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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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!
What do you mean by this? Binaries do not contain source code …
For plugins and many other software it’ll be less about the distro and more important that you statically link dependencies and use a glibc that is low enough to cover the most users.
Many vendors will build on ie. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS which uses glibc 2.31
You could probably get away with Ubuntu 22.0.4 (glibc 2.35) as 20.04 will be EOL next year.
Older glibc builds will run on newer versions, but not the other way around.
So the trick is to find a good “lowest common denominator” for compatibility.
In these time go to ubuntu LTS it’s not good idea. Now we have Flatpacks. One package with all references and all distributions available.
Basically where we have lot of cross platform solutions like Qt, C# (yes it works under Linux!), Python etc. and much more.