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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.

I checked it out and it is a more than I'm needing right now. I'm not an audio guy and bitwig is a little over whelming.

That sounds pretty awesome. But it's probably more than I'm needing right now. I will keep it in mind in case I want to do more later on

Oh wow, I didn't realize steam os was that different compared to other distros. Last night I was trying to install wine on ubuntu, and it wasn't listed in the app store. I thought this was weird, cuz it's in the discover store. So I had to manually install it. Not sure if it's because I'm still using the "try ubuntu" instead of the full installation. But that helps knowing that all flatpaks work with every distro.

Not yet unfortunately, I'm still new to linux so it's still taking me longer to figure things out. I got reaper up and running really easy, but wine took a while to figure out. But I eventually got that working and was able to install Steven slate audio center and I git my drum kit to register in reaper. But I wasn't able to get Steven slate working, I think I'll have to use yabridge, which several other comments brought up. But I'm making progress!

I have been using the "try ubuntu" option from my Bootable USB, I downloaded ardour but was disappointed that their demo was only 10 min... while I was setting up my e kit to make sure it worked, it kept bugging me every 10 min to pay for the software. That was pretty off-putting. I think I will keep using reaper.

Thanks for the info. I checked out ardour and it seems like a good product. Looks like I'll have to branch out more and see what my options for vsts are.

Thanks for the tip!

Oh I see what you're saying. I'm still getting used to linux. I have a steam deck and have been using the desktop mode quite a bit, so I'm familiar with the app store in there. But I'm still not used to it thinking about going there to install what I need. Thanks for the tip

I would prefer to stick with reaper since I'm familiar with it and going off other comments, it seems that I can still use windows vsts in linux so I think that is the route I'm going to go

Oh ok, that's good to know that I can use vsts on linux. And I'm just overall being more privacy conscientious lately.

That's really helpful. Thanks for the info. I will look into Ardour since I exclusively use my e kit. And thanks for the wiki page.