Fake bands and artificial songs are taking over YouTube and Spotify
AI-generated songs have made their way onto streaming services and it’s not just ambient or electronic music: fake bands, be they rock, salsa, or jazz, are also abundant
Send in armed UN troops to protect aid convoys or risk ‘dystopia’, says expert
UN rapporteur calls for move as food deliveries are attacked and starvation becomes a weapon of war in Gaza and Sudan
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‘I don’t want my boy to be positive’: pregnant women face sky-high viral loads as cuts hit HIV care in Africa
As the withdrawal of US funding disrupts treatment and halts crucial research in South Africa, clinics fear the resurgence of mother-to-child transmission of the virus
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Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’
She finds the whole idea absurd. To Prof Marci Shore, the notion that the Guardian, or anyone else, should want to interview her about the future of the US is ridiculous. She’s an academic specialising in the history and culture of eastern Europe and describes herself as a “Slavicist”, yet here she is, suddenly besieged by international journalists keen to ask about the country in which she insists she has no expertise: her own. “It’s kind of baffling,” she says.In fact, the explanation is simple enough. Last month, Shore, together with her husband and fellow scholar of European history, Timothy Snyder, and the academic Jason Stanley, made news around the world when they announced that they were moving from Yale University in the US to the University of Toronto in Canada. It was not the move itself so much as their motive that garnered attention. As the headline of a short video op-ed the trio made for the New York Times put it, “We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the US”.
Starkly, Shore invoked the ultimate warning from history. “The lesson of 1933 is: you get out sooner rather than later.” She seemed to be saying that what had happened then, in Germany, could happen now, in Donald Trump’s America – and that anyone tempted to accuse her of hyperbole or alarmism was making a mistake. “My colleagues and friends, they were walking around and saying, ‘We have checks and balances. So let’s inhale, checks and balances, exhale, checks and balances.’ I thought, my God, we’re like people on the Titanic saying, ‘Our ship can’t sink. We’ve got the best ship. We’ve got the strongest ship. We’ve got the biggest ship.’ And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’
Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises societyJonathan Freedland (The Guardian)
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WhatsApp is officially getting ads
The end of an ad-free WhatsApp.
WhatsApp is officially getting ads
WhatsApp is getting ads, as Meta has announced that it will now allow businesses to promote their products and services through its status feature.Emma Roth (The Verge)
Novo Nordisk Loses Canadian Patent Protection For Blockbuster Diabetes Drug Over Unpaid $450 Fee
Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk forfeited patent protection for semaglutide -- the active ingredient in blockbuster diabetes and weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy -- in Canada after failing to pay a $450 maintenance fee in 2019. The company had paid maintenance fees through 2018 but requested a refund for the 2017 fee, apparently seeking more time to decide whether to continue protecting the patent.
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Music Production and Software Synthesizers/VST's under Linux
Hey everyone,
When I was previously on windows I had a lot of fun doing music production. My workflow took place in FL studio and used a lot of software synthesizers (VST files mainly).
After my switch to Linux, I am 95% better off. Everything is great except I have to rediscover a music workflow.
It's quite painful because I had licenses to some very expensive software synth libraries (The Arturia V collection for example). I have done some reading and have found that while it is possible to get FL studio working in Linux, it still doesn't have the greatest of results.
As far as that goes, I am not terribly concerned - Reaper, Bitwig, and other Linux DAW's exist and I am fine using those instead even if it means purchasing a license for the paid ones.
But the real problem is the software centers/Licenses/installations for my software synths. It would be such a shame and a waste of money if I couldn't get these working, but I don't know much about dealing with this on Linux, so I am appealing to your collective knowledge.
I wanted to ask if anyone has successfully installed the Arturia V collection on Linux for use in a DAW, and if so, what you think I should know about it. I thought I read somewhere about some software these could be emulated/installed through (not wine), but I'm just really open to hearing about recommended options for something like this if anyone knows.
Otherwise, I wanted to ask my musical Linux friends here what they have for VST's and what their workflow is on Linux, because it's always fun to develop new work flows.
