For that matter, is anyone running Reaktor, Kontakt or Absynth under Linux? I'd love to get these working, but I don't know how. I can't even get Sonar working under wine.

Brad Fuller wrote: I would not be despondent about "Not getting Sonar to work under Wine". There were reports of like Cakewalk 9 working under wine. This is comparable to the HAL 2000 on Space Odesy 2001!! I don't think anyone has reported on Winhq about Sonar ever working. I too have attempted installing on known working versions of Wine that run vst's. I think the dxi and WDM driver stuff is one of the biggest problems. I think the vst page over there on Dave's site reports someone getting Kontakt and/ or Reaktor working??

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 12:36, Brad Fuller wrote: i've got absynth, vokator, b4, pro-52 working on the latest version of wine with jack_fst (unfortunately i have to enable "no memory lock" in qjackctl to get any to work). fm7.dll segfaults but the fm7.exe launches with no output available (i do remember being able to get sound out of the standalone at one stage, but maybe with different version of wine, and not very useful, cos you could only use the on-screen keyboard). i have been able to get the xpress keyboards version of fm7 working (along with the b4, pro-53 versions), albeit without being able to change any of the settings from the gui (so stuck with the default preset). absynth works beautifully, such a great sounding synth to have access to on linux ... also, you should make sure you have "Managed" = "N" in your wine config, otherwise it's impossible to enter serial codes ... ps - i've got a whole bunch of other vsti's working (i'll head on over to the vst compatibility page soon), such as plasticz, slayer2, t-racks plugin suite, edirol superquartet and orchestral, grm classic bundle etc

i've got absynth, vokator, b4, pro-52 working on the latest version of wine with jack_fst (unfortunately i have to enable "no memory lock" in qjackctl to get any to work). fm7.dll segfaults but the fm7.exe launches with no output available (i do remember being able to get sound out of the standalone at one stage, but maybe with different version of wine, and not very useful, cos you could only use the on-screen keyboard). i have been able to get the xpress keyboards version of fm7 working (along with the b4, pro-53 versions), albeit without being able to change any of the settings from the gui (so stuck with the default preset). absynth works beautifully, such a great sounding synth to have access to on linux ... also, you should make sure you have "Managed" = "N" in your wine config, otherwise it's impossible to enter serial codes ... ps - i've got a whole bunch of other vsti's working (i'll head on over to the vst compatibility page soon), such as plasticz, slayer2, t-racks plugin suite, edirol superquartet and orchestral, grm classic bundle etc shayne

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:27:01 -0500, Andres Cabrera <andres(a)geminiflux.com> wrote: Not a direct answer, but my copy of Battery requires that I revalidate with the CDROM quite often. (Every 2-3 uses.) On Windows I only had to do this on the first use. Clearly things do not work exactly the same. problems for Cedega. I intend to try the synths under Cedega in the next 2-3 weeks. $5/month if you become a subscriber (not required) and it plays Half-Life 2. - Mark

There was a thread sometime ago on the Sonar forum, where the possibility of running Sonar on Linux was addressed. Ron Kuper (Cakewalk's VP/Engineering) tried running it under wine, but reported Sonar won't run for now. It was also clear that it is not a priority for them, so it will probably take long before Sonar runs (if ever) on linux, especially since it so deeply interacts with WDM kernel streaming stuff. Andrés

On Sunday 12 December 2004 06:13 pm, Dave Phillips wrote: There's something you don't hear every day

Are you interested in a Casio VZ-8M? I was planning on cannibalizing it for the case, but it's a pretty groovy piece if you like FM.

Count me in on one who likes FM. You can do a lot with FM, even with 4 operators. We used the YM2151 - a Yamaha 4 operator FM chip -- in many of our games at Atari (from 1984 to maybe 1994) Using a single 1MHz 6502 to feed the YM2151 - only 8 monophonic channels; still a milestone in arcade sound. And I think most of them sound pretty good. A lot of experimenting to get interesting sounds... but ,that's the fun part. brad

I will jump in here to. My first major synth purchase was an SY-99, and I currently own an FS1-r and 2 TG-77's. Alas all 3 of them are collecting dust due to FM7 and a couple of custom PD patches I have built. But I am a serious FM junky. The crazy noises and squels I could get my TG77's to produce still makes me smile, particularly when you forced the oscillators into territory they didn't want to go and got once osc to alias its output, and then fed the aliased output into a new oscilator, thats still something I have had a heard time reproducing with software. I suppose I should dig them out of storage. m. On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:39:32 -0800, Brad Fuller <brad(a)sonaural.com> wrote: > Count me in on one who likes FM. You can do a lot with FM, even with 4 > operators. We used the YM2151 - a Yamaha 4 operator FM chip -- in many > of our games at Atari (from 1984 to maybe 1994) Using a single 1MHz > 6502 to feed the YM2151 - only 8 monophonic channels; still a milestone > in arcade sound. And I think most of them sound pretty good. > A lot of experimenting to get interesting sounds... but ,that's the fun > part.