Pirated Ableton on Linux (or BitWig?) (lemmy.ml)

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Hello fellow pirates! I made the switch to Linux almost a year ago and i really really really miss producing music. I honestly don't want to bother with Ardour. Bitwig can't be pirated afaik and my 4-Track license is just way too limiting for serious production. I really miss Ableton but i don't really want to dualboot if there's a way around it.

I was able to install Ableton and it works, but the crack doesn't work due to some hardware-id shenanigans.

Has anyone else tried this? What options do i have? (Winboat, Wine, VMStudio etc.) Or shouldn't i even bother and just bite the bullet and dualboot?

Alternatively: Is there a way to pirate a recent version of BitWig?

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[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

I recently went down that same rabbit hole.

I ended up buying Bitwig Producer and I'm running it in an Arch install.

I tried a number of different distros which all caused different headaches. Arch ended up being the best fit for my Linux audio needs and was way easier to set up than Lubuntu, Debian, PopOS.

With the right setup, latency is better than I was getting in Ableton on Windows and Mac. I can even record live audio without any perceivable latency.

Bitwig made me realize how convoluted and stupid Ableton's UI is. The team behind Bitwig holds good values, so I felt they deserved my money. However I have seen torrents available for it. I suggest you try a 30 day trial first that way you can check if you even like Bitwig before going through the hassle of getting a pirated version working.

My current pain point is Serum in Wine has GUI rendering issues making it unusable. Luckily Vital for Linux works perfectly.

Fabfilter plugins work with some minor tweaks.

My Waves license is on an ilok, which I know doesn't work in Wine. So eventually I'll pirate the cracked version and try that.

So far I'm really happy with the setup. Another benefit of Linux audio over Windows or Mac is the routing abilities. I can route any program as an input, allowing me to stream YouTube or Spotify into Bitwig so I can play live music over the songs without having to download them first or rig up some weird aux cable nonsense.