Hey Kristof, > After a quick check, I see that WineASIO development is done in GIT, not in > SVN. > There were 5 commits since 0.9.0, and judging from the comments, they seem > to be useful bugfixes / enhancements, so I went with the GIT version. > not surprising that they use git. As for wineASIO - i currently use 0.7.5 ...used to use 0.9.0 but for my purposes, the older version seems to be better. (and i only use it for 1 or 2 apps). > I decided to check the "Wine + WineASIO + Kontakt-Standalone-App" direction > first. > > After installing latest WINE, WineASIO and Kontakt Player, Kontakt can > detect that I have ASIO (besides the DirectSound interface), but if I select > it, it says that the device is "Not present". > > Do you have idea what do I need to do to actually run it? I've run kontakt before, but not in a long while. it sounds like you are close, but maybe forgot a step. did your register wineASIO with the Wine registry?? if you are using a 64bit system (and OS), did you 1st specify your wine prefix as being win32 before registering wineASIO? What version of jack are you using? > (Jack was running when I started Kontakt, but no Jack clients appeared in > qjackctl when I started Kontakt.) it won't appear in jack until the app is properly using ASIO. > Furthermore, checking the docs and sources of WineASIO, it does not seem to > do anything about MIDI. WineASIO doesn't deal with midi - it routes audio streams to jack. hence why no documentation on midi... Apps using WineASIO will actually be using ALSA-midi NOT Jack-midi. You must specify what midi ports you plan on using inside of your app, usually somewhere in the VSTi's preferences/options.... ie: midi-keyboard for midi-in, or possibly alsa-midithrough + setting the midi channel - depending on what you are trying to do. Note: you should be able to use a2jmidid as well, for alsa-midi to jack-midi bridge. - although, i haven't tried this, as i don't require it for the apps i run with WineASIO. > How can I get jack midi into wine? FST/Festige uses Jack-midi exclusively with wine/VSTs. > I will check the "FST + Kontakt-VST-Pluigin" direction next. > It's closer to my real use case, so I hope I will have better luck with this > approach. I would also make sure that you have wineASIO properly installed, as you may like to use it as well. for example, sometimes a VSTi may crash (or be unstable) using FST, while with wineASIO it works flawlessly (or vice-versa). there may be other times, when a VSTi doesn't work with FST and does NOT have a standalone version (only a .dll) ~ in this case, you might want to checkout SAVIhost or VSTHost, as they provide a method of hosting a single-vst (SAVIhost) or multiple (with VSThost). link; http://www.hermannseib.com/english/savihost.htm VSThost is also available there. anyways, in a circumstance like my second example, you may want to wrap the vst's .dll into an .exe (standalone app) - which will require WineASIO to work. >thank you for your help. No problem, running windows proaudio apps in wine + jack-audio-connection-kit can be a bit confusing at first. * I still have to say though, running a sampler-type VSTi through wine, isn't necessarily the best idea. I can almost promise you are going to have headache after headache. One problem is that when wine apps are under heavy disk i/o - they tend to cause xruns in jack. ie: Battery3, KontaKt, sampletank, etc - all tend to cause random nasty bursts of xruns. * That is why i suggested a native linux app for sampling. it works much better, and the CPU usage will be nothing in comparison. Like i said, i use LinuxSampler - because i can take .sfz and various other kinds of samplebanks and convert them into .gig using a Windows app in wine, to do so; http://www.extranslator.com/ I purchased it (it's not-free) because i needed to migrate samples to my AKAI-MPC2000xl, but now i use it mostly for converting formats to linuxsampler ones. this includes many soundbanks that came with Komplete 7 - including many kontakt banks, and battery3 kits. there's also a great app for linux for ripping instruments (like VSTi's) and it works with Jack. It's called Synthclone; http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/ I've ripped a few vst's with it. very useful utility. cheerz
