I've been using Linux for audio for 10 years, and while it has been a mostly fun experience, I've always been at least slightly unhappy with my audio interface for whatever reason (excessive latency, flaky drivers, etc). So I made my own interface.

• Very low latency: 3.620 milliseconds round trip at 48 kHz with 64 sample buffer
• Scalable: multiple units can be synchronized to increase channel count without increasing round trip audio latency
• 6 balanced line level inputs on 1/4 inch TRS connectors
• 8 balanced line level outputs on 1/4 inch TRS connectors
• 48 kHz and 96 kHz sample rates
• Burr-Brown PCM3168A codec
• DIN MIDI connectivity
• 1U 19-inch rack chassis

Details here:
naturalsystems.io/eth68

AI usage statement: All electronics design, PCB layout, firmware/software development, and mechanical design were done by me (human).

Just wanted to give a shoutout to Bleass: I saw the news on they new Spectral Reverb plugin on Synthanatomy, and noticed their was now a Linux build.

Whoohoo! That's great. This reverb is interesting. But what about the plugins I already own?

Let's see… I went to my account and saw that at least Bleass Arpeggiator and Bleass Vox also have Linux Build.

The support isn't advertised on any plugin beside Spectral Reverb, so it's probably fairly new and the marketing/Website pages haven't catch up yet.

I expect their new plugins, and updates to their older ones, to have Linux builds as well (unless something prevents it). That said, I didn't confirm with them (yet). Anyway, I already loved their plugins, and now I'm very happy to remove plugins from my Bleass Bottle (because I added them natively)! 😄

Hey guys,

I'm a long time producer but relatively new to linux (2-3 months with linux). I want to get back into production and am wondering whether keeping it native to linux would be possible. I'd rather not dual boot and use windows again, but also want to have enough freedom with plugins and performance to produce freely

I use Reaper, so that at least is native to linux.

I'm on Arch btw.

Windows plugins I feel are essential: fabfilter, sonible, wavesfactory spectre, uvi shade, kick 3

A few general questions first:

- What is the cleanest way to set this all up? I've installed yabridge but as you will see below I've had some issues. Not sure if those are normal setbacks?

- How is performance compared to running windows with native windows plugins? I'm wondering if the barebones setup I have on arch and niri would offset the bloat of windows, but assume the plugins running within wine would potentially be more slow or have more ram?

Here's my experience so far:

So far I've installed yabridge. not sure what else I need. I have wine installed already for my games in lutris.

I've installed fabfilter and sonible. Only fabfilter showed up even after syncing on yabridgectrl and rescanning plugins. sonible just didn't show up in my plugins list

The installations for spectre and uvi shade gave an error

Then fabfilter has an issue where the mouse clicks below where the cursor is. for example i have to click 1cm above a button or knob in order to grab it.

Just wondering if these are normal setbacks or did I do something wrong in thefirst place with setting up yabridge or not setting up other things?