Running commercial audio software on linux

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Below are the overrides I have in my Mint 18 setup,
with intel mobo, nvidia pcie video card, mAudio soundcard,
i7 2600 cpu, 8gig ram

These were added over the years, to get U-he, NI/Reaktor,
Synthmaster/One, IK Multimedia, Rhino, Wusikstation etc
in working order in linux, along with many Synthedit
and small-shop products. Likely some of these overrides
are no longer needed, since wine has made great progress.
Some may need both 64 bit and 32bit versions
(32bit placed in the stupidly named
drive_c/windows/syswow64 )

Very knowledgable people recommended some,
some I saw mentioned in various backtrace/termininal outputs,
and some were gleaned from search engine results.
If I were to offer advice, which I never do,
it would be to study and research, then test in a separate
system, keeping your production computer(s) safe.
Keep backup copies of working .wine folders.
Recording hours should be the priority, they are the
true mirror that reflects one's progress.

Good info is at the linvst git page,
for some precise ways to help wine run vsts better:

https://github.com/osxmidi/LinVst

msvcp140
concrt140
mfc42
mfc42u
mfc71
mfc90
gdiplus
msvbvm60
msvcp80
msvcr100
msvcr120
ucrtbase
mscoree
atl100
atl80

d3d8thk
d3d9
d3d10
d3d11
d3dx9_35
d3dx9_41

api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-2-1.dll
api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll

Cheers

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Great news!

Commercial full Serum synth can be installed *and* registered successfully!

I disabled d2d1 and upgraded wine to wine-staging.

Works in Reaper and sounds good! Some drawing errors on Serum UI, but nothing critical.

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How cool is that! :hyper:

I did the 64bit Axiom install on Mint 18,
and it seems fine. Hope 2019 keeps up with
this torrid pace of sonic goodness 8)
(although it will be the year of only 'the no-brainer-sale' )

When there's no more room left in my head,
I dare not make less room on my hard drive :help:
Cheers

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glokraw, this might interest you:

Cytomic's The Scream installs, registers and works in 32-bit wine-staging. It's emulation of TS-808 Tube Screamer.

Might be on your interests... :phones:

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Cool, will check it out. Currently I'm using Native Instruments
Rammstein for my first order stompbox.
Handy to have four channels to pick for stompins :hyper:
Cheer

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Dimitry Sches Tantra multi-effects or BlueCat Axiom amp-sim-effects
teamed up as a linux standalone with the legendary
Synth1 from Ichiro Toda? :dog: :scared:

Well, yes, and a world cup sonic team it is. :party:

I noticed that the .dll hosting command 'Festige' was in the KX Studio repository,
(I believe it's a gui-based spinoff of the old 'fst' command, which was a treat
for running plugin .dll's like an executable. This version is
developed by Filipe Coelho (falkTX, who created KX Studio and
it's repository setup. Some festige info is at

https://syntheway.com/FeSTige.htm

To make a long story short, Festige opens a simple panel where
you can choose, remove, and refresh vst paths, and browse thru them
to launch one or more plugins. There's no daw in sight,
but festige can display a preset list for some plugins in it's menu bar.
So plugins that have fully self-contained preset and bank management
would be first choices to try. Find the volume knob
on your running the plugin first, it's lucky :hyper:

Lots of good effects and ampsims work, most don't need presets,
so TSE, Poulin, Ignite, Voxengo and others are out there
for quick jam sessions/practice.
Also Emmisary, LaGrange, Nasty-dlay, and Sanford effects
are working.

From an hours toying about, plugin success is low
compared to using Reaper, but good enough to find some
excellent combos, like the ones mentioned above. If you find some
jewels, but have a long list of plugins in the Festige browser,
I'd copy or link the working ones to their own vst path,
and remove the other paths. Festige can be a very useful
when you want a quick-n-easy session,
and you can always open a daw later,
and patch things in to an audio track for mowbetta.

This could also help keep a low-spec machine available
to keep making music.
Cheers

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I just discovered this thread. :o Following! :D
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I mentioned in the general linux thread that
IK Multimedia UNO synth
was working nicely, and adding capabilities to my linux setup,
now, on the software topic, I'm happy to say that
IK's standalone .exe UNO Editor app
is also working! This is an eye and user friendly gui that
opens up all the controls of the UNO, including an excellent
4 octave arpeggiator, with 15 scale options.

You can save new presets you make. The first 20 slots
are reserved as sysytem defaults, but you can load
and store new or edited versions in the other 80 slots,
and name them as desired.