Thanks
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WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
Meta is expanding its ads business on WhatsApp using your data from Instagram and Facebooknoyb.eu
WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this.
WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
Meta is expanding its ads business on WhatsApp using your data from Instagram and Facebooknoyb.eu
WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this.
WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
Meta is expanding its ads business on WhatsApp using your data from Instagram and Facebooknoyb.eu
WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
Meta is expanding its ads business on WhatsApp using your data from Instagram and Facebooknoyb.eu
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Scooter - An interactive search and replace for the terminal.
I've found this to be pretty useful when needing to do recursive / multi-file search and replace. Also has bindings to work within terminal text editors like vim and helix.
Uses rust and ripgrep under the hood for speed.
GitHub - thomasschafer/scooter: Interactive find and replace in the terminal
Interactive find and replace in the terminal. Contribute to thomasschafer/scooter development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Interesting, I appreciate the explanation.
It's crazy how much a single node instance can max out my huge desktop CPU, so I can imagine.
WhatsApp to get channel subscriptions, promoted channels, and ads in Status
Takeaways
- We’re introducing channel subscriptions, promoted channels and ads in Status in the WhatsApp Updates tab to help you find channels and products you’re interested in.
- The growing popularity of the Updates tab makes this the right place for these experiences, in a way that doesn’t interrupt your chats.
- Nothing changes about people’s personal chats, which remain end-to-end encrypted and are not used for ads.
Helping You Find More Channels and Businesses on WhatsApp
We're introducing channel subscriptions, promoted channels and ads in Status to WhatsApp's Updates tab.Meta Newsroom (Meta)
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sala dei libri inaugurata online con già pochi tomi, ma ufficialmente libreria digitale senza dei topi
Nel mentre che, come al solito, sclero medio-fortissimamente, dato che non riesco neanche per idea a mettere in ordine la mia libreria fisica (ma questo è un argomento per un diverso post, più incazzato), in questo ultimo paio di giorni mi è saltata in mente l’idea di perlomeno mettere in ordine quella digitale, di mia […]
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sala dei libri inaugurata online con già pochi tomi, ma ufficialmente libreria digitale senza dei topi
Nel mentre che, come al solito, sclero medio-fortissimamente, dato che non riesco neanche per idea a mettere in ordine la mia libreria fisica (ma questo è un argomento per un diverso post, più incazzato), in questo ultimo paio di giorni mi è saltata in mente l’idea di perlomeno mettere in ordine quella digitale, di mia libreria… O meglio, piuttosto costruirla ufficialmente, visto che francamente il termine “libreria” non è il più adatto per la mia condizione pregressa in tal senso (che è ovvero formata di file sparsi in giro tra archiviazione cloud, torrent scaricati e non, disco del PC quasi pieno, e roba ancora diversa con di mezzo Kindle e tablet). 🤥Con buona pace di chi è contro l’illimitata condivisione libera dell’informazione (contro la “dittatura del dominio pubblico“), quindi, ho semplicemente scelto di creare un nuovo sito dalle implicazioni teoriche come sempre squisitamente discutibili, in cui manterrò una collezione più o meno curata di quelli che — un po’ perché mi faceva ridere, ma un po’ perché è tecnicamente una descrizione più accurata — in realtà non chiamo libri, bensì tomi, ossia volumi di cose… letteratura, saggistica, manga, manuali, PDF colorati; in generale roba intrigante che è bene preservare ordinatamente. 🤗
Quindi, prendendo semplicemente ispirazione dalla già per mano mia esistente Sala Museo Games (a partire dal generatore di sito statico, che anche in questo caso è stato Jekyll, dopo aver perso per l’ennesima volta tempo a cercare invano soluzioni alternative più flessibili ma non troppo), ho messo su il sito tomistico-topastico più epico che io abbia mai visto, TOMOSTASH: https://gamingshitposting.github.io/TomoStash/!!! (Si, è sul namespace di GamingShitposting perché mi seccava creare un’organizzazione GitHub separata; e poi, così fa ancora più ridere.) 🐭
