Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: Opinions on running VST or DirectX pluginson Linux in real time

[David Gerard Matthews]

Mark Knecht wrote:

Being that I'm just a user type, I actually don't understand why this
sort of thing doesn't actually work.

I'm pretty much just a user too. However, I'm pretty sure that ProTools LE has a lot of
code that talks directly to the kernel. Acid actually might be feasible, seeing as people have
run on MacOS using Virtual PC.

PTLE has it's own hardware. No one
talks to it except Pro Tools.

Not true. I've run Digital Performer, MSP, Peak, and a few other programs on PTLE
hardware. Unlike TDM, PTLE does all the DSP on the host CPU. The Digi001 isn't
all that different from any other audio interface on the market - it just happens to
have good converters and a Digidesign label.

I'd love to be able to run it, output Pro
Tools audio on the ADAT interface, and pipe it digitally back into my RME
running Ardour and other jack enable apps. That doesn't actually require the
wine audio to become jack enabled.

No, what it would require is a Linux version of ProTools. I don't think that's going
to be forthcoming anytime soon. Remember, these are the people who resisted porting
their software to Windows for ages, and who to this day only support a handful of
configurations. They still haven't even released an OSX version!

It just requires a speedy computer to run
Pro Tools + whatever disk subsystem necessary to move PTLE audio.

PTLE audio is just a 32-bit .wav file, iirc. I believe that that's the reason
that 32-bit mono .wav files were the default on ardour. If all you wanted
to do was use your PTLE hardware under Linux, (with ardour, for example),
all you would need would be an alsa drive for the h/w. But that seems completely
inconcievable at this point.

  Now that would be a fun Linux audio box! ;-)

  I won't be getting my hopes up anytime soon... (Unless some tells me it
already works!!)

Cheers,
Mark

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: Opinions on running VST or DirectX
plugins on Linux in real time


Mark Knecht wrote:

Taybin,
 So I may one day be able to run Acid Pro in wine and route audio to

alsa?

That would be just too cool for words! ;-)

Mark

Don't get your hopes up.  I can't even get Sibelius to run in wine - and
I didn't even attempt midi entry or playback.
Besides, I don't know what wine's overhead is, but I can't imagine that
the performance you'd get would be worth
it, even if you did get it to work.
-dgm