On Saturday 02 September 2006 09:26, linux-audio-user-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I've been just informed by Robert Reif of the Wine project that Wine now > has a simple ASIO driver and that testers are needed. For more info please > see: > > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2161 Wow, been waiting for this. (There is already VST support around compiled using Winelib--standalone jack client jack-vst and support in several audio programs) Anyway, why did the folks doing jack remove support and what will the problems be for WINE? ASIO, as well as VST, are proprietary, non-free. While their creator, Steinberg, gives out the development kit freely, this is not opensource. Posting stuff made with this on Debian and other distribution lists may or will be excluded. There may be a question whether or not WINE will/can distribute such packages. The SDK for ASIO and VST must be obtained from Steinberg. For example, two header files needed for VST compilations need be taken from there and should not be included in source packages. While jack may be "better", my dman2044 sound card sits unused under linux because its technology is closed and therefore no ALSA support. Its asio driver sits on my windows partition, waiting for that day. (To use a "foreign" PCI device, more than an ASIO interface may be required since PCI devices need be correctly initialized on startup.) Would love to test this thing! BTW, one app that almost runs on WINE is Tracktion (Many of its pop-dialogs simply never appear and must be dismissed with ALT-F4 to continue) It ASIO option in there and it detects devices from the windows/system directory. It can read its sample projects and attempt to play them. Ready to go?
