Have you tried running finale under Wine?
A quick Google search shows it should run fine, and would probably
have less processor overhead than trying to run a VM.
-Bob
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Somebody made me attend on this list, specializing in sound problems.
>
> I write music semi-professionally and therefore have to use Finale,
> which is Windows only. I have installed Vmware where Windows XP is
> running as a guest and there I run Finale.
> The sound produced by any sound application in Windows is "stuttering"
> and distorted and quite unusable.
> System: AMD Phenom II (4-core, 2.4 GHz)) 4GB mem; Ubuntu Karmic.
> Sound is OK in Karmic (flash video's no problem, CD's no problem).
> Vmware : soundcard : autodetect. I have tried other possibilities but
> none worked better.
> I suspect pulse-audio, which I think is not a good development as I
> prefer good old ALSA without "embellishments". However, audacity, which
> I use regularly in Linux works without a problem.
> Can anybody give me some help to solve this problem as it is rather
> urgent and I don't want a system with Windows only.
> I hope somebody can help me out.
> Joep
>
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