Sound editor works in Wine, not Crossover, why?

[carusoswi]

From my XP world, I've grown quite fond of Steinberg's Wavelab for wave editing, recording, CD mastering.

For more than six months, I have struggled to make it work under Crossover - wouldn't recognize my audio hardware at all.

A few weeks ago, I downloaded/installed Wine. This morning, for kicks, I popped in the application CD for Wavelab, clicked on the Setup.exe file, installed it, lo and behold, it will map to either of my sound cards (onboard/PCI), and will play back or record.

Snooping around, I realize that, by default not selected by me, Wine pre-empted Crossover to install the application.

So . . . I'm wondering why the application worked "out of the box" with Wine, but will not work with Crossover. Does that make any sense?

Thanks for any input.

Caruso

[carusoswi]

Contemplating why this Windows ap should work in Wine and not in Crossover when I realized that I had installed a bunch of Jack applications yesterday, and that those applications seemed to improve performance of Audacity (although I am still sorting out some problems). I decided to reinstall Wavelab using Crossover. It now works under Crossover as well, although the menus are cleaner under Wine (why should that be?). Under Crossover, there are some overlapping labels that make reading them impossible. Under Wine, all is fine.

I still cannot record under Wine, Crossover, or natively in Audacity, so I obvioiusly still have issues to sort out.

Caruso