Hey Lemmy,
This is an ad for my new audio plugin. Hopefully its the kind of ad that's allowed / appreciated here.
Quick Facts
- Full cross-platform support
- Any DAW except Pro Tools
- 120+ parameters
- 150+ included presets
- 18+ effects
- Tons of LFOs
- Full dynamic routing system
- This is my third commercial plugin.
- I have many other free plugins / tools / toys on my site
- I build all my stuff on Linux (arch btw)
- Everything has excellent Linux support because of that.
- I'm very active on Lemmy, just with accounts where I don't dox myself
Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBHFDtaEzno
Website
https://replicataudio.com/kingkrusher
25% Off - Lemmy Discount
I made a discount code just for Lemmy users.
RA-LEMMY-MH4MCOKP-25
100% Off - ONLY 2 CODES!
For the first 2 people who jump on it, here are 2 100% off vouchers that will allow you to checkout without even entering a credit card.
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In This Economy!?
If you would like to own this plugin but simply can not afford it for any reason, let me know. I would be happy to hook you up! You don't need to tell me why you can't afford it. Just get in contact with me via some DM-like system and I will get you a copy. My contact info is available on the ReplicatAudio website.
AI Disclosure
I'm an experienced software developer and have been doing this for a very long time (way before LLMs). This is the first plugin I've released since LLMs have taken over software development.
- LLMs were used to aid in the development process
- I use a custom agentic harness focused on:
- Speeding up bulk work
- Not making engineering / design decisions
- LLMs were never used to make important choices
- ALL ARTWORK is 100% human made
- I have been using Blender for over a decade now
- I understand all of the code (as well as I normally would at least)
- I stand by this product and will support it moving forward
- Despite LLM use, this represents 6+ months of full time work
Thanks so much for checking this out!
Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or want to chat. I will be watching this thread as well.
20 Comments
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 6d
Man as soon as someone makes a DAW on Linux that's easy enough for me and there are plugins that can compete with the industry, I'll complete bail on windows. Microsoft shattered windows by gutting their development teams, and as far as I can tell there is no future for windows beyond vague ideas and AI.
replicat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 6d
We have commercial DAWs now!
Bitwig is very modern, very pro. Basically better Ableton Live. The pricing is confusing/questionable but this is my main "creative DAW" (Full disclosure, I get this DAW for free as part of their developer/creator program).
https://www.bitwig.com/
Reaper also supports Linux. A very powerful DAW if a bit rough around the edges.
https://reaper.fm/
Plugins on the other hand, have a long way to go. But I'm doing my part.
FWIW KingKrusher also supports Windows and macOS.
clemcall@mastodon.social · 2 pts · 6d
@replicat
What about Ardour ?
That's a genuine question, I'm looking to start music production on Linux and that seemed like the more mature option so far
replicat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6d
I was just focusing on commercial options that people use on other platforms.
But in terms of open source DAWs Ardour is the most mature one I know of for sure.
Also worth checking out:
That being said, the most stable, out of the box good experience will unfortunately come from commercial options.
PaulDavisTheFirst@fosstodon.org · 2 pts · 6d
@hoshikarakitaridia @replicat what's wrong with the existing DAW options on Linux (asking for a friend) ?
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5d
I (kind of) understand reaper but I take too much time on a lot of things, so that's not feasible for me.
Ardour I didn't even understand how to create a midi clip so I had to stop learning it and that was a big turn-off.
LMMS is not industry-ready in my opinion and a lot of other people's opinion.
There were some others I am missing.
I think cakewalk had one but I cannot test it without paying, so that's not great.
And then there's yadaw which is pretty new and I haven't tried yet. I have high hopes but it didn't exist when I gave it a shot last time, so we'll have to see.
And Windows daws through bottles / wine / etc. is far too unstable to work from what I've tried.
Yeah and then there's the whole thing about plugins. Basically I have to replace most of my workflow and for some plugins I don't even know if there's a workable replacement:
Like there's so much in there, even when the daw is solved I am looking at death by a thousand cuts trying to get workable replacements for all those.
PaulDavisTheFirst@fosstodon.org · 4 pts · 5d
@hoshikarakitaridia as the lead author of Ardour, I'd say that if your workflow is dependent on those plugins, you should plan on staying on Windows (or macOS) for the foreseeable future.
Sorry that you couldn't grok Ardour, but that happens.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5d
Thanks for being chill and yeah that makes sense. I'm rooting for Linux but in the meantime I'll have to make do. I do hope at some point I'll try again and maybe things will click eventually.
bleustenns@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 5d
Keep an eye on zrhythm. It's still in development but they have an alpha you can test right now. 25 USD for a license rn is also really sweet, I won't lie.
jpaskaruk@growers.social · 2 pts · 6d
@hoshikarakitaridia @replicat I have always promoted the linux desktop, but never the Year Of The Linux Desktop, but I am lately predicting that year, in one of the next five,
strictly based on Microsoft shitting and shitting and then explosively shitting the bed until only miserable corporate cubiclebeests are using it. Microsoft failing on an existential level, dovetails with Valve being the new alpha in video games, even if anticheat is likely to keep competitive games locked in for a while.
And if you lose the gamers, you lose the desktop, period.
But wait, there's more! I keep reading announcements that various VST makers are supporting Linux in ever-greater numbers. I'm not a heavy user of em, but it's indicative. Like I think Serum is considered a huge deal, and I think I read it's got Linux support now.
It's coming.
replicat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6d
Serum is indeed a huge deal. It's competitor Vital has been on Linux for a long time but if Serum is also coming over that's pretty big news!
I think we could see some big changes in the audio world over the next few years.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6d
I should look into this. For me it's phase plant for synths. That would be huge.
dereisenhofer@metalhead.club · 1 pts · 6d
@hoshikarakitaridia To me that's Reaper with plugins by airwindows, Tukan Studios, AudioThings, U-He, and some more (got a list of manufacturers to check out). @replicat
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6d
That list might come in handy. Unfortunately, the choice between reaper, lmms and ardour is not a great one for me.
dereisenhofer@metalhead.club · 2 pts · 6d
@hoshikarakitaridia Before I switched to Linux, I already worked with Reaper on Windows, so that was no issue for me. It took a while to replace my go to plugins, but now I'm even more satisfied with my setup.
fabio@cosocial.ca · 1 pts · 6d
@hoshikarakitaridia I’m guessing the answer is “yes” but have you looked at Bitwig? https://www.bitwig.com/
replicat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6d
Bitwig on Linux is genuinely a great experience.
I used Ableton for a very long time and moving to BW was basically seamless.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6d
Mhm I can't remember but there was something that stopped me from genuinely using it.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 6d
It's not open source...
I was looking for this. Well, thanks for being honest about it at least.
Interesting. I don't know what the last 2 words mean, but maybe someone can explain...
replicat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5d
This plugin isn't open source but I've released dozens of GPL projects in the past. Not Impossible that this will be open source some day.
An "Agentic Harness" is a software tool used for giving an LLM "agency" via local tool calls and tricking LLMs into following specific patterns.
Harnesses like Claude Code insist on taking the wheel. I'm not interested in that. I want the LLM to follow my explicit instructions, not expand, not assume, never engineer.
I use LLMs to produce simple code quickly, but never to make decisions. Never to design or engineer.
So I've built my own harness to take back control of the LLM.
Also FWIW, if it says anything about my approach to LLM use, the model that was used most of the time on this project was
deepseek-v4-flashwith thinking "off".Edit: my original post said "antigenic harness" which was a typo