audio software commpatibility

[winmenoliky]

hey!
I'm going to install Ubuntu in one of my hard drives to start with it, cuz i have two studio programs i work with which run with win; i was wondering if i can run them only with ubuntu so i can totally switch to it. The progs are "magix music studio 12" and "emagic logic audio 4.6"(the old Logic Pro before it was bought by apple)

the first one, music studio runs with win 2000/XP and Logic with win95/98, but i can run it with win XP, which i use to both.

i love these progs and want to keep using them; but it would be great if i could do it without win. Also i'd like to know what other progs can be run in ubuntu; like cubase, protools, etc.

thanx from before!

P.S: i know about ardour and i wanna start with it as well, but i still wanna use my old progs.):P

[gsmanners]

You probably want to look at the Wine AppDB.

http://appdb.winehq.org/appbrowse.php?iCatId=1

[Stochastic]

I'd like to recommend checking out Rosegarden. It's similar to Logic and Cuebase. In my opinion (and many others') you should really try to run 100% native linux apps (not many pro-audio commercial software has ported to linux yet, hence they need to be run through wine). If you're wondering about commercial linux audio apps check out Renoise and EnergyXT.

But if you're stuck on an old program (as it sounds like you are) running through wine (windows app layer) is the way to go.

[kayosiii]

I haven't really tried the emulation route for audio on linux... I have somewhere floating around a copy of logic 3.5 (but it is tied to a card I no longer have)...

My suggestion is to get the the ubuntu studio version of ubuntu and try it (it will have most of the good audio software installed by default). Specifically check out Ardour, Rosegarden & Hydrogen.

[winmenoliky]

And guess who's already surfing with Ubuntu...

Thanx to u all for the answers; i will install wine and run my old progs and download Ardour and one of the linux midi sequencers to work with it; the thing with my old progs it's that they've costed me money, like i bought magix studio last year, and it's too little time just to throw it away; and believe u all me; i am the most interested one in non-commercial software, but right now i'm unemployed and i'd bang my head against the walls if i would have spent money in something i won't use for long; besides i'm still finishing a project there as well :p

I already love UBUNTU!! xD it's such a cutie!! xD

[robeast]

Sell your proprietary software. I would be very surprised if they ran well in wine. I've been throwing this link around all over this forum recently :biggrin:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Recording-in-Linux-aka-Free-and-Open-Source-Digital-Audio-Workstation

I'm told it's helped a lot of people new to recording in Linux get oriented to the environment and software. If you have features in your proprietary software that you can't find here it may be worth booting into Windows for certain projects. I still have a couple unfinished projects in Cubase which is the only reason I ever boot into windows anymore. I think you'll find that you have all you could want if you install Ubuntu Studio!

[Raptor Ramjet]

Hello,

Sadly I'm in the same boat as you as I am a Logic 5.5.1 power user and following Apple/Emagics disgraceful dumping of their Windows customers would dearly love to move to a Linux based solution (incidentally this is what made me try to make a 100% switch to Linux and a vow to never again pay a penny for software unless I got a copy of the source to compile myself)

Unfortunately from my experience Logic doesn't work on Wine and the Linux tools just don't have the same ease of use, features or integraton as Logic.

Having said that Rosegarden is quite good but feels a bit like an early Cubase compared to Logic. Ardour is great for Audio only (i.e. the MIDI side of things hasn't really been implemented yet) Qtractor also looks promising but doesn't seem to even have the ability to create new MIDI tracks from the keyboard/mouse yet. I've not really had much of a play with Muse or Anthem but I expect they'll be, feature wise, a bit like Rosegarden.

So don't let anyone tell you that something like Rosegarden, Muse, Qtractor etc. are a "great replacement" as they're simply not. They're not even close to Logic and anyone who says they are has either never used Logic or does not know what is involved in professional audio/MIDI work.

The complete show stopper for me though is that most of the VSTs I use don't run on Linux. Even worse is that I love the "inbuilt" effects and instruments on Logic (EXS24, ES1 etc.) and have invested hundreds of hours creating sample banks etc.

The bottom line for me is that I can't switch until either all VSTs are supported natively or the range and quality of any native alternative surpasses the current range of quality VSTs (think Superwave, Massive, Reaktor, Battery, FM8, Motion 2.8, etc. etc.)

Having said that I do have great hopes for the future of Audio/MIDI on Linux but sadly I think I'll be dead before there's something that works as well as Logic Audio :)

My solution has therefore been to keep an XP machine going which is used exclusively for Audio/MIDI work. I've even gone so far as to get backups for the major hardware components sitting in a drawer to make sure I can run this as long as I need to ! (that's a Dual Core Athlon, 2gb RAM, AGP card, Motherboard, 10 in 10 out Audio card - packages opened to test the components then resealed all sitting in a drawer)

Hopefully one day I'll be able a native Linux Audio/MIDI solution but that day's a long way off yet...