3 Jan
2005
3 Jan
'05
8:57 p.m.
well, these are exciting enough for me at the moment,
but i strongly
encourage people to upgrade their wine installations and start testing
these programs and others - when dedicated windows users start hearing
of their favourite audio apps working in linux, we'll start to see a LOT
more people here, and a LOT more heads to use for our open source sound
software (there are lots already, but the more the merrier). plus, some
of these programs rock.
just in case you have troubles replicating these results, here is my
pathetically haphazard wine cfg file:
http://www.machinehasnoagenda.com/images/config
maybe one day soon, we could organise a group of us to organise a
structured crew of testers/debuggers/advocates to get a specified set of
programs working with wine ... wavelab and fruityloops look promising
because they already work to some degree, and if fully working, they
would really provide access to ALL the audio possibilities of windows on
linux (wavelab with its comprehensive audio processing/editing and
fruityloops with it's sequencing/vst-midi interface).
anyway, hope everyone can get something out of this :)
shayne
This would be good but I have to ponder this point;
The purpose of Linux audio and it's native applications was to create an
open source alternative, that equals and in many cases exceeds the
proprietary software world was it not? So at what point should one draw
the line in the sand? Running Windows applications on a simulated Windows
software platform does not differ much from running it on a Windows box
does it? It certainly does not keep motivation out there for those
starving developers devoting their time free to writing code for new
and/or improved native Linux apps.
Don't get me wrong here....I luv my VST's as much as the next guy and I
use them on Linux a lot...but so far, only for things I cannot get by way
of a native Linux application.
</moral conscience> :)
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