[Virgil Breeden]

With MacOS Catalina breaking audio software for multiple applications and people leaving Windows in droves because of their user tracking and forced-update missteps, now is the perfect time to roll out that not-officially-supported Beta version of EZ-Dummer, EZ-Keys, or Superior Drummer.

[Virgil Breeden]

@sohar: I’ve managed to get EZDrummer 2, SD3 (crossgrade), EZMix, and EZKeys to run on my Pop_OS build using Wine and Carla. I run them through Reaper and everything is working so far. The one catch is I can’t install the latest updates of EZDrummer because the updater doesn’t play nice with the file system (and claims EZDrummer is not installed). It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s at least passable until the good folks at Toontrack acknowledge that there is a customer base in the linux community with cash-in-hand.

[Virgil Breeden]

I would also like to toss a request for Linux support in the hat. It was recently uncovered that Microsoft will be migrating Windows 10 to a Desktop as a Service (DAAS) model, and I can only imagine that will not play well with low latency audio requirements. Add to that the problems we have been seeing with Apple’s latest Macbook Pros (kernel panics caused by the T2 chip, thermal throttling, etc), coupled with their high prices and incapability of data recovery in the event of a hardware failure (also because of the T2 chip), and Linux starts to look like the most viable audio production environment.

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