[Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.5 released

[Ralf Mardorf]

Brett McCoy wrote:
> 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.

Wouldn't it be possible to use MIDI over IP and to get the audio stream 
by the network into the Linux box?

I guess a second computer with a sound card is too expensive for many 
people, but just a second computer to run some VSTs without a sound card 
should be on-hand, when using an old computer.