software and video editing (since the Linux version of Da Vinci lacks h264). I’m limited to Pianoteq, U-He and Tracktion plugins in Reaper and Bitwig. So Diva and Repro do all my virtual analog stuff, and I’d love to run Pigments without having to reboot the machine into Windows.
My first experience of vsts in Linux was Pianoteq. Back on a first gen i5 laptop, with Ubuntu Studio of the time (circa 2012), I could easily get rock solid performance on a 64 sample buffer. Windows 7 on the same machine could only manage 256, which makes live playing unusable.
Now I would say that I wish the Linux people in the right places would tidy up the alsa/pulse/jack mess so that there is a single audio system akin to Macos’ CoreAudio that does both desktop and low latency audio out of the box.
Now I would say that I wish the Linux people in the right places would tidy up the alsa/pulse/jack mess so that there is a single audio system akin to Macos’ CoreAudio that does both desktop and low latency audio out of the box.
That’s what pipewire and wireplumber all all about. It’s default in Ubuntu 23.10 and thereafter. Most distros have already put it in.
You can run pigments and arturia software center in wine and use yabridge to link the VST/VST3. Works without issues for me. Go to the yabridge website and don’t use the default wine in ubuntu as it’s outdated.
What’s the latency like via yabridge versus natively on Windows or macOS?
You can try [ AV Linux ] It has a custom kernel for Latency performance.
Turn-key distro for music production. Latency performance depends on
how well you can remove / customize your system. from what i understand.
Have fun testing
It’s the same as native. I run at 64 or 128 samples and I don’t have any latency.
I just want to add my voice. We need analog lab at least native in Linux. The people you are trying to reach, the “sound explorers” are all out there fiddeling with Linux. Apparently you yourselves were at least once Linux nerds. You would have a captive market if you were the only manufacturer with heavy Linux support.
According to Sanjay C’s review of the AstroLab it’s running what is basically Analog Lab on Linux so maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Yes Jon_Vincent,
this is really a light at the end of a long tunnel.
I’ve been using linux since the 90’s and ugraded yesterday to Ubuntu 24.04 but I’ve always been skeptical about native musical apps for linux because of the narrow niche of linux users, Pianoteq being an exception.
I would be interested on the Astrolab linux implementation. But the Astrolab does not manage the Analog Lab gui.
+1 For Linux support. My machines run Fedora and MX but I would try any distro Arturia would decide to support. I guess my needs are simple: I just need to hook my Microfreak up to MCC
I bought a Keylab some time ago, just to get my hands on Analog Lab to try it out. Major kudos to Arturia support for digging up a replacement keybed that solved the ancient “high keys” problem on the OG Keylab! I loved the Keylab. It was a marvelous, marvelous piece of hardware, but after a year and a half of beating my head against Midi Control Center not quite running under Wine and Analog Lab not being able to communicate fully with the Keylab, I ended up selling it. If Arturia would get behind linux support and push, I’d probably buy another Keylab in a heartbeat. The 16 pads, the great keybed, the gobs of knobs and sliders - it was everything I needed in one package.I really loved that gadget but hated not having the software support to fully utilize it.
Arturia, Please… Give us a solution for the Midi Control Center [Linux support]
Under FreeBSD you can protect your source code. OR Flatpak for Linux, also protected
BUMP
I am using the minifreak V vst already on linux with PARTIAL functionality - namely the “Link to Minifreak” synchronization with hardware minifreak can’t work, real bummer. I’m using yabridge for anyone interested, follow the instructions there.
This is such an important functionality, because without it the minifreak can only ever be a music playing toy without much use in production.
So please!!
Native linux support that would enable this functionality (which currently doesn’t work due to the hacks used to run on linux) would be a game changer! Thank you!
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