[LAU] ableton live through wine

Niklas Klügel niklas.kluegel at mytum.de
Sun Oct 28 20:49:16 EDT 2007


Thomas Kuther wrote:
> On Do, 25.10.07 01:45 Niklas Klügel <niklas.kluegel at mytum.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> Thomas Kuther wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mi, 24.10.07 10:51 "Peter Hartmann" <ascensiontech at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> The newer wine almost gets it on my system.  The main problem is
>>>> that it doesn't properly draw the preferences dialog.  It just
>>>> smears what's underneath it in a box, if that makes any sense.  If
>>>> anyone has a fix, do tell!  I've tried all manor of graphics and
>>>> windowing options.
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>> On 10/24/07, Atte André Jensen <atte.jensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone here have any experience with running ableton live
>>>>> through wine? Some googling suggests it might be possible, but I'd
>>>>> like to know from people with hands on experience...
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> peace, love & harmony
>>>>> Atte
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>> Wow, I didn't even get that far :)
>>> But last time I tried was short after the WineASIO hype with
>>> wine-0.9.3x something.
>>>
>>> Will try again with latest wine and wineasio.
>>>   
>>>       
>> to run ableton (6.something) you need to disable sound (alsa or jack, 
>> might work with oss).
>> which doesnt make much sense. anyhow, it is better to use virtualbox
>> and run it from there. you might map some usb devices to reroute midi
>> from windows to
>> linux. on the other hand one might be tempted to write a backend for
>> the virtualbox AC97 "device" to use jack (could be around one weekend
>> of hacking).
>> for virtualbox you should disable all the directdraw acceleration of 
>> your virtualbox-gfx
>> adaptor (not the vesa one), because ableton has some issues with 
>> refreshing otherwise.
>>
>> so long...
>> Niklas
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Did you try with wineasio driver?
> http://people.jacklab.net/edogawa/files/wineasio/wineasio-0.5.tar.gz
>
> Can't find my ableton disk currently :/
>   
>   
yeah, it was utterly bogus. it didnt even start.
i personally think that the virtualbox approach is the simpler
and more useful one.


so long...
Niklas



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