Re: [LAU] Renoise - linux version ( soon !!)

On Sunday 20 January 2008 16:27, Dave Phillips wrote: Thanks Dave for the feedback, it'll be interesting to try it on different distros. It's nice to see that someone has taken a first step in porting an audio app to Linux, that was previously only available for Windows, or Mac. Yes you have to pay for the full version, but I don't think that there is anything inherently wrong with that. There are many nice synths that are available for Windows/Mac, and yes, they arn't cheap. I've tried demo's of many of them on XP, and also tried them under wine, but with limited success. Admittadly not recently, and perhaps the latest wine may give better results, but certainly if they were ported to Linux, it wouldn't be the hit and miss affair that it is, trying to get them to work under wine. I bought Making Waves (a step sequencer) some years ago, and was getting quite used to using it on XP, but never could get the demo version to run properly under wine. Locked up, using 100% CPU when trying to access my soundfiles, so as to load one of them. When first run it would create an .ini file in wine, and would play the demo ok, but would do nothing the next time I tried to run it, unless I deleted the .ini file, and then restarted it. Trying my paid for version under wine, and after consulting with the Making Waves folks about running it on Linux, they were prepared to provide me with the necessary code to enable it. The problem was that the code box is supposed to give you a set of numbers, then you give the Making Waves guys the numbers, and they give you the code to enter. All I got trying it on Linux under wine was a set of 0's in the code box, and couldn't activate my paid for version. Looking back at what I've just written, something comes to mind. We in the Linux world, and speaking personally, are used to being able to install as many instances of Hydrogen for example, on as many distros as we like. Not so when you have paid for a licence to use Renoise for example. Usually this on a one machine/os basis. Making Waves though were a bit liberal on this, and provided codes for my XP machine in England, and also for my XP machine in France, but that is some time ago. I appreciate that these software providers want to protect their interests, and don't want to be, as it were, ripped off, but just wonder how they might deal with the Linux world of many different distros, and users who have paid the licence fee, but want to try the app on their different distros, to just see how it performs. Just a thought, and I suppose we'll just have to see how this pans out. Sunday afternoon, now evening ramblings. Nigel.