Question

Any version of Studio One (2 or 3) would do but PLEASE could you compile a native Linux version. No you don't need to officially support it. Reaper does it and so should you. You guys have the best DAW in the industry and the ones on Linux sucks big time, even Ardour.

Just compile a version and let us do the rest! Or release V2 as open source for the Linux community or something. A lot of us are going to move away from Windows in the future (appstore apps only on Windows S rings a bell?) so other OS alternatives would be really cool.

Come on guys!! Just do it! You have the brain power to do it. No support required!

Erick P. - Canada.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I moved from Windows to linux since about two years ago. Currently I use the deeping distribution which has proved stability, good support (frequent updates) and beautiful appearance, even better than elementary os. My experience with Deeping has been much better than with Windows.

I invite you to consider to release your software and hardware for linux users. As I know, more a more people are moving to linux. If you do it, a lot musicians will love Presonus for being the first in the audio industry to support linux.

Answer 3

The votes for this question should be merged with http://answers.presonus.com/18672/will-you-guys-planing-to-use-a-platform-like-linux-in-a-future?show=18672#q18672 as it is the same feature request.

Answer 4

Hey there PreSonus Team and Developers

Thank you a lot for StudioOne! Thank you for your work and time you guys put into it. Your program really rocks everything perfectly together and i, as a long time producer, really appreciate it. Especially since the latest update. :D

After i started using S1 i was pretty amazed, so i started to promote it around my Friends. More than just a few of them switched now from Cubase, Logic, Ardour and even from Protools to S1. Long story short: EVERY single one of them is very happy and promote it further to there friends.

Some of us are at a point, where we want to leave microsoft and apple products behind us. Mainly due to the privacy and force-update issues those companies offer. We would therefore be very very very greatful to see a Linux Version of S1 3.5. :)

I could imagine, that this would give you an advantage in the producer- and sound engineer- market anyway. I can see more and more people being annoyed by the new "service concepts" of microsoft and apple. Privacy issues, incompability problems and incredibly stupid updates are making people look around for an alternative NOW. The alternative is and will be Linux.

Enough said for now. You guys are great, your DAW is really awesome and Linux support would be a benefit for everyone out here. :)

We wish you all the best!

Greetings Josh  :)

Answer 5

I would ALSO like to see a Linux version of Studio One. Reaper and Bitwig are the major proprietary DAWs on Linux, besides Ardour and QTractor, LMMS, etc...

Linux is just a better more stable platform than either Windows or MacOS, given both of their penchants for dragging users by the nose through constant upgrades that are actually downgrades (like the removals of ports that audio interfaces rely upon, for example, like changing the UI's) and the ability to provide long-term stable support without the wily commercial political "moves" both platforms play upon their co-vending ecosystem. (Which should be obvious to Presonus hardware and driver folks :D )

The future belongs to Linux, already. I would go so far as to suggest building your own Linux music computers, as you already make the DAW software as well as the audio interfaces. Surely you could choose good chipsets to accompany your audio interfaces etc...

Answer 6

I am also switching to linux, because windows is planning on make the OS a rent by the month system.  They will be forcing people to pay every month just to use windows, and I'm not down for that.  So please make it S1 Linux compatible.  S1 was more DAW of choice and I spend a lot of time with it.

Answer 7

I really would like to see native support for Linux as well! Also out of the box drivers for all your audio interfaces.

Currently I will not buy Presonus because of this reason. I'm a Linux user only.

Answer 8

Understood there are issues with certain features being implemented in Linux. My grasp is not very technical but I think I understand that some aspects of the code are essentially 'engines' that have to work within the broader framework of the Studio One DAW and these are to a greater or lesser extent 'out sourced' and so not within Presonus' direct control.

The answer to this issue has to be to release an older version of Studio One, maybe even a limited version, as open source, and see what the FOSS community does with it.

If you watch studio tours on You Tube you will see that 99.99% of the guys currently running Pro Tools are doing so on Macs , , , at least that's what I see. And how old are those Macs? They keep going because of UAD and AVID based CPU assists to run the plugins. When is the next upgradeable, serviceable Mac tower coming? No one knows but its a sadly sure bet that it will sacrifice practical functionality for the sake of some bizarre aesthetic dreamed up by Apple marketing! Soldered RAM and HD/SSD's anyone?

