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Old 06-23-2022, 10:27 AM   #1
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Anyone have any thoughts on which is better? For example, do vst's work better on one than the other? I've never actually tried regular Reaper via wine. If the performance was comparable, it seems like it would be a lot simpler than RFL, with its need for conversion apps and such. I am thinking about giving it a try, but if it's a waste of time, maybe someone can point me back to reality?
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Anyone have any thoughts on which is better? For example, do vst's work better on one than the other? I've never actually tried regular Reaper via wine. If the performance was comparable, it seems like it would be a lot simpler than RFL, with its need for conversion apps and such. I am thinking about giving it a try, but if it's a waste of time, maybe someone can point me back to reality?
I can point you to only using REAPER for Linux If REAPER itself is running via WINE, it doesn't mean plugins don't also have to run via WINE. Indeed, I'm not even sure what would happen. My own view = waste of time. Native Linux is just as stable as REAPER for Windows or MacOS.
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Anyone have any thoughts on which is better? For example, do vst's work better on one than the other? I've never actually tried regular Reaper via wine. If the performance was comparable, it seems like it would be a lot simpler than RFL, with its need for conversion apps and such. I am thinking about giving it a try, but if it's a waste of time, maybe someone can point me back to reality?
IIRC, Reaper 6.x has been marked Platinum by WINEHQ for those testing it, so it should work fine. One thing to note, which I don't think will be a problem for you (if I remember correctly, you already use JACK), is that WINEASIO uses JACK. While applications and plugins native to your OS are the best, I know of a couple of people who use Windows apps and plugins exclusively. I'd be willing to bet you would not have too many problems.
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If you happen to have a Windows wave editor, it's probably easier to set it as an external editor in REAPER-on-WINE.
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Old 06-23-2022, 01:36 PM   #5
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I can point you to only using REAPER for Linux If REAPER itself is running via WINE, it doesn't mean plugins don't also have to run via WINE. Indeed, I'm not even sure what would happen. My own view = waste of time. Native Linux is just as stable as REAPER for Windows or MacOS.
Thanks Beth, your opinion is highly valued. I kind of figured it would not be a magic bullet for vst's, and almost certainly not for dongles.
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IIRC, Reaper 6.x has been marked Platinum by WINEHQ for those testing it, so it should work fine. One thing to note, which I don't think will be a problem for you (if I remember correctly, you already use JACK), is that WINEASIO uses JACK. While applications and plugins native to your OS are the best, I know of a couple of people who use Windows apps and plugins exclusively. I'd be willing to bet you would not have too many problems.
Actually I don't use Jack. After fooling with it on Muse, I came running to Reaper for the simplicity of Alsa.

I may try it, but I'll probably stay with RFL. Besides, the devs went to a lot trouble to make it, and for a pretty small user base, so I kind of feel I need to be loyal to it.
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If you happen to have a Windows wave editor, it's probably easier to set it as an external editor in REAPER-on-WINE.
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.
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Actually I don't use Jack. After fooling with it on Muse, I came running to Reaper for the simplicity of Alsa.