There is a nice config panel to open via the 3bar icon at
the editor's upper-right corner. The editor displays a 'waiting for uno' message
until the correct settings for your system are chosen.
(a manual is in the editor download)
Here are the settings I chose:

midi input = UNO____________midi soft through = on
midi output = UNO___________knob behavior = absolute
midi controller=(add your keyboard here)_______midi sync = internal

input channel = any_____________send pc = on
output channel = 1______________receive pc = on
______________________________midi interface = on

Kudos to both the IK UNO creators/coders, and the wine developers
:party: :love: :party:

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https://www.native-instruments.com/en/s ... ffer-2019/

This is a great half-price sale offer for U-he Diva,
and the Repro 1 and 5 combo product,
and a separate bundle including a choice of 4 effects.
A great chance to add these world-class products to your studio.

They all have demos, with only very mild noises added periodicly,
and are registered by simply adding your name and serial number
in a gui, or it's related text file.

Download links for the linux demos here:

viewtopic.php?f=292&t=519252

The windows versions also will work nicely with wine and Reaper daw,
demos at

https://u-he.com/products/

:party: :hyper: :party:

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I’m getting Diva out of this sale! 😀
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You'll have a blast with Diva

https://u-he.com/PatchLib/diva.html

This links to around 1000 free Diva presets,
I don't think they are all in the commercial collection.
So you'll probably have around 2000 sounds at first :hyper:

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glokraw wrote: Wed Feb 06, 2019 7:01 am You'll have a blast with Diva

https://u-he.com/PatchLib/diva.html

This links to around 1000 free Diva presets,
I don't think they are all in the commercial collection.
So you'll probably have around 2000 sounds at first :hyper:
Awesome!! Thanks for pointing these patches out!!
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Lately I've been feeling the nervous energy of some new product
soon to be released, without knowing which one, but the news broke
yesterday, it's a new version of the Studio1337 commercial bootable
ram-dwelling realtime linux audio producers system,
with plenty of new features, new realtime kernel, and new foundation based on Bionicpup64, a finely tuned linux system in it's own right.

Studio1337 is available as a bootable usb stick, or an iso image,
which can be installed as a full linux distro, or launched from
a dvd that reads a squash filesystem 'save-file', that holds
the system and the users modifications.

The system has most of the popular free linux audio software
ready to go, and a package manager for updates based on
the ubuntu bionic-beaver release. This Studio version also
has a wine-staging 4.07 installed, handy for adding
Reaper and vst plugins.

I've been using versions since the early days of Puppy Studio,
and the developer just keeps on enhancing things
as the years fly by. One handy new feature is the ability
to increase the size of the save-file by increments as large
as 65 gig, great if you get some huge sound libraries,
or work with video files. I started with a 12 gig file,
and will add more as needed.

Those seeking maximum performance will find software
compiled with a realtime kernel, and running from ram,
is both fast and stable. The system also has a large set
of configuration utilities for handling network, audio, video,
and basic first-time setup, as well as ongoing fine tuning.

One's view of the prices, will relate to the value placed upon
the hours you hope to spend actually creating music,
rather than dealing with configurations and
performance experiments. It's a great way to add
a working linux studio to an existing ntfs formatted drive,
and take in the new system at leisure, while keeping
existing setups active.

And it's a great way to have a fully portable system
that runs on a huge range of hardware, for those
whose travels long or short, are a frequent part
of your lifestyle.

Sadly, there may be those :dog: dark :x days :dog:
when you really need a rescue system...I've got that T-shirt
in the closet, and a full featured linux provides great tools
to fix what's broken.
Cheers

http://studio1337.pro/

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Is there anywhere I can find an already compiled WINEASIO driver? Or a compile script? I am not comfortable with compiling on Linux yet, and I'd like to experiment with running the Windows version of Reaper, to go along with the Linux native version.
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Some repositories willl have a wineasio package for
the wine version they supply. If not,
and what I have done a few times, is to use an archive
tool like file-roller to open a .deb or .rpm wineasio package,
and simply copy or link the wineasio.dll to the wine folders
and subfolders I have, where it can be registered and accessed.
The folders and/or subfolders may vary among distros,
for example,

/usr/lib/wine
/usr/x86_64-linux-gnu/wine
/opt/wine-staging/lib/wine
/opt/wine-staging/lib/wine/fakedlls
/opt/wine-staging/lib64/wine

The commands to 'register' the wineasio.dll are
wine64 regsvr32 wineasio.dll
wine regsvr32 wineasio.dll

The commands report success or failure,
if it fails, the .dll file was probably not found,
so a little searching for more locations is used
until successful. It's a tiny file, likely under 400k,
and may sometimes be presented as wineasio.dll.so

Reaper may also work well enough by
using it's Device preferences panel to
choose wasapi instead of asio.

If a distro repository wine is to be replaced
by wine-staging from wineHQ, your package manager
may insist upon removing dependencies you value.
This is a nuisance, but they can be replaced after
the wine-staging version is in place.
Cheers

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