Using K Brown Synth Plugins in Linux Mint?

[LinMusGuy]

I would like to use the K Brown Synth Plugins on my Linux Mint computer. I tried them in Carla and LMMS but in both cases the user interfaces of the plugins were without text so that one couldn't see what the knobs were for. Has anybody here been more successful in using these VST plugins?

[glowrak guy]

Kay was active in a topic, the link below is in the middle somewhere of the thread,
but you can tell by his contibution, that he understands synth architecture, which obviates
some of the limitations of using stock modules, He mentions a couple of favorites,
I'll try them in reaper, and add a new post with the results. I still use quite a few
Synth-Edit plugins, because there were some great sound designers and module chainers
in the ranks of the devs, and great is great is great. Time matters not.

http://www.flowstone.co.uk/support/view ... &start=240

[glowrak guy]

I tested a few of these in linux Reaper, and then windows Reaper in wine-staging 5.6

In linux Reaper, fonts appeared normal, but preset handling was terrible, and possibly
there are varying supplies of actual presets on a per-synth basis. Testing lead to a complete
system freeze, but in fairness, the system itself is in testing mode.

Using the windows reaper I had better luck, despite much weird preset behavior.
Fonts were still fine, knobs/sliders/buttons moved as directed.

1. long preset loading times
2. loading new sound, but most parameters are turned off
3. loading a new sound, but no gui changes.
4. hence many presets are silent

Some sounds load in multiple preset locations,
as if a variety of different sounding 'init' patches were provided.

One bit of good news, I modified the default sound from the Chorg DS 600
and saved it as a .fxp sound preset using reapers plugin panel,
and was able to reload it after having switched back to the original.

I've tried quite a few SynthMaker plugins in linux over many years,
and almost none worked well enough to keep, Only a few
amp/eq plugins from Sir Elliot and ACME Bargig remain in use today.

There are so many excellent synths that work great,
I wouldn't risk corrupting a hard-drive on these.
Suggesting: Firebird, Cobalt, sq8l, pg8x, Charlatan, the Ugo collection, Full Bucket Music collection,
Max synths collection, H.G. Fortune collection, B. Serrano collection, Krakli collection (facebook downloads)
GTG collection, Psychic Modulation collection, Synth1, Dexed, Yoshimi/zynaddsubfx, free U-he synths TyrellN6,
Beatzille, TripleCheese and Zebralette (installs as part of the Zebra2 demo)
And ZebraCM from Computer Music Magazine, among many others from
the mag... these generally just work in linux or wine Reaper, offering tens-of-thousands of presets,
and a decade of synth and sound design, minus the hassles from SynthMaker products..
Cheers

[glowrak guy]

http://www.vst4free.com

The plugins from that site rated 4 or 5 stars are often worth checking out.
Cheers

[GMaq]

Hi,

Got a few to work here in Ardour 5.12 with Wine-Staging 5.6 and LinVST 2.8, they didn't work at all in soon to be released Ardour 6.. None of the Spogg or Flowstones worked and just as many KBrown ones failed or froze the UI as worked..

These seem to be a huge set and prone to waste a lot of your time to get working in Linux, as glowrak said.. SynthMaker isn't well tolerated in Linux under Wine and it is the basis of all these Plugins... I'd say... Run Away! This looks like red flag city to me...

[LinMusGuy]

Thank you all!

@ glowrak guy

Yes - I am already using most of the VST's you mention. The reason I'm interested in the K. Brown plugins is that I also want to have some free Buchla emulations. It looks like the only free Buchla emulation VST's available are those by K. Brown.

[tavasti]

In case of wanting old synth emulations and windows plugins are ok, Syntronik Free is potential https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/syntronik/

[LinMusGuy]

Found out today that the text on the Gui's of the K Brown plugins (or at least on the ones I tested) has become visible after I downloaded corefonts by means of Winetricks.