Comments on: A Coming Flood of Commercial Linux Music Apps?

By: Retrievil

Retrievil — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:10:13 +0000

alienprdkt:
If you were successful in this, you should tell the wine-guys, there are a lot of people trying to get Ableton to work, the main problem being empty dialog boxes…I have only the 7.x edition myself, which does not work, due to a DDRAW issue with wine…..hopefully resolved soon, though……(I might give v.6 a try now that you mention this though….

Please drop a line here if you actually got a stable Ableton installation doing this, I am a bit confused when you say you copied the original folder and then installed. Did you install again over the old dir that you copied?

-Retrievil

By: alienprdkt

alienprdkt — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:07:30 +0000

ABLETON LIVE 6 ON KUBUNTU

I am going to all of these forums to let everyone know that yes I have successfully installed Live 6 on my Kubuntu 8 machine with wine;

apt-get install wine

then I copied the Live 6 folder from my windows pc located within Program files, to my Wine program files directory. Then installed!!!! Worx Great!!!!! ;)

hope i answered your question,

alienprdkt

By: sebk

sebk — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:07:21 +0000

I’ve created a facebook group :

Please music softwares, plugins and soundcards adapt to Linux !

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8965463105

Please join !!!

PS : i’ve added this page as a link.
Tell me if i should remove it…
Thanks.

By: Retrievil

Retrievil — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:14:35 +0000

All is actually well and good in the Linux world when it comes to working with sound, it’s just that we all have gotten used to our fancy plugins and presets…..if you take the time to figure out what you are actually doing instead of getting blown away by a fancy GUI and 1200 samples/presets delivered in the bag, you already have lots of stuff to play with. AND you can actually say you made it yourself, as compared to the soundmakings done in eJay and the like.

For PRO audio, it’s Linux or Mac. (I used to be strictly windows when it came to sound, even though Linux has been my main OS for several years, but the software now is so good, the effort in swapping is minimal.)

My 2 cents

-Retrievil

By: starpause

starpause — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:21:39 +0000

this is the first shit that comes up when you google “ableton linux” from the united states.

not even people trying it in wine …

energyXT is out for linux now, interesting! but still not as good as ableton for mixing =(

mixxx is not bad for linux! getting better every day.

my eee will be a happy cpu =)

By: KoAN

KoAN — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:50:27 +0000

I’m also an Ableton/Reason, Reactor/Cubase user and the only thing that keeps me from getting into Linux Ubuntu 64bit are those dam drivers!
Open source is the future. As 4 music, I’m truly amazed by some Vst pluggins been developed FREE at KVRaudio.com (Linux supported!!)

Meanwhile i’m still running XPpro – on a AMD X2 4400+ with 4Gb Ram (only using 3gb :| 10x 2 32bit crap xp), M~Audio Delta 1010 – in dual independent boot (BIOS disk priority change – that means 2 Windows in 2 different HDs, fully independent, no partitions for the OS).
It works fine…but since i’ve seen Ubuntu + Beryl/xgl running so f***ing smooth on a p4 2400, 512Mb (4 years old)…well…i can imagine a world of Music power production if audio software/hardware companies toke more advantage of open source programs, like Linux.
Well, one thing is for sure…it’s comming soon!
:D
As 4 Vista…well…all has been said about it

KoAN
~
2k

By: Oetzi

Oetzi — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:30:39 +0000

Never used linux but love what I’ve heard about it. Would probably move to it if Cubase and Live were ported but to be honest I’d miss WIndows.

By: elemental

elemental — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:55:32 +0000

I would also love to see apps like Ableton Live run on Linux. Especially since people are saying you can still run windows VST plugins in Linux.

I use Ubuntu at work now, and while there are things that can take ages to work out (like getting my Wacom tablet working properly) in general things are much more stable and nicer to work with than Windows… I think a lot of Ableton users (amongst others) would be very much into a streamlined system just for music production and/or performance.

I for one would immediately install Linux on the laptop I use for live performance if Ableton released a build for it.

By: ogami1972

ogami1972 — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:04:12 +0000

I would love to see these apps on linux, but in the meantime, i found a way around it: i run proprietaries like ableton, etc, on a seperate windows machine and record into my linux machine. I am continously amazed with linux’ abilities.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:53:10 +0000

I have been looking at linux in various forms for the last couple of years and I will swap to this platform if I can get drivers for my sound cards.

My roland UM-1 and UA-1D already work and I have had some success using them under a live CD install.

Personally I want migrate. And soon!