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Hi everyone,

I'm getting fed up windows and want to switch my laptop to linux. My laptop also doesn't meet windows 11 standards so I figured nows a good time to switch. I don't do a whole lot on my laptop, but there are some programs that I do need to use. I have an E drum kit and right now I use reaper and Steven slate audio center to play and record my drums through my laptop. I looked at reaper, and I see linux options for download. But for Steven slate , I only see windows and Mac. This is pretty disappointing and so I figured I ask to see what would work for me.

I was going to go with Ubuntu, because it seems to be the most user friendly and has good support. I also use mullvad VPN on my laptop very frequently, which was another reason I chose Ubuntu.

Any help is appreciated. I'm willing to look at other distros too if there is one that better fits my needs.

EDIT: I have successfully migrated to linux mint and have reaper working with yabridge. Thanks, everyone, for your help and suggestions!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you'll be fine.

do a dual boot install and play around with reaper. setup wine and see how it does with steven slate.

people are saying use ardour. i don't like it, but you might. my computer music needs are limited to midi and recording inputs, not performing actual synthesis and sampling "in the box".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have been using the "try ubuntu" option from my Bootable USB, I downloaded ardour but was disappointed that their demo was only 10 min... while I was setting up my e kit to make sure it worked, it kept bugging me every 10 min to pay for the software. That was pretty off-putting. I think I will keep using reaper.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it really reaps the llamas ass.

were you able to get the steven slate vsts running in some host?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not yet unfortunately, I'm still new to linux so it's still taking me longer to figure things out. I got reaper up and running really easy, but wine took a while to figure out. But I eventually got that working and was able to install Steven slate audio center and I git my drum kit to register in reaper. But I wasn't able to get Steven slate working, I think I'll have to use yabridge, which several other comments brought up. But I'm making progress!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Good luck. If Steven slate keeps fucking up your christmas it might be possible to duplicate what you use it for using a native effects package.