A parte il solito gusto della collezione di dati pubblica, per cui come tutti sanno io ho per ottime ragioni un’ossessione (fosse anche solo il fatto che, stranamente, tendo sempre a perdere i dati che tengo privati nel mio disordine generale, mentre pubblicando sul web in qualche modo non perdo mai cose dentro una discarica di bit), questo sito mi sarà utile anche per eventuali recensioni future di mie letture stellari, dove potrò semplicemente linkare alla pagina di un dato tomo per l’acquisto da fonti ufficiali, download dei file digitali gratuiti da me accuratamente archiviati e conservati, o addirittura lettura in browser di diversi formati!!! 😇Queste fiturs sono ovviamente già lì, sul mio bel sito de’ tomi, ma a lungo termine ci sarebbero anche ancora ulteriori miglioramenti possibili che… spero verranno concretizzati, ma purtroppo Octt Del Breve Futuro è completamente imprevedibile anche per me (Octt Dell’Attuale Presente), quindi meglio non fare spoiler. E, per quanto ci sia il rischio che questo nuovo progetto secondario lastricato di buone intenzioni finisca come la Sala Museo Games, ossia bello e funzionante ma con una libreria stagnante, perché non ci sarà altra gente che vorrà contribuire su GitHub con manodopera dataentryante… spero se ne possa fare buon uso. 🚀
Vabbè… a parte sistemare la home del sito — che in foto qui è come dovrebbe essere, mentre chi lo va a vedere subito ora scopre che c’è dello scombinamento con l’allineamento della griglia, ops — e riempire la libreria con cadenza continua e qualità alta — che è la cosa più difficile, perché per i tomi che già si trovano su Internet non è facile procurarsi e valutare il file migliore possibile disponibile, ma è qualcosa di importante per una raccolta che si prefigge l’evitare che le menti esplodano navigando — alcune delle tecniche che mi invento qui sopra potrebbero essere utili anche per migliorare la Sala Museo Games, quindi… se andrà bene, non solo non avrò perso tempo, ma ne avrò guadagnato?! Boh! 😝
#archive #archivio #books #library #libreria #libri #sito #tomes #tomi #TomoStash #website
GitHub - GamingShitposting/TomoStash: Pineapple-Certfied Online Digital Tomes Library
Pineapple-Certfied Online Digital Tomes Library. Contribute to GamingShitposting/TomoStash development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone
Your next phone could run on Trump Mobile
Donald Trump has filed applications to trademark “Trump” and “T1” for mobile phones, accessories, and services, suggesting he plans to launch his own network.Dominic Preston (The Verge)
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Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction
Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction
Concerns about transfer of genetic data to new company may now be moot.Financial Times (Ars Technica)
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Palestinians say Israeli troops fire on Gazans trying to reach GHF aid hub, with 34 reportedly killed
Palestinians say Israeli troops fire on Gazans trying to reach GHF aid hub, with 34 reportedly killed
Palestinians say Israeli forces opened fire on people trying to access a U.S.-backed group's aid distribution hub in Gaza, in the deadliest of such incidents reported to date.CBS News
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A Biden official says Israel committed war crimes. Who else will come forward
Politicians lie, and the people around them do too. When it’s convenient – when the whole world is pulsing with revulsion, for example – they begin to reveal flavors of the truth.
The Biden administration lied more than most, its public-facing members particularly. Its policy in Palestine was to embrace the Israelis in a “bear hug” – to smother them with love. And there’s thin cover for a genocide beyond lies.
In the interview, the former spokesman shared his personal view that it is “without a doubt true that Israel has committed war crimes”. Asked if that had been true when he was employed by the government, he suggested that lying is just part of the job: “You are a spokesperson for the president, the administration, and you espouse the positions of the administration. And when you’re not in the administration, you can just give your own opinions.”
