06-23-2022, 10:27 AM | #1 |
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Reaper For Linux vs. Reaper On Wine
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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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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06-23-2022, 01:36 PM | #5 | |
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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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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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06-28-2022, 06:43 AM | #11 |
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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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06-28-2022, 09:08 AM | #12 |
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Here's another: the Windows version has larger fonts than the Linux one.
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06-28-2022, 09:14 AM | #13 |
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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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06-28-2022, 01:00 PM | #14 |
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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.
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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] Last edited by ForrestH; 08-18-2022 at 03:19 PM. Reason: correction |
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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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09-08-2022, 02:48 PM | #21 |
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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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09-09-2022, 09:40 AM | #23 |
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I know, I was just expressing my affection for the good people on this forum.
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