The point is that I and a lot of other guys currently running older Mac towers or hackintoshes would jump to Linux if there was a decent alternative DAW - and no Reaper and Ardour aren't it - for me even a cut down version of Studio One would be wonderful. Look five years ahead and recognise that Apple have no real interest in supporting professionally creative people as used to be the case even 10 years back. Open source OS's are that future - that's why MS and IBM have spent millions investing in it. Please Presonus look to the future of what will be the obvious choice of OS for people wanting no nonsense reliability in their computer because for many of us a computer and its OS is just the tool that runs our DAW, we dont care what it is, so long as it works and does not interfere with recording, mixing and producing music.

Answer 9

If Linux is the swimming pool, studio one would be the water.

And here I am waiting to jump in.

Answer 10

No disrespect to Mac or PC, but Mac is pricey IMHO and although Win10 has been good over-all it crashes a lot (I've been doing this forever and invested a lot in what should be a stable PC). I love using 3rd party plugs like Waves and Native Instruments etc., but if Studio One was available on Linux I would gratefully rebuild my studio around it. The pro version has everything I need to compose. I'd likely keep an iMac or 2nd PC in the studio to send/return to plugins that don't work natively in Linux, but that's not much different than the days of outboard gear, plus would be very easy with Pipeline XT  ;)

Answer 11

Studio One is the only reason I keep windows installed on my home machines. I really enjoy Studio One and it would be a shame to waste the money I've spent, but my dislike of windows is that much more. I'm willing to just consider it money gone if I have to switch to something else aside from Studio One.

I really hope we can have an officially supported Linux build of Studio One

Answer 12

I would really like this as well. The only reason I even Have a windows partition is to access my DAW's I can get ableton and reason installed on linux. I would love to be able to get studio one as well, especially consideringmy preamp is an Audiobox USB and works most seamlessly with studio one

Answer 13

Presonus gives software, when you buy hardware from them. I think that is a very good business model, however, presonus should think about, when focussing on good hardware, to use swarm free intelligence for their software products.  If presonus would make Studio One opensource, a huge community would boost this application as thee killer application, where presonus stays, when smart, the main controller of that community. Presonus could use that free potential to produce even better hardware, than dealing with hard and software. Many companies are afraid to go that step. I may remind on the company who produced the wrt54g wlan router using a linux kernel. Finally, due to GPL, they were forced by curt to release the source code. The result: A big community of developers formed to make many things possible with the device and it became a product that did sell excellently, just because of it. But instead of continuing that way to make good hardware, they went back to commercial software and the result was clear. Presonus, maybe you can learn from it!

Answer 14

This sounds like a great idea to me!

I think that Linux will become increasingly more popular in the years to come. It's already happening right now as gaming on Linux becomes better each day. When people look at switching to Linux for audio production there aren't a lot of exciting DAWs out there. So I think that if PreSonus were to offer Linux support they would benefit greatly from it and gain a lot of new users. I think a lot of people who are tired of Apple's iron fist and Microsoft's slow and outdated OS will switch to Linux soon. (My two cents).

Answer 15

I would also like to see native Linux versions, possibly just supporting one distribution of your choice to make everything easier, say Ubuntu. I would love this as well.

Answer 16

Hi,

I agree with other users here, I'm using Studio One 3 on Windows but I'm sick of this OS and Studio One is the last software that keeps me from moving to Linux... If you port the next versions of Studio One on Linux, I'll purchase the upgrade for sure. Linux is more and more used and I guess you could get some benefits being among the firsts to have a DAW on this platform.

Please consider it. Thank you

Answer 17

I am a frustrated Mac user and I am also thinking of moving to Linux. I voted and highly support this idea.

Please Presonus, do it!

Answer 18

Hi Presonus Team,

I push that great idea as well. Recently i switched from Windows to Linux. Some of points were already mentioned here. But additionally i want to point out some other, very important aspects. Windows is really not that bad, but more and more it becomes clear, that they want to sell a product for the masses which often comes with bloatware and slowdowns. Power users notice very fast, that this OS is mainly build for office or gaming but even in this regard it does not uses the hardware in the most efficient way. Still there seem to be a lot of problems with low latency and performance. The open source scene is developing many tools to help each other to get around them. Even it is recommended, to use windows server versions instead. But then other problems come in.

What we musicians need, is a secure, fast, efficient, exact and powerful underlying OS, which serves the DAW in the best way, but does not comes in your way and makes you problems. I don't know, how much times i had to reinstall and repair something. The difference from windows 7 to windows 10 is insane in terms of the background activity. There are so many applications and activities in the background which are taking away precious resources for the DAW. In the worst cases they can cause stutters and the like, which is of course unacceptable. Just think of a LAN scenario, where the DAW uses an orchester and its components are distributed on several computers to balance the workload and work together.

