18 Sep
2007
18 Sep
'07
9:29 a.m.
Marco Milanesi wrote:
By following LAD/LAU lists, I see that you are using
pure 64bit
arch, could you confirm that VSTs with 32 bit wine works?
Hi Marco,
I've cc'd this response to the lists because I want to clarify the
situation for all who are interested.
The short answer is, "Yes".
The longer answer is "Yes, with some very specific caveats." Wine can be
compiled as a 32-bit binary for running in a pure 64-bit system. I'm
running such an arrangement now, with backport packages of Wine and
libwine 0.9.34 (Debian, 64 Studio). However, IIRC 64 Studio already has
more recent packages available.
The biggest problem is latency. In this scenario it's not possible to
use the JACK/wineasio combination, so you'll end up using either the OSS
or ALSA sound system for Wine (select in winecfg). It may be possible to
lower latency with either of those drivers, but I've not worked at it.
So far I've only tested Reaper with some VST plugs. It worked, but I
wouldn't try using it as a production environment. I haven't yet tested
any other hosts.
And just to be clear: At this time I would advise anyone who wants to
run VST plugins in production to do so with either JAD or 32-bit 64
Studio. They support the wineasio driver, thus greatly improving the
latency numbers.
Best,
dp