[Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.5 released

[Brett McCoy]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>
>>> 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.

Yeah, that would be ugly to implement correctly and likely be illegal
from the licensing agreement of the manufacturer. I just run 'em on a
separate (Windows) box anyway and use midi-over-ip to synch with Linxu
apps.

-- Brett
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