To bring it to the point. The Linux Kernel esspecially the low latency one meets the demands for professional music production. It is small-print, efficient, fast and very powerful. The internet of things, servers, routers, robots, super computers and industrial machines use this OS and even smartphones. It is the most spreaded and versatile OS in the world but still rare on desktop computers. And many people guess, it is simply because games are more established on windows computers. Well if people want to stick to windows, so be it.
But please consider Linux as a fit platform, because the possibilites are versatile and can be highly customized. There are Studio distributions set up and fine tuned for professional music produtions in particular. I would like to see, what PreSonus developers are capable to achieve on the Linux platforms. And don't worry because of dependencies. There are great, relatively new package managers called AppImage and Flatpak. They are cross-distribution compatible and bring the needed files with them in their own folder.

Check it out and Thank You for giving an ear to your fans.

Answer 19

That a massive +1 from us

Answer 20

I would like to use Studo One, but I just can't because of lack of Linux version

Answer 21

Needed to register to vote, at one glimpse I was lazy but then i thought, fahk it ! i want it on Linux!!! very badly!!!

Answer 22

To my surprise I am generally very happy with S1 on windows 10 but  I would like Studio One on linux for this very practical reason.

Windows ASIO can only run one audio interface.

My old mac mini runs  multiple audio devices well  but I will  not be buying a new mac..... ever..

Linux can run multiple audio interfaces very well.

Surely that is a great reason to port !!!!

Answer 23

Hey guys,

After having asked that question for years now and seeing that it is simply not in Presonus plans to do any of this, I finally switched to Reaper full time and not regretting any minute of it.

Reaper is just more flexible, customizable, performant and cheaper.  Just check all the videos on Reaper's site if you're not convinced.

I'm not putting down Presonus here, just stating the fact that after seeing everything it can do (and doing some real projects with it) I never looked back.

You should all give it a try.

Cheers,

Erick P.

Answer 24

If Studio One 4 was compatible with Linux, I would pay for a pro copy, and I would finally be able to leave windows.

Answer 25

I am all for Linux version.  I will never go back to Winblows.

Answer 26

Dear PreSonus,

The 5th version of our favourite Studio One DAW is out and we are still (im)patiently waiting for an official Linux version. As many have already mentioned, the only thing still keeping some of us on other operating systems is because the best digital audio workstation (Studio One) is still not yet available on Linux.

We are counting on you to make this dream a reality.

All the best!

Answer 27

Please make a linux compatible version. I am not buying S1v5 just because of this incompatibility! Please do!

I'll definitely pay an extra-price to have it!

thank you,

Paolo

Answer 28

While I definitely appreciate porting more Audio Software and even good DAWs to LInux, that will be a long-lasting task to do even vor Presonus. So we should be fair and not expect to have a perfectly working Linux version on next Monday ;)

Meanwhile, those of you who are looking for a stable and reasonable featured DAW on Linux for now may have a Look on http://www.ardour.org/ which gives a full featured Multitrack Recording and MIDI DAW which should work with any USB Class compliant Audio Interface and DAW Controller Hardware and as far as i know works basically well with Presonus Hardware, too. Anyone who knows ProTools or Harrison Mix Bus will feel familiar after a short period of time with that.

Beware: the freely downloadable Binaries  are crippled a little bit (not saving plugin settings!) - so if you want to use that for production purposes, you either have to build it from source yourself (which is a lot of fumbling around with compilers and libraries) or download a full-featured binary for any supported plattform after doing a fair donation to the developers (those of you who can not do not want to afford that should know even donating $0,01 will work for that).

Maybe it would be a good thing for Presonus to have intense Contact to some Ardour developers and make it have better support for Presonus Plugins, DAW Controller features and AVB Integration. Ardour could even become some kind of alternative Controller UI for Presonus Mixers. BTW you can have a chat with some of the key developers on #ardour in ircnet.

Answer 29

+1 for Linux, if you want me to buy another update.

PreSonus can be the first real DAW to the party or the last one. The first will make more money than the others, and likely retain users for years, users who will buy updates. S1's notation + vst + pianoroll... even without most other features, those 3 things would get millions of views, reviews, and discussions started from the Linux community, because S1 is lightyears ahead of everyone else.

The time has come. Join us, and we will rule the galaxy together!!!

Answer 30

This would be legendary, If S1 will go linux I think that most of their users will jump on it! +1 from me!

