Linux support for Toontrack products

[joabogers]

DAWs like Reaper and Ardour work on Linux just fine, but the Toontrack stack not supporting it fully breaks the experience. Using Wine I can get quite a long way with using EZ Drummer on Linux, but it’s less than ideal. Even though VST should be OS agnostic, it’s clear Toontrack products weren’t developed with Linux in mind. And that’s a shame, because nobody I know who’s into audio engineering willingly chooses Windows.

Please support Linux.

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[RiViT]

I second this sentiment. I’m facing the end of Windows 10 support next year and I’m switching to Linux. I’d love to take my Toontrack products with me rather than switch to another brand.

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Thanked by: Glenn Andersson, exl99, AncientDreamland and 1 other.

[geraldtuckermusic]

I agree 100%!!  As joabogers aptly stated, my DAW, Reaper, runs perfectly natively on Linux. Running the ToonTrack products via Wine is sometimes hit or miss. I’ve purchased every ToonTrack product except Superior Drummer, plus multiple expansion and MIDI packs, so I am a loyal customer. Just please help us Linux OS users by offering the products for Linux. I refuse to depend on Windows for my music production!! Who would?!

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Thanked by: Glenn Andersson, exl99 and AncientDreamland

[AncientDreamland]

I’m getting 60 and I started a new journey without being an IT professional.
Linux.

I’m fed up with Microsofts politics and their OS gets worse and worse.
No Win11 for me. No more Win10 from Oct 14th 25 on.
I got SD3 up and running on Mint Wilma and besides the drag and drop function it’s working with Reaper.
(Native Access is much more evil – still trying to install the libraries !)

Anyway… there will be more and more people in the future using Linux.
The Linux community grew from 3% to 4% within the last year.
Well thats not much, but the growth rate is significant and should be noticed by the big players in the business like Toontrack.
Unsupported customers are lost customers sooner or later.I love the quality of Toontrack products, but in the end there are others on the market that do support Linux.
So maybe one day…

All the best.

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[joabogers]

I have to say I find it quite disappointing to get no customer service reply after close to a month. Why have a forum called Requests & Feedback if there’s no feedback?

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Thanked by: Glenn Andersson

[John]

Hi,

Toontrack (almost) never reply to Request posts but always read them. The more users requesting something, the more likely it gets into the schedule of things but unless it is something already communicated scheduled for release, you will not get a reply.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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Thanked by: Petar Makaveev, Glenn Andersson and exl99

[exl99]

I would encourage you to really consider to Support Linux OS as well. Like some other here I’m a Reapper DAW user. And with all these TPM 2.0 restrictions to upgrade to Windows 11 it will be in some sort like you help us to run our hardware a bit more longer time. Instead to buy new gear. Some may also argue that it may help a bit the planet by reducing waste 🙂

Btw I really love EZdrummer! Hope I can still use it in the future !

• This post was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by exl99.

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[Nedim Kirlic]

I’m also switching from Windows to Linux and I’m trying to get my VST plugins to work in Linux, in Reaper. So far, the graphics of all my VST plugins, not just Toontrack’s, were messed up: only a couple of knobs show on a channel strip, while on EZDrummer, when I click on the kit nothing happens, but when I click diagonally to the left and up from the kit, that’s when all the different kit parts react. So that sh*t was broken, and I’m trying to do it again. However, right now I can’t authorize my plugins because of an unknown server problem…

[Jerryteacup]

Here’s another voice for the Linux support.

I’m one of those who’s getting tired of Microsofts sh… and trying to get into Linux. Linux Mint seems to be doing a good job, but I have trouble getting my Scarlett 18i8 1st Gen to work with it. I’ve succeeded with other distros but Linux Mint is being a pain in the ass about it. I don’t know if the desktop itself matters, but I’m using Xfce. Seems to be most customisable and I can also get rid of idiocies like disappearing scrollbars. Whoever came up with that belongs in the same hell with the guy who invented infinite scrolling.

As for Windows… Microsoft are confusing an operation system with collar and leash. It’s insane what ‘features’ they’re packing in it. Plus ads even if you pay good money for the licence. Just… what the hell, Microsoft?

