I have been teasing this a couple of days ago... 🫣 RV Audio Design today announced that Disseptor, an outstanding harmonics processor, is now available for #linuxaudio. 🥳 Make sure to check it out in White Sea Studio's #snakeoil video #review at youtu.be/ebCjnirg6qE or on their website at rvaudiodesign.com/. #plugin #harmonic #distortion PD: I keep nagging developers, and I'm really happy that more and more of them are willing to make their products available for #linux. 😊
@shanesemler There are a lot of positive developments in #linuxaudio. ☺️ What setup do you use, if I might ask? I use a desktop PC with a Ryzen 9 3900X and 64GB of memory, Manjaro Linux with the standard 6.13 kernel, PipeWire, an RME Fireface in CC mode and Bitwig Studio. With 256 samples at 96000 Hz my #latency is currently 3.6 ms. With 128 samples it is 2.1 ms. And 64 samples is good for 1.1 ms latency. Now, I don't know if these are amazing values, but it works very well for me. 🤓
A massive part of the problem is that there is no central place to look up this stuff. Answers, if there are any, are scattered across forums, Reddit, random Twitter posts (I refuse to click on any X link), and who knows where else. It's a hopeless mess, and I'm tired of it. I'd rather make no music than deal with this crap. I don't want to, but I'm seriously considering buying a used Mac Mini.
@shanesemler Interesting. My experience was completely the opposite. I chose Manjaro back then mainly because I liked the Arch Wiki so much as a really good resource for information. And in fact, I still look there most of the time when I want to know something. But at the end of the day, it has to be fun. I love my Linux journey and have had a great time with it so far. 😇
Arch wiki doesn't solve latency issues. And some "solutions" are so complicated, my brain just shuts off and says, "no, fuck that". It shouldn't be this difficult.
@graves501 Now I look like a liar, or an idiot. The latency is now workable. Anyway, I remember another problem I had, getting a VST drum machine working. It wouldn't give me the setup I needed. I'm not going to use Hydrogen, it has serious limitations and I don't like it. This is such a hassle.
@graves501 @shanesemler @klangverstromung Should the Ugritone stuff be added to linuxdaw.org/ then? I mean, does it work well on Linux? I don't know anything about it myself but would be happy to have someone give me the TL;DR on it. 🫣🤓
Well the drumkits do work, I haven't tested it unter heavy load though. They do have guitar and other sorts of plugins, but I haven't checked them out really.
@graves501 @klangverstromung I have picked up some of their cab emulations, but I don't like them. They tend to sound a bit mushy to me, but maybe that's accurate.
@graves501 @shanesemler @klangverstromung Interesting! There seems to have been an update from what they told us before. I hope so! 🙂 I guess I’ll watch and see what happens. 🙂
Dark Photon Studio
in reply to Amadeus Paulussen • • •Amadeus Paulussen
in reply to Dark Photon Studio • • •What setup do you use, if I might ask?
I use a desktop PC with a Ryzen 9 3900X and 64GB of memory, Manjaro Linux with the standard 6.13 kernel, PipeWire, an RME Fireface in CC mode and Bitwig Studio.
With 256 samples at 96000 Hz my #latency is currently 3.6 ms. With 128 samples it is 2.1 ms. And 64 samples is good for 1.1 ms latency.
Now, I don't know if these are amazing values, but it works very well for me. 🤓
Dark Photon Studio
in reply to Amadeus Paulussen • • •Amadeus Paulussen
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in reply to Amadeus Paulussen • • •Andrew Graves
in reply to Dark Photon Studio • • •@shanesemler
I don't know what you're doing in general, but from my experience Pipewire made everything so much easier.
Make sure you have pipewire and pipewire-jack installed and then start REAPER like this:
$ PIPEWIRE_LATENCY=128/48000 reaper
Here's my latency:
Dark Photon Studio
in reply to Andrew Graves • • •Amadeus Paulussen
in reply to Dark Photon Studio • • •And good luck to you @shanesemler!
Dark Photon Studio
in reply to Amadeus Paulussen • • •klangverstromung
in reply to Dark Photon Studio • • •@shanesemler
If you don't necessarily need a step sequencer, AVL Drumkits may be a solution for you:
bandshed.net/avldrumkits/
If you need something more sophisticated, Drum Gizmo might be useful, too:
drumgizmo.org/wiki/doku.php?id…
Or maybe you want to check out a drum kit as an SFZ instrument:
sfzinstruments.github.io/drums…
An additional source for free drum kits is this:
sfzinstruments.github.io/drums…
@amadeus @graves501
Drums - SFZ Instruments
sfzinstruments.github.ioDark Photon Studio
in reply to klangverstromung • • •Andrew Graves
in reply to Dark Photon Studio • • •@shanesemler @klangverstromung
Funnily enough I also use the Ugritone drumkits myself! They support Linux!
The Linux VST3 doesn't work for me, but the VST does! I put the Ugritone .so file into ~/.vst - make sure REAPER checks that path for plugins.
Then you should be able to use the plugin in REAPER, tell where the sound files live and you're good to go!
Amadeus Paulussen
in reply to Andrew Graves • • •Linux DAW
Linux DAWAndrew Graves
in reply to Amadeus Paulussen • • •@shanesemler @klangverstromung
Well the drumkits do work, I haven't tested it unter heavy load though. They do have guitar and other sorts of plugins, but I haven't checked them out really.
Amadeus Paulussen
in reply to Andrew Graves • • •Andrew Graves
in reply to Amadeus Paulussen • • •@shanesemler @klangverstromung
Great idea! I assume it takes a while until they respond. Maybe by now the support situation has gotten better though, who knows.
Amadeus Paulussen
in reply to Andrew Graves • • •Dark Photon Studio
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in reply to Dark Photon Studio • • •Ercanbrack
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in reply to Ercanbrack • • •@ercanbrack @shanesemler @klangverstromung
No, they got bought by another company (or something similar), so they will continue to exist.
Ercanbrack
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