Did you also have success running Steinberg plugins like Retrologue?
I’ve dabbled with trying to install anything Steinberg stuff with Wine in the past, but it refused to work out of the box.
Arturia stuff worked great with Wine and Yabridge without any tinkering.
That was on Mint with an older version of Wine though.
Still dreaming about Linux support for Cubase/Nuendo.
Time is ticking away.. make it happen before it is too late. Make it work on linux. No more exuses, please. Other software company are doing it.. Why ? Because, we no more can trust U.S.A . (i was user of steinberg before cubase and nuendo - remember ATARI? - and then .. long way to here..)
I’ve moved all my computers to Linux except the one that I use for Nuendo. I can even edit my video work with DaVinci Resolve under Linux. Hopefully Steinberg can see the value in offering Nuendo/Cubase that will run under Linux.
It would be enough if Steinberg just made Cubase compatible with SteamOS and Proton. It would also mean that Cubase could be sold and bought from in Steam cloud, and would increase Cubase markets.
Bravo! I have a similar hybrid setup (with more machines still on Windows compared to you though), and I’ve mentioned before (probably more than once in this thread) that I almost made the full jump to Linux last year. But it didn’t work out (yet again) and I decided to stick it out with Windows for the time being due to some positive developments (IMO) and my need for specific plugins that don’t run under Wine. But I LOVE to hear when people make even a partial transition to Linux. While my opinion of Windows has changed (in a positive direction) due to people like Microsoft’s Pete Brown, I still dream of a Linux future at some point!
This may be an interesting related side story: over the last few weeks I’ve been in discussion with my son (now a young new professional musician) about what new DAW he should be using. He knows more or less what I have used over the years (which includes most DAWs, including on Mac, Windows, and Linux), and of course we talked about Cubase. As his dad, I’ve been supplying him with tech for years (you know the routine, Christmas presents, birthdays, etc.), but now he’s been forging his own paths.
I had assumed he was still stuck on Macs (I bought him his last Mac and at the time he wanted Studio One) and I figured he was going to be another long-term Mac user, eventually a Pro Tools user, and so forth. So when we talked about DAWs, I always like being really clear and honest about the landscape so that he can make an informed decision for himself. Of course I was hoping he’d pick Cubase, since I prefer to compose in Cubase, etc.. Previously he had chosen Studio One but he was losing confidence in it, so he needed to make a decision about another DAW for his next phase. So now we were discussing the possibilities of Cubase, Logic, Pro Tools, and Reaper, as the primary candidates for him.
But then out of the blue, to my utter SHOCK, he said he wanted to dump Macs and move to Linux in the future. WHAT?!?!?!?! He said he was sick of the “big corporate operating systems” and wanted to go Linux.
Now this is completely without me trying to persuade him in any way. He knew I loved Linux, but he never showed any real prior interest in it, and didn’t share his disappointment with current commercial OSes. Until now.
Then our conversation obviously changed completely to his NEW preference of future plans with Linux, that anything we collaborate with should be able to run on Linux too. Again, I was totally shocked by this.
I try to present information to him in an unbiased way (as much as I humanly can), so he can choose for himself. I was honestly holding out hope he’d choose Cubase. And he said if Cubase ran on Linux, he would choose it. BUT, after our discussion and my explanation of the landscape of Linux, and his personal preferences, he decided on, you guessed it… Reaper.
So what a shocker to me. In my mind I thought he was going Mac/Logic/ProTools, or MAYBE Mac/Cubase. But it was very interesting that his FIRST choice was Cubase on what?!?!? CUBASE ON LINUX. But since Cubase wasn’t on Linux, he didn’t want to even bother learning it and getting used to it, and would rather just dive in to Reaper.
Truth is, he’s a smart young man, and a very talented young musician, and if I personally didn’t ALREADY rely on the tools and workflows in Cubase, plus all the gazillions of plugins that I need for work (that DON’T run on Wine), I can theoretically see myself right there with him on Linux too! He’s right at the perfect age when he is able to make this kind of decision, and I post this story here because it’s kind of red flag to Steinberg because they are literally missing out on the kind of customer from Gen Z that they SHOULD be courting. He’s an ideal young long-term pro musician Cubase user.
And he said he’s done with the big corporate OSes, and where does he want to go? Linux.
Word to the wise at Steinberg HQ who is perhaps hopefully paying attention to this thread: You are losing young potential customers entering the professional world right now. My own son would have been a GREAT long-term paying customer from this new generation of young musicians, and he ALMOST chose Cubase… but passed on it because it doesn’t run on Linux.
Now this could all change of course (for a variety of reasons, he is still young after all), but if Steinberg announced interest in supporting Linux, I’m guessing that would have a positive impact on people like my son. You never know, things change, people change. BUT that seems like a long shot.
And since it’s a big dream of mine to collaborate with my son on projects from time to time, I’m obviously going to try to accommodate him! (After all, dads don’t always get to have cool opportunities like this with their grown kids, so I don’t want to create unnecessary barriers to collaboration!)
So now I’m going to set up a special computer just to collaborate with my son when he finally sets up a Linux machine, and guess what? It will be running Reaper of all things. The very DAW I was using less and less recently, due to the excellent C14/N14 release.
Of course I’ll keep running Cubase, etc., for my main stuff, but TBH I’m excited to collaborate with my son on whatever platform he wants to use. Fortunately, both Cubase and Reaper support DAWproject (thank goodness!) to some degree, so I can maybe start some of my stuff in Cubase, move it over to Reaper to work with him.
Crazy days, folks! CRAZY DAYS!
+1
Put me down as another person that would even pay to crossgrade from Nuendo for mac/win to Nuendo Linux
Reasons:
Sadly, I am getting more and more worried that the people in charge of most companies, including music tech companies, are too in bed with M$. I think they have this thought lingering in the backs of their minds that PERHAPS Satya Nadella is right, and that somehow AI is going to be the future… The answer to every problem. And that the integration of AI directly into the OS is the final solution to computing.
This is of course not the case. In fact, there is no evidence to support this, what so ever, but rather a lot suggesting that it’s quite the opposite.
I really hope that the companies with long track records of producing high quality music production software isn’t going to get stuck “waiting to see” and suddenly find that the rest of the world has moved on, and they are too late to change course.
I’d rather use Cubase than Reaper or Bitwig, but with each new Windows update trying harder and harder to infect my computer with AI telemetry and auto-pilot like features, it’s becoming increasingly more clear that I’ll need to move away from this s**tinfested OS soon. It’s like each new update adds another layer of crap, adding to overall system latency, that needs 3rd party tools to clear it out. Without Winaero Tweaker, Windows would be absolutely useless.