Answer 31

Hi!
I'm IT professional and a musician. I play bass, guitar and do vocals as well as some mixing/mastering.
I've been trying out your product on windows and osx and it is undisputedly is the best on the market so I'm planning getting one with atom sq but there is one thing that bothers me

Lately I've used Windows 10 (asus rog flow x13), Osx (2015 mac book pro) and linux (KDE, laptop core i7 8 gen, 16 ram) with following setup:

onboard audio
********* UMC404hd
Rode NT usb mini (which is 48khz usb inteface mic so it causes switching problems)

OSX:

Updates suck. You just wake up one day to find out broken mix because OSX took the liberty to implement some required to run API calls or drop 32bit support.
Imagine you going on stage and one update can beak your performance. Not everyone render tracks ahead
BTW: how's M1 support going? You know what I mean

Windows 10:

It's that same experience we had since we first seen the miracle of a Personal Computer:
It's magic.
Things never repeat themself. It's impossible to reproduce or easily get logs.
We don't understand how computer works - we're not supposed to. it's magic. if thing doesn't work - reboot, reinstall or forget

What can be seen as unpredictable magic becomes hell for pro user. Like soundcard or ASIO driver just freezing on stage... Hell for a user, developer, tester, product owner.
But... You just get used to it - better than nothing
And there's no one audio driver for you sound card. every soundcard is a blackbox.

Linux:

Things are hard to setup. Really. Wine is not windows. native DAW totally lack nice Studio One UX. plugins missing.

Situation is dire but people are pushing thorogh. Things are done slowly.
We say wayland will save video and touch input, PipeWire will save audio. It may take a year or ten.
It depends. It depends on who takes a lead and some DAW's did - see https://www.slant.co/topics/6067/~daws-for-linux
I see people over youtube using linux:
https://www.youtube.com/user/unfa00 (about 16k subs see  )

Found out that I've had less OS/driver related problems on linux. It's far less messy then others. I hope Pipewire fixes things.
I know it's huge feature to support. I know it takes time. But linux community grows. Even Linus Tech tips promoting it from time to time like this 
You cannot measure how many people would switch or how many new clients will be there.
You have abstraction layer anyway or you will be by the end or apple M1 ARM support.
Why not to do linux after that? There's shortage of nice plugins there - you'll sell a lot.

I would totally buy Studio One Professional the day it has a linux version. Hell I would pay a twice the price.
I just want things simple - read logs, google them, send them over to someone else in case of a problem. 

I just feel that linux is a better way to go. Software design wise. and it lingers into UX.

It's so easy to get used to SO. I want those built-in plugins on linux. I want that nice interface.

Please help us all to buy your products

Answer 32

There is two ways to solve this issue only with hardware and presonus as far as i know...

configure Jack + plug in your interface

Run wine + configure ASIO for your distribution

What we are xpecting is a FUNCIONAL version of STUDIO ONE in linux...

Each Day and every new year since I bought the first presonus firepod and then FP10 i was hoping that...

Maybe we want to have that not for hacking the code, we want to feel the power of stability running the most beautiful DAW on an OS that give us the stability to run on it anything

Answer 33

mac is now so expensive and at the same time windows feels insecure and unstable.

now audiogridder like programs gives VST/AU/VSTi server over iP.

please check this site  audiogridder.com

so its it is so easy to access all vst au vsti plugins over LAN....im using and its super cool.

waiting for a S1 linux version

please

Answer 34

I would ALSO like to see a Linux version of Studio One. I like Ubuntu and want to create music on this system.

Answer 35

Man I hope they do this. I would love to see a release for Linux. And I’m on max os and apple silicon. But Mac seems to be a highway of trouble at times, I know my setup won’t last long, every time there is a new Mac OS release things break an don’t work, windows I don’t like, don’t trust them either, Linux seems like a good foundation for a lot of users.

Generally Linux will never be outdated as a os because it’s very accessible.

Answer 36

I'm 101% supporting this! But... is this going to happen?

Presonus... you have my word in supporting you always if you support Linux, there's some big DAW jumping in Linux audio train and it's going very well, I always try to support every company who gave us and Linux narive version so please consider this idea, you would not regret.

Answer 37

Hi, Presonus. Thanks for the linux version Studio one! We have been waiting for it for a very long time and have waited. But not everyone uses deb-based Linux distributions. For example, I use Fedora Linux in production, a distribution based on RPM. I kindly ask you to collect the Studio One RPM package. Once again, thank you very much for listening to us, Linux users! Thanks!