Has anyone experience getting Ivory, Akoustik Piano, Pianoteq, etc. running via Wine[/b] or Ardour[/b] ?

I'm looking to try out Ubuntu Studio[/b] (if not just for the sweet GDM login background[/b] alone) in the next few weeks and am wondering if I should even waist my bandwidth on the dl.

Thanks in advance.

I haven't tried it but I was thinking about Pianoteq. Because I run linux at home, linux-compatibility would be a definite plus for me.

One reason I have to be optimistic is that pianoteq supports the Muse Receptor platform, and as far as I know that is pretty much a standard linux box (hardware-wise) in a convenient format.

So possibly there is already a native version of Pianoteq! Anyway, please keep us informed on what you find, because there are probably several linux-users on the forum.

Hi,

I've managed to run Pianoteq on Linux. I used JAD - Jacklab Audio Distribution (www.jacklab.org), which has an improved Wine version and comes with a host of audio tools. It's the best solution I've found after several weeks of searching. I used the standalone version of PT.

I haven’t tried Akoustik, but I suppose it should work (as it does on Receptor).

The only “problem” I’ve noticed with Linux is that PT seems to consume more CPU than it does under Windows. My guess is that it might be due to some “conversion” taking place in the Wine layer, but I don’t have proof of this.

Being PT very CPU intensive I can imagine that any overhead required by the Win-Linux conversion would get magnified quite quickly. However, my guess is that Akoustik (which is IO-bound, rather than CPU-bound) should not have this problem – at least not to the same extent.

FYI, JAD is a SuSe repackaging while Receptor uses Red Hat.

JAD looks very promising (it worked for me even on an alpha 3 release) and seems to place a reasonable amount of focus on running VSTi plugins under Linux (I used standalone PT, though).

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Thank you very much for the reply Pumucky.

I just downloaded the Pianoteq trial version and tried it under the default wine included in my normal distribution (Fedora). At first it didn't work because it said my soundcard wasn't supported---it told me to turn on audio emulation. I did this and Pianoteq seemed to work fine, consuming only about 25% CPU (I have a Dual Core 2 6600).

However, I haven't tried it "live" yet and I'm worried that latency will be an issue. Does anyone know if the normal sound built into my motherboard is sufficient, or if I need something special?

But anyway, if anyone just wants to use Pianoteq to process midi files, it should be easy on any linux box.