[linux-audio-user] Steinberg The Grand

[Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen]

Carl Hetherington:
> > If the audio thread gets killed by the watchdog, there is something
> > serious wrong. Which watchdog, vstserver's or jack's watchdog? Does 
> > your machine freeze in ten seconds before the audio thread gets 
> > killed?
> 
> vstserver's, I believe.  There's the message about the audio thread
> taking 10 seconds and being killed; the audio disappears during those 
> ten seconds.

Seems like you are out of luck. Last thing to try is to start
the vstserver with the --nonrealtime option to see if it can
be the watchdog that is screwing things up. But I doubt it.

> > > If so, what could be different about the audio code's environment
> > > on Linux compared to windows? Any suggestions on how I can  
> > > investigate the problem?
> >
> > If the non-audio part of your plugin behaves strange, everything can
> > happen (write wrong bits to memory used by the audio-part for example),
> > so...
> 
> I guess you're right.  Oh well.  Is there anything sensible I can do to
> investigate the problem?

You can try to complain to the author(s) of the plugin, and tell them that 
it does not work under wine...

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