I’ve recently moved my entire music production studio from Windows/macOS to Linux. Fortunately I’ve been using REAPER for years, and that works flawlessly on Linux.
I’ve been purchasing a whole new set of plugins for my setup from vendors that offer Linux support. I’ve spent hundreds of dollars during the recent holiday sales rebuilding my arsenal for Linux.
I would happily buy more BabyAudio plugins if you folks offered Linux support. I’ve been eyeing Humanoid for years now. Would love to buy a Linux copy. And I’d love to bring my copy of Transit over to Linux as well.
But yes… paying customer here. Want to spend money with vendors who offer Linux builds.
I put Linux on an old iMac that can’t upgrade to the newest version of macOS, and want to use it as a secondary music production setup. The only obstacle is MOST of my plugins don’t run natively on Linux, and going through a compatibility layer (Wine) on older hardware will probably not be good for performance.
I’ve resigned to this being an experimental side project with major limitations for now, but some day I want to fully switch to Linux because the big tech companies (including Apple and Microsoft) all do unethical and user-unfriendly things worth boycotting over.
Please be part of the solution, of making Linux a more viable alternative for serious musicians. If you do, I promise to buy more of your plugins.
Signed up just to add to this thread. I’d love native Linux versions of my BA plugins and would absolutely upgrade to the whole collection if you offered them. Thank you!
adding my name to the linux support wish list!
i love baby audio’s plugins and have been missing them since moving away from windows. totally understand the technical and support challenges but i also think native linux support could create a lot of goodwill and positive buzz in a very dedicated user community.
Signing up to add to the list. Thou it’s still not perfect, desktop Linux is more and more approaching a point where the regular musician could install and use it. With VST3 recently going open source and also CLAP, this is a great time to deploy natively on Linux. Thanks you!
+1!
I’ve been using Linux for multimedia production for almost 10 years and was excited to know about Tekno and that it is a collab with Jatin Chowdhury - ChowDSP is already on Linux. Would love to be able to run it natively on my setup as I’m crazy for drum machines
And yet another Linux producer here who would like to see Babyaudio plugins on Linux as well
Also more and more other plugin developers also starting to provide Linux builds or at least some Linux betas.
Since Babyaudio plugins are based on JUCE (at least I know about BA-1) there are chances that Linux builds should be possible. Also I think that there are a lot of users here who could make beta testing the plugins. A great opportunity!
I was pretty up to date on Baby Audio plugins until Tekno but buying windows plugins that are built on JUCE8 is a waste of money and the array of Linux plugins has exploded.
I don’t update my Baby Audio plugins.
Linux instrument plugins are fewer, especially once you stray outside of synth emulations. I’d appreciate a Linux version of Atoms. The windows version eats CPU so I rarely use it. I’d probably buy Tekno and maybe Grainferno (I tend to use the Bitwig sampler so I’d test a demo first to see what I’m gaining) if there was Linux support.
These days I find myself using less and less bridged plugins because the array of Linux plugins is enough. In my current session, I have two windows instrument plugins. Other than that everything is native. Even 6 months ago I couldn’t have done that. I expect in another 6 months I’ll be 100% native linux or maybe linux native plus fabfilter.
Specifically, I’d love it if Baby Audio supported Linux because I like the feel of your plugins. They work for my mind and you’re always producing interesting things that aren’t clones of hardware and aren’t replicated by other developers.
If you do choose to support Linux, pick an old build system. If you build for the latest version of Ubuntu, your plugins won’t work on older systems and a lot of people, myself included, appreciate stability and so tend to be on those kinds of systems. I’m on Debian stable (Trixie) but I wish I was still on the previous stable, it worked better with pipewire. The way it works (simplified) is that if you build against an older version of libc, it will work with a newer version but if you build with a newer version it won’t work on the older version and the more libraries you link against the bigger chance an API breaking version upgrade will have happened.
Targeting older versions can also have a downside. For example, DaVinci Resolv targets a 10 year old Red Hat clone so some of the linked libraries don’t exist on newer systems (I still use it on Debian Trixie, there are workarounds). Some developers provide a dynamically linked version and a static version. That said u-he link to loads of system libraries in their synths and I’ve never had an issue (even with the UI drawing, Amadeus). I assume they test broadly.
