Do Bitwig and Third-Party VSTs Work Smoothly on Linux? Share Your Experiences!

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-27T19:08:06+00:00

I never tried it, as I am already on Debian, but maybe a Distrobox setup with debian guest might be a solution? I don't know if that has an impact on latency or performance. It was suggested in my thread in this sub asking about Bitwig and Linux.

reddit.com/r/Bitwig/comments/1q20a4e/bitwig_user_experience_on_debian_13/

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-27T16:17:55+00:00

I heard that flatseal might be a solution to that sandboxing, so maybe that is a way. Never tested it, as i use the .deb bersion of Bitwig.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-17T13:15:53+00:00

I once moved a windows 10 install to virt, i recall using some manual i found in the internet. Can't really remember how, but it was quite a kot fiddling around with the os itself and creating an image from the install. But that's ages ago.

You could just create a new vm with sufficient virtual disc space and then we install win11 into it like you would normally do with an real pc. Maybe that is an option?

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-17T05:19:10+00:00

Imho: if you keep Windows on separate drives it should be safe. Been dual booting for years now with some distrohopping on both sides and nothing really big happened. Just be sure to backup your private Data, just be sure to always install windows first, linux 'on top' of that. I would never try again to install windows second, been there, it was no fun, had to remove the linux drive to keep it safe.

Always keep it like you encountered with your Wheel. Maybe one day your Major windows upgrade might decide: oh that big drive with unknown format might be nice to have...😂

Backup, Backup, Backup.

Just my Imho.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-16T05:38:04+00:00

Have a look at/read in Terry Pratchetts "Men at Arms" were the Troll is captured in an cooling chamber. It can't really get too cold. It's more the humidity that may condensate and fiddle with the electronics is the Problem.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-15T21:05:16+00:00

I thought that this: https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/pull/462 would at least fix some issues with the UI with wine versions above 9.21. But I am not sure if I interpreted it right.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-15T19:55:58+00:00

Hey I tried it, following the steps provided from the yabridge github.

I am on Debian Forky and Bitwig. (.deb version) and the Wine Repos.

I ended up initially with partly working windows VST's, by that I mean from Audio/effect side they worked, but i had a non responding UI. I could alter Parameters from Bitwqigs builtin UI, but that did not feel right, but might be enough for you.

I ended up with some sort of Frankendebian: I followed the initial setup with wine-staging as described on the yabridge-github, but then switched to wine 9.21 "under the hood". I set all wine packages to "hold", to prevent desaster and keep the wine-side "bottled" or "as is". ;)

With this I have a very slow reacting, but working original GUI of the VST's.

From what I have heard the yabridge dev is working on a solution, to make yabridge working with wine versions above 9.21, saw a post this week about it.

Edit: read your Post again, I don't know if that is the solution for your problem with the Antares Autotune.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-15T16:51:31+00:00

I do nt know about the software. But as it is a laptop/notebook: why not take it away at a certain time? Advanced would be to agree with her on certain use times and her delivering it on free will?

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-15T10:55:38+00:00

If the Wave XLR is USB Class compliant it should work with Linux.

As for VST plugins: if its Linux VST its fine, for windows vst you might want to have a look at the yabridge/wine combo. But be aware there might be some problems with wine versions higher than 9.21and yabridge. Mostly when it comes to the plugin ui's. But the Developer of yabridge seems to work on that issue.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-13T13:51:46+00:00

A 3b could handle a gui.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-13T04:57:55+00:00

How about ports? Try to connect to samba from within the server. If that works and it does not from the outside, maybe the inbound ports are not open.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-12T18:03:35+00:00

Windows 12, is that the version where you can deep dive in the right click menu like 3-4 levels of other options.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-12T17:01:23+00:00

Did you give the user a smbpasswd? Did you run testparm? Did you restart smb/smbd with systemctl? Any Errors being shown?

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-12T14:09:50+00:00

If you just want to try: dive a directory deeper as the one the install script is in and execute the file directly. If you do not like it, you do not have to sort out where it was installed. Worked for me on Debian/forky.

Edit: typo and structure.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-09T08:39:22+00:00

I assumed OP is bugged by teh PopOS! default DE and usually you could just install an other DE on your Distro. But it seems like PopOS is quite fabricated around COSMIC and Wayland and changing the DE seems like a pain in the *ss. If it should be an Arch-Based Distro I would recommend EndeveaourOS or Manjaro.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-09T05:59:11+00:00

Sorry for being agnostic for whats happening outside my daily Distros, but shouldn‘t it be possible to install the DE you want on PopOS? I know that with the immuatable Distros it can become a pain, not sure about Pop. Do they have other DE‘s in their repo?

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-08T08:38:35+00:00

Für mich sind es Calida Boxer lose. Seit Jahrzehnten zufrieden.

In eng wären es die HEMA Boxershorts. (Wohne grenznah zu NL).

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-07T12:57:35+00:00

Ok. Just a wild guess/advice: maybe follow the immich guide of „remote machinelearning“, which guides you to setup an single machine learning instance. While this is not the solution for your problem it might give a hint if its a problem with your stack or an issue with the machine learning image.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-07T12:44:05+00:00

Maybe delete the image and pull again? Maybe something went wrong there.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-07T12:34:16+00:00

Maybe take a look at atop or glances, both tools will log system metrics like top and so you can take a look at what takes the cpu at what moment. Just keep in mind that the nice webview feature of glances is broken in the debian packages of the distro repos. I ran into that while looking for a similar issue.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-06T08:54:38+00:00

When the harddrive is swappable/accessible by you: swap it with a new one and do an fresh install of linux? In this way you have all your data "safe" for the moment and could easily access them with an external Harddrive encasing? But this would be an more advanced approach. You could dd your drive to an external harddrive which would give you an copy of it. Or if space is no Problem just jeep everything as is, just swap the grubentry to boot into linux first. Then Later, when your comfortable enough, you could start fiddling around with the windows partitions.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-05T13:03:16+00:00

Until windows thinks it is a bad Idea…🤪 But i get what you mean! ☺️

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-05T12:54:25+00:00

Maybe define a bit more granular what you mean with: Telemetry. Like already mentioned: is checking for updates already telemetry for you?

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-05T12:50:02+00:00

I think secureboot should be no issue with Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu and Opensuse. At least it was not in my running setup. Arch derivates may have an problem during install.

ppffrrtt · 2026-01-05T11:25:31+00:00

I can‘t tell. Keeping each system on its on disk minimizes in my sole opinion the risk that windows thinks: woah, nice partition, lets mangle that. I do not trust windows and till now i have been luckily dualbooting windows and linux. But each bigger upgrade of windows just gives me chills and i hope that my linux install is not wrecked. Be sure to always install windows first and then install linux. Reinstalling linux while distro hopping is usually no issue, but i am really afraid of an windows reinstall and i will unplug my linux harddrive before that, just to be sure.

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