LinuxMusicians

Do you want a general linux distro or a music-production oriented one? For general I suggest Mint, for music, AVLinux. But really there are many choices, that are fairly similar. Also note you usually can make a bootable-USB stick to boot into a linux system and try it out before you install it.

I think most Anrdroid phones have a single mic. If you want to record stereo you need to get an external stereo mic. Google "android stereo microphone".

FYI, I don't speak for AV Linux, I'm just a user. Concerning building a audio workstation see the Your Studio & Gear section of the forum. I think your enthusiasm is great, but you may have to make some adjustments to move to linux audio from Mac. You need to be very aware of compatibility of au...

I see the error seems to be: ERROR: firewire ERR: Could not prepare streaming device! I don't know exactly what this means, but it seems that your system could not connect the device. Have you tried the basic things like cycle power, reboot, unplug/replug firewire cable? If that does not work I sugg...

Pianoteq has a standalone version which you probably noticed. I play that most of the time because it has the nice feature of recording everything you play, so you can easily save your musical ideas. I have the Estate Piano from productionvoices.com which I never play anymore. I think the piano's at...

Its not weird that it works with plugue. Plogue is commercial software and supports many more sfz opcodes than any open source sfz player. Many commercial sfz files recommend using plugue. Its not unlikely that your commercial sfz file uses opcodes not supported in sfizz. If you want a very good pia...

These seem to be related to "acpi" = Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. I tend to think these processes should not use so much CPU, but I don't know what you can do about it.

Its not normal to use a large amount of CPU permanently. Run the "top" command in a terminal to see what programs are using so much cpu (exit top by typing "q").

I just installed Pulse Effects to see what you are talking about. I think you could use the multiband compressor as a bass limiter. Configure the Sub Band to have a high ratio, perhaps 10, so that it become like a limiter. Set the other bands of the multiband to bypass. Put on some bass-heavy music ...

AVL-MXE is not exactly a one-man show, its is based on MXE Linux and uses other repositories like kxstudio. Also, the maintainer has a 10 year record of updating AVLinux, though of course I can't predict the future.

Have you followed the steps in the AVL-MXE manual for "Running Windows Audio Software", page 52? Manual available here: http://www.bandshed.net/avlinux/

I notice this is based on HiFi-LoFi FFTConvolver which is also used in KlangFalter, also from HiFi-LoFi. So it would seem to be mainly be a repackaging of KlangFalter.

Since you mention you have a Yamaha keyboard I don't see that you need VMPK. Just connect your Yamaha keyboard via USB midi (if it has this) to whatever synth, sampler you have. I only use VMPK if I don't have a real keyboard set up, and I want to test a synth. Concerning Pianoteq it is downloadable...

VMPK by itself does not make any sound, see https://vmpk.sourceforge.io/ . If you want to make sound you need to send your midi data from you keyboard (or from VMPK) to a sampler or synth. There are many synths available: http://www.linuxsynths.com . For something that works easily with Alsa I might...

You might also consider AVL-MXE: http://www.bandshed.net/avlinux/.