[Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.5 released

[Ralf Mardorf]

Brett McCoy wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf
> <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>   
>> Jason.Russler at gmail.com wrote:
>>     
>>> if someone here has had success using Ardour with NI's Play Instrument,
>>> any simple MIDI sequencer and video sync with JACK's transport, I want to
>>> hear about it. I'd ditch my Windows/Sonar Producer set-up in a second.
>>>       
>> http://www.openmovieeditor.org/ should work with JACK transport.
>> http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/qtractor-index.html#Features
>> Might work, if Qtractor is JACK transport master and you don't need NI's
>> Play Instrument. Dunno what will happen when using loop play.
>> I guess using wineasio would cause to much jitter, even if it should be able
>> to use VSTs this way.
>>     
>
> Do you all mean Native Instrument's Kontakt? The 'Play' instrument is
> from EastWest/Quantum Leap and doubt that will ever run on Linux since
> it requires a USB dongle to run.

Yesno. A grotesque situation could be to use a dongle simulation for the 
licensed version. But I never tried this, I only was using free Windows 
VSTs, but to be honest, non of the free VSTs can reach EastWest stuff 
like the orchestra or the chor.