Hello everyone! I've been doing music production as a freelance, part time job for artists in my city for around 5 years. I switched to Linux about 4 months ago and the last piece of the puzzle is settling my music production workflow.
I recently started a project with an artist and I decided to use Linux to work on it. I'm using like 65% Linux native plug-ins and the rest are windows plug-ins running through Wine 9 stable and the latest version of yabrdige on Arch Linux with Pipewire (Including Pipewire JACK).
In the sessions I've had with the artist, some Windows plug-ins have given me trouble (Arturia Analog Lab Pro). Mostly crackling when the plugin gets heavy in resource usage, which doesn't happen in windows.
Then, when I'm working alone, sometimes REAPER, my DAW of choice, freezes out of nowhere and I have to force quit the program. That has happened like 8 times. Luckily not with the artist.
Also REAPER has this weird bug with typing in the text fields of the plug-ins where it just doesn't type anything. And dragging and dropping in the plug-ins also doesn't work.
I'm determined to make Linux and music production work. That's why I'm asking here for advice, hopefully some of you are in a situation where your Linux system works wonderfully for your professional audio work.
I know probably some of you will say that I should stick to Linux native plug-ins only. But there are some that don't have a replacement, like plug-ins to simulate studio environments for mixing, like dSoniq realphones (my choice), Waves Nx, Steven Slate VSX, etc.
Any tips are welcome!