Ableton Forum

I am following closely the viability and workability of Ableton Live with WINE (http://www.winehq.org). Wine , if you didnt know, allows windows applications to be run under linux/unix systems.


The workability has actually come a long way since a few years ago, and Ableton runs *almost* perfectly -- currently there is a direct draw bug that causes some of the internal options / windows within ableton not to display any text properly.

I believe this is one of the final hurdles for running wine within linux/unix systems and I think we should all be more pro-active in pushing the developers of wine to look at these particular bugs!

Honestly, if i can get the few audio applications i use to run in linux, I will give up windows completely -- a goal I hope to reach soon!


The final bug regarding this ddraw issue is here :

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13526

If this issue interests you at ALL , please create a bugzilla account on the wine website and VOTE for my bug! This will increase the visibility of this particular issue and of audio applications in wine altogether -- their main focus right now seems to be getting various games to work , I'd like to change that!


Please let me know your thoughts on this and any other suggestions you guys may have regarding getting ableton running in linux!



Here is a screenshot of the problem (Wine 1.0-rc2 w/ FreeBSD 7.0) :



Thanks guys!!!

fyi this problem still exists in wine 1.0-rc3.

thanks for the votes so far ... this particular bug's status was changed from UNCONFIRMED to NEW

Thanks!

this is great - after I quit my band, I nuked my windows install and have been running OpenSuSE on it since. I've been starting to use the Linux based Audio/midi apps, but none of them really compare to Live. It'd be great to be able to use it again.

^^ absolutely ... i've tried a few linux based applications as well (rosegarden , ardour) , but nothing can compare to ableton live in my opinion.

On a sidenote, Renoise was recently ported to linux and I have actually tested "Reaper" -- a new multitrack vst-supported audio recording software for windows (under WINE), and it works almost perfectly!


Soon I will ditch windows and never look back.