Miller isn’t alone. The Biden-era spokespeople for the genocide included the White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the deputy state department spokesperson Vedant Patel, as well as Jake Sullivan, a primary policymaker for an addled president, who represented the actual center of power along with John Kirby, a former admiral, and Antony Blinken, the former secretary of state. The group spent the period from October 2023 to January 2025 lying to an anguished public. They lied scornfully (Jean-Pierre) or gleefully (Miller), mawkishly (Kirby and Blinken), or blandly (Patel and Sullivan). And they did it every day, for 15 months.
A Biden official says Israel committed war crimes. Who else will come forward?
The administration lied to obscure a genocide. Now a former spokesperson is revealing the disconnect between words and realityAhmed Moor (The Guardian)
Pipewire improved its accessibility, allowing for screenreaders to start much earlier
Post by the esoteric programmer, @esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club
I got interesting news from the fedora accessibility room today! this concerns blind and visually impaired #linux users exclusively, however: For a bit of time, specifically pipewire >=1.4, one can start pipewire as root.social.stealthy.club
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WhatsApp is officially getting ads
WhatsApp is rolling out ads. In an update on Monday, Meta announced that it will now show ads from businesses through its Stories-like status feature.
Meta says it will tailor the ads to your interests by using “limited” information, including your country or city, language, the channels you follow, and how you interact with ads on the platform. You can also change your ad preferences from Meta’s Accounts Center.
This isn’t the only change Meta is making to WhatsApp. The company will also start showing promoted channels when you click on the Explore button to find new ones to follow. It’s also rolling out the ability to subscribe to channels to “receive exclusive updates” as well.
WhatsApp is officially getting ads
WhatsApp is getting ads, as Meta has announced that it will now allow businesses to promote their products and services through its status feature.Emma Roth (The Verge)
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fair. Isreal motto seems to be attack, ask for ceasefire and then attack while negotiations are underway. Personally think it's a no brainer for Iran to see through that cover play.
Also agree with the decision to cease proceedings with the US during the period, it's unlikely anything beneficial will come out of the talks while engaging Isreal so it's a waste of effort.
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WhatsApp is adding ads to the Status screen
After years of providing free services without any bells attached, WhatsApp is now going to start showing ads on the popular chat app. To be clear, users will only see ads on the Status screen — the app’s take on Instagram’s Stories.So just like you see an ad after watching a few stories on Instagram, you will see ads on WhatsApp after you’ve scrolled through a few Status updates.
The company said that its ad mechanism uses signals like users’ country or city, language, and the channels they’re following, as well as data from ads that users interact with.
Meta said it is not using personally identifiable data, such as users’ phone numbers, messages, calls, and groups to serve targeted ads. If a user has added their WhatsApp account to Meta’s Account Center, the company will use their Account preferences to show ads.
WhatsApp is adding ads to the Status screen | TechCrunch
After years of not showing any ads, WhatsApp is adding ads to Status updates.Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)
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Scientists have studied remote work for 4 years and have reached a clear conclusion: working from home makes us happier
Scientists have studied remote work for 4 years and have reached a clear conclusion: working from home makes us happier - Caring Minds United
Scientists have spent four years diving deep into the world of remote work and stumbled upon a powerful truth: working from home genuinely makes usEgna Perez (Caring Minds United)
funny you should mention that (I know you're being sarcastic 😀
Overall, our results suggest that the rise in remote work and TFP growth are positively correlated. From 2019 to 2021, the (weighted) average percentage-point increase in remote workers across industries was 14.9. This suggests that the rise in remote work was associated with an average 1.2 percentage-points increase in industry-level TFP.
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The rise in remote work since the pandemic and its impact on productivity
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about dramatic changes in the work environment. Although 6.5 percent of workers in the private business sector worked primarily from home in 2019, the pandemic was the start of a massive experiment in full-time remote wo…Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.
