My main music machine is a Mac and my main everything else system is a Lenovo laptop with Pop!_OS. I would like to have the option to play with ideas on my Linux machine instead of having to switch systems when I feel inspired.
I already own the full version of Bitwig Studio butvI would love to throw some must have, Linux compatible, VST plugins into the mix.
Free sample sources would also be much appreciated.
Vital is... well, vital. There's also a huge collection of basic effects for Linux here: https://lsp-plug.in/
I also use a lot of windows vsts though yabridge.
Modartt's Pianoteq is a nice Linux native, physically modeled piano plugin.
I love Vital (Vitalium) and Zyn-Fusion. Surge and Odin are great too. all of them are open source and work great with bitwig.
This looks cool
Surge XT, it's LV2 but still awesome
Also I'm a zynaddsubfx / yoshimi die hard. Not for everyone but it can do almost everything if you can live with 8bit automation parameters
The u-he synths are nice.
do plugins that run on wine count?
Just use Windows VSTs! This video was a game changer for me. Turned my vanilla Linux Mint into an audio production powerhouse with a single script. Bitwig, Reaper, Windows VSTs, low latency. Incedible!
Surge XT is a must. Best FOSS synth there is IMO. 3 oscillators in 2 scenes. Filters, effects, all the LFOs and envelopes in the world, all the modulation, expression aftertouch, etc you need. A bunch of presets out of the box. Very flexible synth, though can be a bit learning curve to get going.
Honorable mentions to Dexed (basically a software DX7), GeonKick (for synthesizing drums), and pianoteq (proprietary, but best there is in piano synth with native linux support).
https://acmt.co.uk has some high quality linux native mixing/mastering plugins.
A lot of cool ones already. I would like to throw Dexed in: https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/
FL Studio works fine in Linux if u install it thru Wine
all 39 comments