Why using Linux for music production?

[khz]

A soma Lyra-8 is super good

Slightly off topic: There is the Lira-8 viewtopic.php?p=164557#p164557 and as a mod plugin the Cosmic viewtopic.php?p=164559#p164559. (The Soma Simplexfm (HW) manual says at the end:

And finally, SimplexFM demonstrates the capabilities of the Metaconformer module itself,
which is a completely open system. Its hardware and CPU completely belong to the user.
If you know how to program in C, then welcome. Write your own synth and share it with
the world!
If you don't know how to program in C, but want to learn how to program for hardware,
then Metaconformer will be an excellent starting point for you in this path. All the hardware
is already assembled, you just need to learn how to write software.
Start from flashing LEDs, through your own MIDI controller, to a custom polyphonic synth.

.)

[folderol]

With any synth, hard or soft, the importance of good default settings can't be overstated. To that end I give a shout out for Paul Nasca.
The values he decided on in 2006, have remained untouched by us in Yoshi, and I would guess the same is true for Zyn. Enable any feature in any engine or effect and you immediately get something interesting.

For the most basic example, start with Simple Sound - a sine wave. Select the Reverb effect and it gives you Cathedral 1. Play a few notes in the higher part of the keyboard and you hear beautiful liquid notes.

[asbak]

A negative example for commercial Hardware emulation IMHO is the Roland D-50 VST. They should have called it LA-Synth engine or something else, but not D-50. It's missing character and sounds too perfect. Just how LA synthesis is implemented today.

On the bright side, it's low on resources (unlike their ACB plugins) and runs nicely in yabridgectl

[glowrak guy]

How is the registration setup for the D50? I wouldn't have guessed Roland kept code simple enough to work in linux, so a nice surprise,
and glad to hear you have it working.
Cheers