I've made some bad experiences with LinuxSampler. That is why I definitely need a commercial product. I tried Muto Symphonic Orchestra, but the iLok copy protection makes it incompatible to Linux. Markus James Stone schrieb:

On Friday 15 June 2007, Brett W. McCoy wrote: Is that becoming more common, that music software vendors abandon dongles? I found it hilarious that in the same issue of Keyboard with the feature on Linux audio, there was also an article on how great dongles and Internet activation were because they make all this wonderful proprietary software possible. It was like I'd traveled back in time to 1994 or something. Rob

Def. nothing like that for the Garritan gig library. I think that the Edirol Orchestral VSTi may work under Linux, but again it is expensive, and secondly, I am not too keen on running non-native stuff under Linux 'cos it could break without warning with a Wine update or something, and I am not convinced the performance is as good as if it was running on Windows. I have not had any problems with LS for piano, drum and double-bass gig files.. I was not aware any copy protection existed for pure gig files, but I stand corrected. James On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:28:30PM +0200, Markus Herhoffer wrote:

I guess your best bet is to explain your situation to the company, and see if they are willing to sell you a copy on the understanding that you will get a refund if it doesn't work. James On 6/21/07, Markus Herhoffer <markus(a)herhoffer.net> wrote:

Hi. I asked the same question from LinuxSampler developers list, as they mentioned on their project page having received some libraries from Garritan for developing purposes. One developer replied that he hasn't tried it in a while and asked for other developers if they had any experiences, but nobody replied (yet). We could ask him to test it again, if possible, since I'm also interested in those orchestral libraries. Tommi