I may try it, but I'll probably stay with RFL. Besides, the devs went to a lot trouble to make it, and for a pretty small user base, so I kind of feel I need to be loyal to it.
If you decide to try Jack I would recommend to install Cadence and manage it through it. Cadence simplifies everything and you don't need to manually connect devices, Cadence does that for you.
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Old 06-23-2022, 04:52 PM   #9
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That's good to know. Hopefully I'll remember it. Beyond tomorrow...
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That's good to know. Hopefully I'll remember it. Beyond tomorrow...
Hahaha I know the feeling
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One more advantage of WINE REAPER: when searching in the Preferences, you get a red outline around the matched item. On Linux all you get is an animation than disappears before some people can focus on it...
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Here's another: the Windows version has larger fonts than the Linux one.
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This is just my opinion, but it seems reasonable, that since WINE is only becoming "more" compatible day by day, and since supported versions of Windows drop off (as far as compatibility and support goes--ie WinXP, Win7, etc), WINE may, in time, be more compatible than Windows for certain software. For example, How many people have their old software from the last 20 years sitting around? I know I do. If I really wanted to, I could pull up a lot of that old stuff and probably get it working better on Linux with WINE than on Windows 10 or Windows 11. I have 20 years of software!! Now that I've finally settled on my Linux distro (I've moved from EndeavourOS to Fedora), I'm probably going to experiment with bringing a lot of that back to life. I'd love to see how well Windows 11 users pull that off (as far as old versions of software goes).
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Here's another: the Windows version has larger fonts than the Linux one.
Not if you edit libSwell-user.colortheme. Aller 16 looks terrific! ...at least until you run up against the fields in dialogs that aren't set to full width, in which case the text gets cropped.
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Now that I've finally settled on my Linux distro (I've moved from EndeavourOS to Fedora), I'm probably going to experiment with bringing a lot of that back to life. I'd love to see how well Windows 11 users pull that off (as far as old versions of software goes).
Hurray, now we can pester you about the latest pipewire versions and
how they run in friendly territory!
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Not if you edit libSwell-user.colortheme. Aller 16 looks terrific! ...at least until you run up against the fields in dialogs that aren't set to full width, in which case the text gets cropped.
Thanks for the tip!
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One more tiny +1 (+0.6?) for WINE: I've got a config file, /etc/fonts/conf.d/15-unblur.conf, that turns anti-aliasing off for certain fonts that look better without it, and WINE respects it, but libSwell doesn't.
[EDIT: actually no; I forgot that I had set my reaper-wine.desktop file up to feed "Xft.antialias: 0" to xrdb before launching. I should try that with the Linux version]

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An interesting little quandary: the current Ubuntu (22.04.1, Studio flavor) ships a version of Pipewire that doesn't work with WINEASIO.
Installing a more current Pipewire from a PPA will fix that, but that plus the stock low-latency kernel (and for that matter a hand-compiled RT kernel) gives me big (half-a-second plus) audio dropouts.
A Liquorix kernel solves the dropouts...but then I get random lockups. The taskbar clock display keeps ticking, the graphic analyser in Strawberry keeps analysing, the desktop network widget keeps showing throughput, everything seems normal...except that no keyboard action — not Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, not Ctrl-Alt-Del, not even Alt-SysRq-B — gets any reaction.

So, +1 for native REAPER on that score.
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An interesting little quandary: the current Ubuntu (22.04.1, Studio flavor) ships a version of Pipewire that doesn't work with WINEASIO.
Installing a more current Pipewire from a PPA will fix that, but that plus the stock low-latency kernel (and for that matter a hand-compiled RT kernel) gives me big (half-a-second plus) audio dropouts.
A Liquorix kernel solves the dropouts...but then I get random lockups. The taskbar clock display keeps ticking, the graphic analyser in Strawberry keeps analysing, the desktop network widget keeps showing throughput, everything seems normal...except that no keyboard action — not Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, not Ctrl-Alt-Del, not even Alt-SysRq-B — gets any reaction.

So, +1 for native REAPER on that score.
Oh, I've been there and gotten the t-shirt. I think while briefly on antiX I experimented with a release of Liquorix one or two before current and it fixed all my lockups. Maybe worth a try. I never switched back to the latest again as I then found Manjaro followed by Arch.
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I just tried Reaper (Windows version) on wine. I did it to see if the East west Play software worked any better than it does on Reaper for Linux. I was close to getting Play to actually load instruments. The problem is missing fonts on the browser view, so you can't see what you're doing. I wondered if Reaper on wine would be any different. Nope, same problem.

I must admit I was impressed with how snappy it was. Plugins loaded faster, for example. It had no problem with Kontakt or the Numa player. and I only had to select my audio interface and I had sound, via wave. For someone running a lot of windows software, it could make sense.

However, this was just a test, and the problem is still there, so no reason to switch. Reaper For Linux is working fine for me. Plus, I would lose this excellent forum, and have to take my chances on the main one.

Staying put for now.
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I must admit I was impressed with how snappy it was. Plugins loaded faster, for example. It had no problem with Kontakt or the Numa player. and I only had to select my audio interface and I had sound, via wave. For someone running a lot of windows software, it could make sense.
Thanks for the info. Maybe I should test if I could run the steinberg plugin that way, so I can erase Windows finally

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Plus, I would lose this excellent forum, and have to take my chances on the main one.
Why, wine is running on Linux
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Thanks for the info.


Why, wine is running on Linux
I know, I was just expressing my affection for the good people on this forum.
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