Anukari finally comes to Linux!

[u/emezeske]

https://anukari.com/blog/devlog/linux-gravity-turbulence-and-more

Anukari is a softsynth that I spent the last three and a half years building, which lets you build crazy physics contraptions in a virtual 3D world and then play them with MIDI as a plugin or in a standalone app.

During the Anukari beta period I had a number of people write me to request Linux support, and I promised that it would happen shortly after the 1.0 launch. I'm super happy to finally make good on that promise.

Anukari is commercial software (non-FOSS), so beyond this announcement for Linux support I won't post promotionally on this subreddit. But I've had a number of people in the Linux audio community tell me that it is noteworthy when a commercial project comes to Linux, since many ignore it.

I'm a long-time Linux desktop user, since around 2000 or so. I used it for audio software back in the 2000s and it was... pretty dang painful. It's come a long way. The pain has lessened, and the performance is incredible.

I think there's a lot of overlap between folks who like Anukari and folks who like Linux, since Anukari is very much a "do whatever you want" sandbox. It doesn't hold your hand, in the same way that Linux will let you do insane things to your system if you want.

I've been asked in the past why Anukari is not FOSS, given my background contributing to FOSS and Linux. My answer is, basically: I wanted to make a finished product, and I know myself well enough to know that when I open-source something, I only ever get to the 80% mark. The remaining 20% always turns out to be 10x as much work as the first 80% and I give up and say "contributions accepted" instead of finishing the thing. (Other people are different, and can produce completely polished FOSS. Not me! I will get distracted and move on.)

I am sure one day I will publish the Anukari source code, but I hope that the project is successful enough commercially to fund ongoing development for a long time before that happens.

Thanks for reading! If you find any of this interesting, I've linked to my blog where I've written for the last three years about the development of Anukari.