On Friday 17 December 2004 23:19, linux-audio-user-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >This is being offered gratis till the end of december by Mackie. This > > > one > > > > might just be coaxed into running under Wine which would be quite an > > achievement. > > > > >Kudos: 1. The program, though free, needs be registered to a "machine > > > > number". Did this under Windows, did not get that far using Wine. Might > > need a second copy just for the Linux runs. > > was able to do all this with only the latest version of wine - no > windows partition involved. If the dialogs work, registration should work. My concern is being able to use one copy alternatively in Windows AND in Linux once that works. I will request a second key once I have the dialogs up. > > > >2. The program searches for all its own VST dlls and any on the VST > > > > directory. Might have problems doing this in Wine. Some VST demos bring > > up an error box saying please register, limited trial, etc. Such things > > may be disruptive in Wine. (Other VST hosts let you manually find them > > when you want them, avoiding this problem in most cases) > > > > >Anyway, the thing appeared to hang up but I was able to get out. No > > > crash, no > > > > bebug offer. Clean. > > it scanned all the vst plugins in my vst directory (which is in my fake > windows drive) except for one steinberg grm tools one, which crashed it, > but on next boot, it said it had disabled it due to a problem :) ? all > the vst's that it successfully scanned are available from within an open > project - and all their gui's display correctly in tracktion ... Yes, it does. When I ran from the windows directory, it scanned them but hung on those with the warnings. They were disabled the next run which is normal Tracktion functionality I suppose. > > > The main problem is that any UI pop-up, i.e. to choose files, etc., does > > not come up visibly. This is the apparent hangup. Alt-F4 dismisses the > > invisible dialog box. > > this is not a problem for me - all dialogue boxes work as expected. in > fact, Now .. what do you do which is different? I have a dual boot system with Win98 and Linux partitions. I am running Debian, Wine from Sid. > > It audio output device is listed as "direct sound" (under Windows, the > > card's ASIO drivers would be listed). > > > > But .. one would not get anywhere near this far with Sonar. > > everything seems to work EXACTLY as required, except for a working sound > device ... i too get "directsound" listed in the audio setup, but no > sound devices are listed ... i might try messing with the sound settings > in winecfg to see if i can get a wine audio device listed ... I have only had audio play with the OSS selected in Wine's config. Plays through ALSA's OSS compatibility layer, I suppose. Selection ALSA or Jack has not worked for me. > > when i was using windows, i used tracktion quite a bit, and was really > impressed by its interface and usability - plus it's got an interesting > approach to layout/structure .. Yes, this program looks interesting. Interface is eccentric. Does it do mix-automation--I like Sonar's graphical controur control fo this since moused mixer panels just do not cut it. > > anyone else want to test this as well, see if they can get it going? Keep us all posted :-)
