A few questions about music production on linux

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  • yabridge

    A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux

    I've been using Debian testing and Reaper, along with yabridge and a number of different open source and proprietary Windows and Linux plugins, and it's been working pretty great. I've got an Arturia KeyLab 88 MkII which has also been working brilliantly and I tried out an Alesis V49 without any troubles a few weeks ago to send a few to family and friends.

  • vital

    Spectral warping wavetable synth

    Vital (with the easiest totally open source version available from KXStudio's version and a nice free, preset pack)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • sfizz

    SFZ parser and synth c++ library, providing a JACK standalone client

    sfizz - invaluable sampler that supports some very popular formats like SFZ and Decent Sampler sample packs

  • Camomile

    An audio plugin with Pure Data embedded that allows to load and to control patches

    Camomile - fairly easy way to get Pure Data patches in plugin form; incredible rabbit hole to potentially fall down if you want total control

  • documentation

    Documentation for the FreePats project (by freepats)

    FreePats - massive collection of samples, a lot in SFZ format, but usually at least WAV/FLAC (which also work with sfizz)

  • fluidsynth

    Software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications

    Fluid Synth

  • Musical Artifacts

    Helping to catalog, preserve and free the artifacts you need to produce music.

    Incidentally, I'd never heard of virustotal so took a look and put the musical-artifacts.com URL in, and only 1 of 79 had not tagged it as clean. Yandex Safebrowsing were the ones who tagged it as malicious, stating "script for mining cryptocurrencies has been discovered on this site. When you visit such websites, your device may work slowly and heat up, power consumption may increase and the battery may drain faster." Sounds like a temporary hack to me. I'd personally download stuff from the site.

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