Strength in numbers: Latin America urges unity in face of Trump tariffs
Strength in numbers: Latin America urges unity in face of Trump tariffs
Latin American leaders at CELAC summit in Honduras call for a united front to tackle US President Donald Trump's tariff onslaught.James Grainger (BATimes Newspaper)
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in reply to golden_zealot • • •on multimedia generation a little while ago.
it's not exactly what you're seeking, but my own experiences with going outside the norm with multimedia in linux gets you into niche territory REALLY fast and the best way to find you're seeking to ask people; so i would ask Veronica if they know anyone who might be able to help.
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in reply to eldavi • • •As others mentioned in this thread, yabridge running in a native Linux DAW is a great setup. I personally use Reaper with yabridge, Serum, and a few other vsts here and there.
For others who are more knowledgeable than me: is there any reason (engineering-wise) why these plugins are made for Windows? Are there not cross platform and open source frameworks that let you compile audio plugins for Windows + Mac + Linux with minimal effort?
I genuinely don't know anything about audio programming, I'm just curious.
whaleross
in reply to golden_zealot • • •I'm in the same position. I've got several paid VST that I'd like to use in Reaper on Linux but haven't gotten around trying to fiddle about when the installer fails. Not very experienced with Wine and quirks.
Somebody told me I'd be easier off getting installer free cracked versions of the software I already paid for but idk about malware and such in pirated software nowadays. Is it possible to containerize VSTs so they have access to nothing but their instance of Wine?
Takapapatapaka
in reply to whaleross • • •To use .dll VSTs on Linux with Reaper, i use yabridge. If i understood correctly it mixes the use of the linux .so VST format and Wine to trick the VSTs into thinking they run on Windows. So you can run Reaper outside of Wine, and automatically have access to Windows VSTs (once you setup yabridge properly).
It has some huge limitations (most Waves plugins are a big no, getting Kontakt to work seems to involve black magic way beyond my understanding, etc) but i got some plugins to work very well!
On the safety of Wine, i'm not sure at all. From what i understand of this forum, Wine itself is not really dangerous, but it does not block applications from communicating with Linux filesystem and environment so it's not 100% safe. However you are slightly protected by the niche aspect of Linux, which makes it unlilely for attackers to take time to code a virus that handles Linux way of working. And from my small experience with hacked VSTs on Windows, most werent a threat, especially when i took them from the same hacking team
LoopDigger
in reply to golden_zealot • • •github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridg…
I've been meaning to give this a try but not got around to it yet.
GitHub - robbert-vdh/yabridge: A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux
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in reply to golden_zealot • • •Welcome and congrats on your migration under GNU/Linux.
VST is a proprietary format therefore it is made to not work on linux.
On linux synth or virtual instruments are LV2 plugins (like Helm, Surge or Vitalium) or SF2/SFZ soundbank (played with Sfizz or Fluid Synth).
Now Ardour, Bitwig and Reaper can load VST plugins, but :
- Some won't just work,
- Some will work pretty much the same (Kontakt seems to be working for some person, but it depends on the version I think),
BUT if the VSTs needs to be installed before hand (like Kontakt, Spitfire, SINE and I think Arturia V falls into that), you will have to install them first using Wine (or with a wine front-end, like Bottles, Heroic, Lutris). Then load them in your DAW, if they don't work there after being properly download and installed, I don't think there is anything much to do...
... Apart from try using a bridge (like Lin-VST or Yabridge), but here against results are still very unpredictable. I got some pretty god results with both on the past, but on my new setup none would work for my plugins (Spitfires mostly).
These companies won't make their plugins available under Linux cause 'there isn't enough people using it on linux' (words of someone at Spitfire who I was asking the question).
My workflow for production in a few words :
- One PC (recording, mixing, mastering) with a midi keyboard,
- One PC virtual instruments only, I use it when project requires lot of instrument tracks.
Edit : Yeah Carla can be used as well, it can load VST plugins and act like a plugin library (pretty much like Kontakt).
Valsa
in reply to golden_zealot • • •Are you familiar with yabridge? It can take a windows vst (.DLL) and create a Linux counterpart (.so) that daws can scan and open normally.
github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridg…
In my experience, it works pretty much perfectly about 80% of the time, and the remaining 20% are buggy but useable, or rarely completely broken. I don't have Arturia's V Collection, but I have Analog Lab 5 and that runs without bugs. If they are built with similar technology, then you might expect V Collection to work as well.
