I installed a copy of Ubuntu Studio on a spare machine a couple of years ago. I had come from Windows and Reaper and was used to one app where everything was controlled by the app. I was relatively new to Linux but kind of new my way around. But I found the principal of separate applications talking to each other a compelling idea, but in practice totally frustrating! I had VSTs I wanted to use and I got some to work though I don't remember how, but many synths just wanted to act alone via communication. Has anyone done anything to make all that less of a headache? Or was I doing it wrong?

Not suggesting this is any fault of Ardour's.