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I do use Wine (and Steam with it's various levels of Windows API calling), and I am happy about this. Sure, it will create some issues during the first stages

by wtdata 7y ago

I do use Wine (and Steam with it's various levels of Windows API calling), and I am happy about this. Sure, it will create some issues during the first stages of this migration, but, more than once, I botched my system in the past with the needed i386 libraries (it didn't happen lately, can't tell if because I finally got my head around it of because they improved the tooling). Still, in the end, we will all have a "cleaner" system. Either because they migrate parts of the Windows calling to 64bit or because they will keep everything neatly in containers, or, probably, due to a mix of both. But it's high time we improve the current state of these tools. P.S.: Still trying to get WINASIO to work properly with Wine using one of the latest versions (I am trying to run Ableton in Wine, but the latency is just too high). If anyone has experience doing this, any tips would be apreciated.

holy_city 7y ago
I think even if you got the drivers working you'd have too much latency. You need the PREEMPT_RT kernel patch to get reliably low latency. You can also try Bitwig, it has native Ubuntu support and most feature parity with Ableton.
- wtdata 7y ago
  I tried the preemptive kernel and didn't make a difference. I also tried Bitwig and it's great, but I use a Push I. That creates an issue (Bitwig support for Push fails in 2 major points: note repeat, and delete functionality... and they keep making changes without adding something as simple as that to the devices API).
- james-mcelwain 7y ago
  I'm so happy that Bitwig is supporting Linux as a first class platform, but it's still unstable enough on Linux that I would never consider using Bitwig on Linux for, e.g., a live performance. I'm sure they consider crashes on Linux real bugs, so hopefully it's just a few more years of work to have a rock solid DAW on Linux. Super excited about the future of Bitwig.

by wtdata 7y ago

holy_city 7y ago

I think even if you got the drivers working you'd have too much latency. You need the PREEMPT_RT kernel patch to get reliably low latency. You can also try Bitwig, it has native Ubuntu support and most feature parity with Ableton.

wtdata 7y ago
I tried the preemptive kernel and didn't make a difference. I also tried Bitwig and it's great, but I use a Push I. That creates an issue (Bitwig support for Push fails in 2 major points: note repeat, and delete functionality... and they keep making changes without adding something as simple as that to the devices API).
james-mcelwain 7y ago
I'm so happy that Bitwig is supporting Linux as a first class platform, but it's still unstable enough on Linux that I would never consider using Bitwig on Linux for, e.g., a live performance. I'm sure they consider crashes on Linux real bugs, so hopefully it's just a few more years of work to have a rock solid DAW on Linux. Super excited about the future of Bitwig.