GitHub - robbert-vdh/yabridge: A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux
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in reply to Valsa • • •So the V collection is similar to analog lab in that it can be downloaded from the same software center and may use their licensing from that, but the gripe is whether or not I need Arturia's software center installed somehow in the first place. Is your version of analog lab licensed? If so, do you recall how you got it installed/working/Licensed under linux (using their software center or some other way?). I am not sure if you can just grab a VST/LV2 from them - I was under the impression you needed to install your licensed products via that software center.
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Valsa
in reply to golden_zealot • • •So I recently reinstalled Linux on my machine but hadn't bothered to reinstall Analog Lab, so I just did that now to confirm it still works. It was really easy.
From their website I got the installer, and ran Analog Lab V Setup.exe with Wine. I went through the setup wizard just like you would on Windows, and then manually moved the vst file from the Wine directories into my normal vst location (~/.vst). After this, I generated the .so file with yabridge. This is also a really simple process. If you are using yabridge for the first time, you need to tell it where your plugins are:
$ yabridgectl add path/to/vstAfter that, generate the .so files:
$ yabridgectl syncOnce this is done, your DAW of choice should be able to find and open the plugin. For me, Analog Lab V opened without issue and prompted me for my account info. Here's Analog Lab V on my machine:
Edit: I forgot to mention my copy is legit and it activated no problem.
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in reply to golden_zealot • • •So this is kind of going to be weird advice. Maybe not exactly what you are looking for.
You don't need all those synths and plugins. You really don't. You can get so, so far just by learning to use the tools that are built into Reaper or Bitwig.
There are really only a handful of audio effects that "really exist" a lot of FX plugins are just complex chains with fancy UIs. But if you understand what they're doing "under the hood" you can reproduce almost any sound from from the basic building blocks you have.
The same is true for synthesisers. You truly only need one synth as long as it is a flexible, general purpose modern synth. Learning to use one specific synth to it's full potential will let you make almost any sound you can imagine. Vital synth is a perfect candidate here btw.
Overall I kind of think part of the Linux mindset in general is kind of about doing things your self based on an understanding of the core principals at play.
That being said, there are tons of plugins coming out with native Linux support all the time and it's getting better every day.
I'm actually about to drop some Linux builds of some plugins myself but I don't want to dox myself here so that will have to remain a mystery for now.
golden_zealot
in reply to vala • • •It's an ungodly amount of trouble to make an additive synth work like an FM synth and neither of those can accomplish what a wavetable synth does without even more work so I really have to disagree. Vital is great, but it would take way too long to make it do what Arturias Vocoder V does for example, or even at that, as easy to use for that specific purpose.
Technically you are correct, but I would rather spend my time making music instead of spending hundreds or thousands of hours setting up automations and almost unnoticeable tweaks to make each effect and each instrument work in a way I want them to (like if I want a specific sound of known instruments).
Like, I could make a full song with several "instruments" using one sample of a spoon falling off of a table too, and that's neat, but it's also not what I want to be doing. If I wanted this involved of a workflow, I would probably be making my music in a tracker or on a physical, fully modular synthesizer.
Inspirations come a lot easier when you have many synths with many presets in my experience, and tweaking a lot of their parameters for the sounds they make are usually simple if you are using the actual thing you want instead of something else.
Furthermore, most of Arturias V collection are emulations of the real physical hardware, and this is why I like them. I could use vital to try to emulate a Juno-106 with degraded voice chips, but the Arturia Juno emulation lets you do this with 2 clicks.
Anyway, I know what you are trying to say, but it is not what I am looking for most of the time. For stuff like that I play around with my Roland P-6 and Korg Monotrons.
Thanks.
LainTrain
in reply to golden_zealot • • •I tried to use Bitwig but I just couldn't in the end. No single click note delete that I could find out how to do in a reasonable amount of time and the workflow is just different enough to FL to me to irritate, it seemed like really nice software for Ableton-minded folks though.
