An Introduction to Some New Options : AVL-MXE is somewhat unique compared to its contemporaries in that it offers the choice of trying Commercial software demos within the base Operating System. Over the years good relationships with Vendors have been formed and have provided the opportunity to showcase both Open-Source excellence and innovative Commercial Audio choices. Currently AVL-MXE provides the Demo version of Harrison Mixbus 32C which brings the authentic sound of the famous Harrison hardware consoles into a powerful DAW based on Ardour. Harrison Mixbus 32C also comes with all of Harrison’s Audio Plugin Demos (both XT and AVA) for you to evaluate as well. Brand new for the first release of AVL-MXE is the addition of the very popular Reaper DAW. Reaper for Windows has been known to Linux users for years for it’s functionality with Wine but in the past couple of years the project has been producing ‘native Linux builds. On top of these DAWs (and also new to AVL-MXE 2020) are additional versatile Audio plugin choices with Demos provided by Applied Computer Music Technologies, Auburn Sounds, Cut Through Recordings and OvertoneDSP (64bit AVL-MXE only).
Purchasing and Registering the Demos : All of the Commercial Demos are limited in some way and are not fully functional until they are purchased and registered. The limitation methods vary from not all options being available, dropouts in sound, generated noises at certain intervals etc. Each Vendor has their own method of handling purchasing and registration as well. Harrison, Applied Music Technologies and OvertoneDSP all provide a license text file upon purchase that can be copied and pasted in the Users home folder. Once this text file is present the software will find it the next time it is launched and will appear as registered and be fully functional. With this method there is no need to remove the demos and replace them you can leave them installed as they are and merely add the text key. In the case of Reaper you can evaluate it unlicensed for 60 days after which time you are expected to purchase a license and register it, the version that comes on the AVL-MXE ISO has its binary folder wrapped in a Debian Package so it can be uninstalled with usual Debian Package tools, if you wish to use a newer version of Reaper simply uninstall the ‘reaper6-linux’ package with Synaptic and download and extract the usual Reaper Linux bundle wherever you like and use it from there.
Audio Assault, Auburn Sounds and Cut Through Recordings employ a different system where the User is given a special private download URL in an email once purchase and payment are completed and the User then downloads replacement Plugins which are fully functional. For this method it is necessary for the User to manually remove the installed demos using either Synaptic Package Manager or ‘dpkg’ command (shown below) and then install the replacement plugins as instructed by the individual Vendor. To remove Audio Assault, Auburn Sounds or Cut Through Recordings Demo versions from your system you can either search for ‘audioassault-demo-plugins’, ‘auburnsounds-demo-plugins’ or ‘ctrecordingsdemo-plugins’ etc.in Synaptic, then remove them or alternately open a Root Terminal and issue this command as an example: dpkg -r auburnsounds-demo-plugins Detailed information on installing the replacement Plugins can be found at the Vendors respective websites linked at the beginning of this section. In most cases it is suggested to create a ‘.vst’ folder in the User’s home folder for Linux VST2 Plugins and a ‘.lv2’ folder for LV2 Plugins and copy your Registered versions there. *NOTE – Both Ardour and Harrison Mixbus (the default DAW Applications included in AVL-MXE) do not automatically search for Plugins in the User’s home so these folders must be added to the Plugin search paths manually in Ardour and Mixbus. Plugin search paths can be edited in the ‘Edit’-→’Preferences’-→’Plugins’-→’VST’ menus of both Ardour and Mixbus. Hey Wait! Not For Me! : With the knowledge that not everyone necessarily wants to have or purchase Commercial Software and that some may prefer for ideological reasons to use only Open-Source applications you can of course choose remove the Commercial Demos from AVL-MXE. For this reason removing all of the Audio Demoware from AVL-MXE is as easy as a click in the Menu!
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