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One of my all-time favorite plugin makers, Soundtoys, is donating ALL SALES made today or tomorrow to the leading US organization dedicated to the civil rights of LGBTQIA+ people and everyone living with HIV.

Their plugins sound seriously great and are a joy to use. While they're not Linux native (yet!!), I've had good luck running them using Wine and yabridge.

synthtopia.com/content/2025/06

Synthtopia · Soundtoys Donating 100% Of Sales On June 25 & 26 To Supporting LGBTQIA+ Civil RightsCustomers who purchase any Soundtoys plug-in, bundle, or upgrade during the campaign period will help support Lambda Legal’s legal advocacy, public policy work, and impact litigation efforts across…

I'm in the early stages of adapting all my Live projects into Bitwig. It's great that Bitwig can just open them up directly and almost everything works. Of course, I am still on Live 9 without Max4Live. So not asking a lot of it. I compose almost entirely with 3rd party plugins. If the drum racks aren't proprietary Live racks, or there's no REX files, they are mostly translating 1-to-1.