The two things keeping Windows alive for dualboot on my PC is CSGO Faceit and Ableton Live.
Before I formatted my PC Ableton Live ran horribly on Linux. Both in Wine and on Virtual Machines (KVM/Virtual Box). After my reformat I kinda didn’t bother to attempt to reinstall Ableton… However! Last night I had a few beers and I tried to follow this tutorial:
I’m pretty bad at German, but I got the most of it, and it WORKS!!
No noticeable delay and no graphical bugs with the faders and sends. I haven’t tried any VSTs yet though, but base-ableton effects and instruments work fine for me.
If anyone is interested in how to do it (and can’t speak german), here is the most important things to take away from the video:
Install Wine and Winetricks including all optional dependencies.
Run wineboot -u, make sure to install Gecko but NOT mono!!
Run winetricks corefonts vcrun2010 vcrun2013 vcrun2015 to install some windows dependencies that Ableton likes
Run winetricks win7 to run Wine in Windows7 mode.
Once everything is installed, you can activate Ableton offline with your hardware serialnumber.
There’s also kinda live’ish Bitwig studio native, as well as Reaper and Renoise
VST compatibility so far is pretty good, i’ll PM you something now which may give you some idea
btw, if you want a stable studio - i’d advise you to use portable non-system WINEPREFIX (you can copy and use existing one in the end) with non-system WINE engine, to know how check out that guide (1-3).
Latest Wine != always greatest, it gives you flexibility to independently choose engine in case update for next Wine in Arch is breaking something
This way you’ll get full control on your studio and can copy it to another system easily
Overall Linux is very ready for pro-audio, so have fun
and wine / wine-staging 6.0 (coz it have some very important developments for d2d1 to actually get it working, for example fixed some stuff for Serum / Spire)
I haven’t tested it on wine 6.0 yet, but it’s the best chance you have so far
I wonder if I should be bothered to try out Ableton 11… I have a few Max4Live sequencers that would be nice to fiddle with… or I could just try to recreate them in bitwig grid
Probably just lookign for excuses to use it until I sell it … Having software so expensive lying around hurts…still at least Push 2 is useable with bitwig.
There is also about 8 billion seqeuncers on VCV rack
Hi guys,
I’ve also managed to install Live with Wine (through Lutris) and it really works. I’ve managed to install and run WineASIO with low latency kernel. It also works with xanmod and liquorix kernels but I don’t think this kind of setup is ready for live performances because it is really not stable enough at least in my opinion and the audio latency is high even with WineASIO/Jack installed and working properly. OK I admit I have old HW - i74710HQ and NI Komplete Audio 6 interface but in Windows I get latency, which is less than a millisecond and with Wine and WineASIO/Jack I can’t get any latency, which is even close to that without under-runs There is also another problem. The Push 2 controller can’t work with Wine because Wine lacks USB support and the Push 2 is not a pure MIDI controller. AFAIK the Push 2 is receiving pixel data through the USB because it has a display with higher resolution than the original Push and there is no way to make it work with the current Wine versions. This is really sad because I like the controller and don’t want to sell it and use something else, which is just MIDI. At least in my case I am stuck with Windows because of the controller.
There is also another problem. The Push 2 controller can’t work with Wine because Wine lacks USB support and the Push 2 is not a pure MIDI controller. AFAIK the Push 2 is receiving pixel data through the USB because it has a display with higher resolution than the original Push and there is no way to make it work with the current Wine versions. This is really sad because I like the controller and don’t want to sell it and use something else, which is just MIDI. At least in my case I am stuck with Windows because of the controller.