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As for Windows plugins with no native Linux version, there are ways to use VSTs over Wine. Check out Yabridge project. There’s no guarantee that 100% of plugins will work, but many do pretty well. It requires some additional setup, but once it’s done, you don’t have to think about it much, just call yabridgectl when you add new plugins to sync them (it creates stub library that is seen as Linux native, but it wraps Windows plugin using Wine)
Reaper is perfectly fine choice if you’re already familiar with it, but here are some other you may want to look at:
FOSS Options:
Commercial options:
I checked out ardour and I was able to get it to register my drum kit, but they kept pestering me to pay for the program every 10 min which was frustrating. Bitwig is a little more than I need at the moment. I'm not creating music, I just need drum triggers and basic drum recording. I was able to get reaper to work and pick up my kit, but I still need to try yabridge to get vsts to trigger.
Wow, what OS you used and where did you take your binaries from? It’s free and open source, but their official builds (distributed through their official website) are paid. I’m using Arch official repo package and it asked me for a donation on first boot, but I could just select to never bother me with it again. You can build Ardour freely on any OS from source, but Linux distros are also free to provide their own packages and most of em do. There’s also Flatpak Ardour build, but your plugins then also must be installed from Flatpak, Wine must be from Flatpak etc., doable but not the most convenient
I was using ubuntu and I got the program from their main site. I saw they offered monthly subscriptions but I just chose the demo. On their site, it says the demo goes silent after 10 min.. I searched the app store in ubuntu and didn't see it so that's why I went to the website. That's cool you can build it from source though. I think I'll just stick with reaper now however.
There is Ubuntu package it seems, so it’s a matter of
sudo apt install ardour