What is recommended for a multiarch Wine install for audio production? Fedora 33 Cinnamon w/ Audio Production groupinstall

globetrotterdk · February 10, 2021, 6:20pm

Relatively new to Fedora and I am a bit confused about doing a Wine install for audio production. First, there is the choice of doing either a stock Fedora install:
$ sudo dnf wine
or choosing to do a WineHQ install. I understand that Lutris is another option, but as I am not planning on using Wine for gaming… Then there is the issue of how to ensure that the necessary 32-bit libs get installed. Thirdly, there is the issue of installing wineasio. In the .deb world KXstudio would be the answer, but I didn’t have much success with the KXstudio repo in general, which is part of the reason that I am trying to sort things out on Fedora. I have only been able to find a Reaper howto for compiling wineasio here. No .rpm packages available?

Any help would be appreciated.

alienator · February 10, 2021, 11:36pm

Hello, you could try Fedora Jam from fedora labs and look into Ardour (daw) compatible with VST plugins, and Opensource audio production

globetrotterdk · February 11, 2021, 7:30am

Thanks for the reply. I have the ‘Audio Production’ groupinstall installed, which is Fedora Jam, as mentioned in the subject header. The problem is that there are Windows only apps that I need to run, that need Wine, such as ChordPulse, as shown in this video:

https://youtu.be/P5614AbOdT8

globetrotterdk · February 11, 2021, 10:53am

I installed Fedora’s Wine as a test on one computer:
$ sudo dnf install wine
Things worked as advertised, however, I did notice that there weren’t very many i686 packages that were pulled in. Neither is wine-tweaks available, nor wineasio. Hmmm.

heliosstyx · February 11, 2021, 11:10am

I think WINE is the wrong way for Windows native professional Audio tools, because Wine is not an suiteable Windows/Mac replacement. The professional audio tool industry knows that and so the only way to produce real professional audio things is to use the main audio OS’s Windows/Mac and you have to pay for it, free is not the slogan in the professional audio industry. I have tried it for myself, Linux(without Mac) is not the way, too much play around and too weak in the results. I hope this will help you. Look into the real world and try to find professional studios working with free tools, that is the same like snow in the summer.

hhlp · February 11, 2021, 11:29am

A dirty workaround, is find a packaed in a rpm Distro like OPensuse:

wget https://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/opensuse/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/x86_64/wineasio-0.10.0-1.12.x86_64.rpm

wget https://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/opensuse/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/x86_64/wineasio-settings-0.10.0-1.12.x86_64.rpm

and,

sudo dnf install *.rpm

References

https://opensuse.pkgs.org/tumbleweed/wine-x86_64/

Regards.,