I caved in and dual booted Windows 10 with all the shite modded out/crippled, for music and for VR gaming.
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in reply to golden_zealot • • •azvasKvklenko
in reply to golden_zealot • • •What you really need is one of native DAWs you mentioned combined with Windows VST plugins run using Yabridge + WINE.
I remember running even complex VSTs along with realtime MIDI processing from e-drums with really good results and low latency.
1) Make sure your distro runs Pipewire and has pipewire-jack installed. Run your DAWs with JACK backend
2) You can check wiki.archlinux.org/title/Profe… for tips regarding audio performance. Don't worry if you don’t use Arch-based distro. Most of it applies to any distro really
3) Install wine and yabridge follow setup instructions on how sync your plugins, which essentially takes specified locations with VST2/VST3 DLLs and creates .so equivalents (Linux dll format) under specified location that under the hood calls Wine, but makes it transparent. You add that location (with .so files) in your DAWs search paths and it should scan those plugins like if they were native.
Of course some compatibility issues are possible, but you should be able to run most stuff this way when it comes to plugins.
GitHub - robbert-vdh/yabridge: A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux
GitHubfour
in reply to golden_zealot • • •I like the Surge XT synth. Helm is also nice.
There's Helio sequencer, which isn't quite a DAW but has some other pros.
golden_zealot
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in reply to golden_zealot • • •Kaufen | Bitwig
www.bitwig.comMinekPo1 [it/she]
in reply to golden_zealot • • •I will say that I'm not really a musician however I've found LMMS and VCV Rack to be two options I really like . neither are well described as DAWs , LMMS is from what I understand close to a DAW with the exception of not supporting audio tracks aside from samples and VCV Rack is a Eurorack simulator .
just to be clear : this isn't likely good advice unless you really want to experiment
Eugenia
in reply to golden_zealot • • •The reality is, to get these Windows VSTs to work on Linux, is possible via 2-3 ways, but they're crashy, and sometimes will work, and after an OS upgrade might stop working (as it happened last year with yabridge under ubuntu) etc. The truth is, you can't rely 100% on these VSTs anymore under Linux, it's too hairy of a situation overtime. You might be able to get it working for a project, and two years later to try to reload that project, only to have these plugins not working anymore, so the project would crash on you and not be able to load it anymore.
If you want to switch to Linux, you will need to use the well supported, native plugins only that get updated regularly for new linux versions. Yes, it's a waste of money for your existing purchases, but this is what's true for everyone who have ever bought Windows software in the past, and they're now switching to Linux. Maybe you can sell them?
Alternatively, use Windows for your audio work, and if you want to stay on Windows 10, make sure that this computer is not on the internet connected anymore (due to not receive security updates anymore), and use Linux for your everyday computer tasks.
Thebigguy
in reply to golden_zealot • • •Carla can host windows VST plugins
kx.studio/Applications:Carla
These are the plugins I use alongside the standard Bitwig ones
This is what I use
A JUCE version of open303
midilab.co/jc303/
A fully open source and free version of VCV rack
cardinal.kx.studio/
Surge a VST synth
surge-synthesizer.github.io/
Emulates the Motorola dsp56300 you can get an emulation of the acess Virus
dsp56300.wordpress.com/
That’s all free
linuxdaw.org/
More free and paid stuff there. Enjoy!
Surge
surge-synthesizer.github.iospeed_skirmish
in reply to golden_zealot • • •As others mentioned in this thread, yabridge running in a native Linux DAW is a great setup. I personally use Reaper with yabridge, Serum, and a few other vsts here and there.
For others who are more knowledgeable than me: is there any reason (engineering-wise) why these plugins are made for Windows? Are there not cross platform and open source frameworks that let you compile audio plugins for Windows + Mac + Linux with minimal effort?
I genuinely don't know anything about audio programming, I'm just curious.
Elkenders
in reply to speed_skirmish • • •Übercomplicated
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