I bought Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro today. The product page does not state, anywhere visible at point of sale, that Linux support has been removed from version 2. Version 1 supported Linux. This is misleading marketing, and I have requested a refund.
I want to be on record about why this matters past my own wallet.
You did not fail to ship Linux. You shipped it once, in version 1, and then actively chose to drop it. That is a deliberate decision to push every existing Linux customer onto Windows or macOS. In 2026, that decision is not technically neutral. It is politically and legally loaded, and it forces a problem onto your professional users that they cannot solve at the application layer.
Windows 11 ships with mandatory Microsoft accounts, mandatory telemetry, and Recall, which screenshots the user’s desktop on a continuous basis and indexes it locally with a path to cloud sync. macOS is comparable in defaults and equally bound to a US vendor. Both
operating systems are subject to the US CLOUD Act, which permits US authorities to compel disclosure of data held by US providers regardless of where that data physically lives. The Schrems II ruling and Article 48 GDPR make clear that this is not compatible with EU data
protection law when professional users handle personal or client-confidential data. NIS2 sharpens the same point for any business in scope. This is not a hypothetical. This is enforceable EU law against which Windows and macOS are, at best, an unresolved problem.
I work in game localization. I handle pre-release scripts, unannounced titles, and creative IP under NDA from publishers who do not want their material on US-administered infrastructure. The way I make that NDA defensible is by running my workstation on Linux. By removing Linux from version 2, you have removed Synthesizer V from the set of tools I am allowed to use. That is not a personal quirk. That is the structural position of any serious EU professional who has thought about the question.
I tested Wine 9.21 with DXVK as a goodwill effort before asking for the refund. The UI eventually rendered. The login flow then fails silently, with no observable Wine API activity on the Log In click. There is no working unofficial path. The product is unusable for me.
Dreamtonics is a Japanese company. You are not yourselves subject to the CLOUD Act. But by choosing Microsoft and Apple as your only delivery platforms, you have made every European user a hostage to it. The market segment you are walking away from is not the marginal
hobbyist. It is the EU professional with sovereignty obligations, and that segment is growing, not shrinking. Every European government IT strategy I can find published in the last eighteen months points in the opposite direction from yours.
Reinstate the Linux build. Or be honest at point of sale that version 2 is a Windows and Mac product, so users like me do not have to discover this after payment.