I wonder what Windows 12 will be like. Microsoft have this funny way of screwing up one operation system and then getting it right on the next one. I skipped Vista and 8. But apparently it’s not gonna be that easy with 11…

[KEITH]

Yes please introduce support for Linux and give us all a chance to free ourselves from Windows. If one of my Daws ( Mixcraft, Cakewalk, Studio One ) will not work in Linux I can always go to Reaper for not a lot of money. But if Toontrack products cannot be used then what would be the point. I haven`t checked any rivals to EZ Drummer as yet as I have quite a bit invested in Toontrack and it would be hard to write it all off even if there is a workable alternative, but these pleas do seem to fall on deaf ears. It is so frustrating.

How about a definite answer, either you are looking at it, or forget it, definitely no Linux. At least we would know where we stand.

Linux support please, you know you want to.

[Jerryteacup]

I’ve been on this topic before, but I’ll just repeat my request here, in exhaustion, after sending the same message directly to Toontrack.

PLEASE make your stuff work on Linux!

[Jerryteacup]

Another thing is that, we’ll probably have to then buy the Linux version. VST doesn’t work on Linux natively so it’s something some Linux developer would have to do. It’s not unheard of and some efforts have been made, but for now we need Carla or Yabridge. Plus as I understand it, VST as a concept itself needs some sort of licencing… I don’t know. This stuff is so tiresome.

EDIT: You know, we really need to start a pestering campaign and start messaging all the manufacturers and software developers to please start doing the Linux thing. I just don’t know how to hell to machine any of this.

• This post was modified 3 weeks, 1 day ago by Jerryteacup.

[KEITH]

Thanks for that Jerry.

I was not aware of the VST issue, that could explain the reticence on Toontrack`s behalf. I suppose the fact that Reaper does not include any instruments  is partly the reason it is able to work so well in Linux. I am determined to leave Windows behind, one way or another. I am on 10 at the moment and will not move to 11, so it looks like I will have to leave Toontrack behind. I only have EZ Drummer, with half a dozen kits and a bit of Keys, so I will not be looking to expand into Bass or anything else as it seems it would be futile.

I suppose as long as it works on 10 I could just create a drum track and import it into Reaper/Linux as a midi file and forego all the in DAW editability.

I don`t know what to think really. It is all a bit frustrating and sad.

• This post was modified 2 weeks, 6 days ago by KEITH.

[Jerryteacup]

I’ve got half a dozen kits as well and, as far as I know, there really isn’t a viable alternative on Linux. The only thing that comes close but is only limited to one kit is MT Power DrumKit. That’ll be a somewhat easy transition. Impulse responses for guitars and all are, of course, universal.

Getting the hardware to run is another problem. We could use a virtual machine to run Windows for our recording purposes, but so far it appears that, USB devices don’t bridge to the virtual machine. So… we’re screwed there.

Here comes a rant.

Truth be told, Microsoft’s motive is to force as many people as possible under their, I don’t know, watchful eye or something with the Microsoft account. They have gone as far as to say ‘just buy new hardware’ to meet their TPM 2.0 requirement. That’s where we’re at. They’re that brazen about it.

Modern hardware can run Windows 11 performance-wise. The TPM 2.0 is entirely arbitrary. Moreover there’s the whole required encryptment which would be watched over by Microsoft. Online. Forgetting the little fact that the best security measure against any online threats is… being offline.

What gets me is the aggression. All of this SCREAMS to me their motive isn’t in any way pure. This is abuse of dominant market position, pure and simple. They’re doing this because they have a stranglehold of the market.

Another thing that gets me is that decisionmakers haven’t taken notice. There are grounds for an anti-trust case.

Yeah. End rant.

I seriously want shit to work with Linux…

[Petar Makaveev]

Hi. There goes another request for native Linux support. The Toontrack products are the only thing stopping me from diching MS forever. Please! Superior Drummer is essential for my ecosystem. I paid before and I plan to pay again for your products, however, Windows is intolerable, and I will move to Linux. I will find a workaround if I have to, but I strongly prefer to keep using Toontrack. So, dear developers, please consider at least a little update that will make the plugins run properly under Wine, if native suport is not an option.

[FarmerTedJoe]

I want to add my two cents as well. Linux is making more and more sense, and the only reason I have a Windows computer (my least used at that) is for EZDrummer. I will not be “upgrading” to 11 when Microsoft tries to force everyone’s hand, it would be nice to have Toontrack on board.

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