Have you tried running finale under Wine? A quick Google search shows it should run fine, and would probably have less processor overhead than trying to run a VM. -Bob On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Somebody made me attend on this list, specializing in sound problems. > > I write music semi-professionally and therefore have to use Finale, > which is Windows only. I have installed Vmware where Windows XP is > running as a guest and there I run Finale. > The sound produced by any sound application in Windows is "stuttering" > and distorted and quite unusable. > System: AMD Phenom II (4-core, 2.4 GHz)) 4GB mem; Ubuntu Karmic. > Sound is OK in Karmic (flash video's no problem, CD's no problem). > Vmware : soundcard : autodetect. I have tried other possibilities but > none worked better. > I suspect pulse-audio, which I think is not a good development as I > prefer good old ALSA without "embellishments". However, audacity, which > I use regularly in Linux works without a problem. > Can anybody give me some help to solve this problem as it is rather > urgent and I don't want a system with Windows only. > I hope somebody can help me out. > Joep > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
