My name is Amadeus Paulussen and I have been producing music professionally for more than 30 years.
My journey started with Windows, continued with macOS for 25 years, and was restarted with Linux about 5 years ago.
Which brings me to the reason for this post:
I wish Baby Audio would support Linux!
With PipeWire as a robust and flexible audio server, plugin providers such as Audio Damage, DDMF, AudioThing, discoDSP, Kazrog, Sinevibes, TAL Software, Toneboosters, u-he, discoDSP and many more open source and proprietary vendors (see e.g. https://linuxdaw.org/) already offering their products for Linux, and DAWs like Ardour, Bitwig Studio, Reaper, Studio One, and Live (Live runs as a native Linux app on Push 3!), Linux has become an attractive platform for music production.
I would be happy to provide Linux debugging support for free, as I have done countless times for various other vendors.
PD: I started an initiative called “Linux Audio Plugin Development” with resources for developers and the stated goal to get more native plugins on Linux. See: https://linuxaudio.dev/
Are there other musicians out there who’d appreciate Linux binaries of Baby Audio’s plugins?
I would definitely appreciate my Baby Audio plugs being possible to use on my Linux machines as more and more of my machines are Linux machines, replacing both PC’s and Macs.
I just signed up to post here. I tried Comeback Kid in Windows and was quite impressed, but I only use Linux for audio production.
I would certainly be interested in using Baby Audio plugins in Linux if they were available. I have purchased several Linux plugins which were previously Win/Mac only, notably Auburn Sounds ones which work excellently in Linux.
As mentioned in OP, I believe rebuilding for different OS platforms is now easier than in the past.
Yes, I most likely would get several (I’m thinking three). I’ve bought plugins from all the well-established plugin developers when they’ve started supporting Linux. Not just because I want “to support to devs”, but they’ve just been some of the best ones available (u-he being the most obvious example).
I think one factor that’s been holding back music production on Linux so far has been the low number of “plugins that pros use” being available, but now that quite a few well-established developers are offering at least beta versions it seems to be changing (don’t get me wrong, I like the indie stuff too, but people want to be sure the plugins have been used on pop records too). I don’t know if other people posting comments here would agree, but I would be fine with “the beta versions for Linux are not provided full support” type of a deal too, as long as they would run reasonably well (I think most stuff released by other companies in that matter has worked without problems for me).
I’m already a Denise customer for the Win stuff, btw. Usually when I pay more, I want the Linux version too (the Win stuff is for “post-production”, as tracking on Linux is perfectly fine these days).
I would be fine with “the beta versions for Linux are not provided full support” thing. Some other vendors do that, and it has almost never been a problem for me.
I’m planning moving from Mac to Linux in a while, and I would looove to be able to use Baby Audio plugins on Linux. I use several of the plugins already and would be bummed out if I couldn’t use them anymore.
I’ve fully switched to Linux more than 1 years ago, and now I use Bitwig to produce, and the biggest drawback of using Linux for audio production is a lack of Native Plugins support, and now that Linux is growing in market share, there is also more demand for Native Linux Plugins.
So I would really be happy to see Baby Audio plugins get native Linux support, I would become a customer.
Another Linux audio and musician here. I do quite a bit of electronic/synth music, including a couple of feature film soundtracks (L'ultimo sole della notte (2017) - IMDb and one upcoming).
So like many other users I’d like to see Linux native versions of your plugins. I’m especially interested in the reverb/ delay ones, as I feel we’re a bit lacking on Linux
The more activity this thread gets, the easier it is for us to allocate resources into something like this.