Re: [linux-audio-user] Wine introduces ASIO support

On Saturday 02 September 2006 09:26,
linux-audio-user-request@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> I've been just informed by Robert Reif of the Wine project that Wine now
> has a simple ASIO driver and that testers are needed. For more info please
> see:
>
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2161

Wow, been waiting for this. (There is already VST support around compiled
using Winelib--standalone jack client jack-vst and support in several audio
programs)

Anyway, why did the folks doing jack remove support and what will the problems
be for WINE?

ASIO, as well as VST, are proprietary, non-free. While their creator,
Steinberg, gives out the development kit freely, this is not opensource.
Posting stuff made with this on Debian and other distribution lists may or
will be excluded. There may be a question whether or not WINE will/can
distribute such packages. The SDK for ASIO and VST must be obtained from
Steinberg. For example, two header files needed for VST compilations need be
taken from there and should not be included in source packages.

While jack may be "better", my dman2044 sound card sits unused under linux
because its technology is closed and therefore no ALSA support. Its asio
driver sits on my windows partition, waiting for that day. (To use a
"foreign" PCI device, more than an ASIO interface may be required since PCI
devices need be correctly initialized on startup.)

Would love to test this thing! BTW, one app that almost runs on WINE is
Tracktion (Many of its pop-dialogs simply never appear and must be dismissed
with ALT-F4 to continue) It ASIO option in there and it detects devices from
the windows/system directory. It can read its sample projects and attempt to
play them. Ready to go?
Received on Sun Sep 3 00:15:02 2006