Yesterday I finally tried the native Linux port of REAPER and posted the following reports to the Cockos forum at <a class="postlink" href="http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=83324">http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=83324</a> so I thought everyone here would be interested too.<br>
<br>- danboid&#39;s 1st post to REAPER WDL dev thread -<br><br>It
 appears to me there was a brief resurgence of activity on the Linux 
Swell port in December but little if anything has happened since? I hope
 I&#39;m wrong!<br><br>I couldn&#39;t believe it when I discovered earlier today
 that there has been some sort of rudimentary native Linux port of 
REAPER on LoL since June 2011! I&#39;ve long known REAPER was supported and 
ran well under wine but I have a big issue with depending upon wine - I 
don&#39;t really like using REAPER that way because I&#39;m all too aware of the
 negative impact the wine layer has on (JACK) performance and stability.
 I only heard about the Linux native port in late December when my 
current band PistonFunkMachine used it to record our debut album.<br><br>For
 yet another unknown reason, it was only today that I was inspired to 
find out where the Swell port is up to and if possible give it a go 
myself. Although it seems to still be practically unusable right now, I 
was thrilled to see REAPER start up successfully and let me use most of 
the interface. This was when using the libswell within 
libSwell-x86_64-debian-wheezy-gtk3.tar.xz running under 64bit KX Studio 
12.04.2.<br><br>REAPER loads and you can add tracks and browse through 
the menus here but I realised I wasn&#39;t going to get much further when I 
discovered that the open/save file windows don&#39;t appear when you select 
either option and the same goes for the plugin window. It doesn&#39;t appear
 here!<br><br>I compiled Swell from git but had much less success. REAPER failed to start at all and just barfed:<br><br>./reaper: symbol lookup error: /home/dan/src/reaper_linux_x86_64/REAPER/libSwell.so: undefined symbol: gdk_init_check<br>
<br>So,
 I may not be able to enjoy REAPER under my OS of choice properly just 
yet but I&#39;ll be trying some of REAPERS VST plugins under qtractor soon. 
When I have I&#39;ll report back here with the plugin results.<br><br>I also spotted a small error in:<br><br><a class="postlink" href="http://www.landoleet.org/dev/libSwell-roll-your-own.txt">http://www.landoleet.org/dev/libSwell-roll-your-own.txt</a><br>
<br>It says:<br><br>apt-get install build-essentials libgtk-3-dev<br><br>but the package name is actually build-essential without the &#39;s&#39;. Total nitpick, I realise - especially at this stage!<br><br>I&#39;m
 hoping Bitwig and Ardour 3.0 will give reason for more LinuxVST plugin 
ports in the run up to LinREAPER. I&#39;ll certainly be buying REAPER as 
soon as the Linux port works! <br><br>- Today&#39;s update re: plugins -<br><br>I
 have tried a few of the REAPER VST FX under qtractor but unfortunately 
all I get is a stream of various &#39;SWELL API not found&#39; errors.<br><br>I 
copied libswell (the binary from LoL that lets me start REAPER) into 
/usr/lib as well as my vst plugins dir but that didn&#39;t help.