Acoustica for LINUX ??

[Frankie.T]

I don't know if it works, but since dependencies and different distros i think a flatpack would solve all the related issues

[audiojunkie]

It is still possible that it may work as is in WINE. Has anyone tested it? Is there a demo version that can be tried?

[FdelS]

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It is still possible that it may work as is in WINE. Has anyone tested it? Is there a demo version that can be tried?

I have tested it during the time each new version they release, but I have the same problem reported here by someone: https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=37424 (https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=37424)

I've tested it right now with version 7.5.1 under wine 8.0.2 on Ubuntu KDE and here are some screenshots. Exactly the same happens; while moving the mouse objects became visible, and I'm able to navigate through menus, even to record, but when tying to insert the recorded audio or to open a file, it crashes on the whave editor mode.

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But in the multitrack session I was able to import a long file, play it, apply effects and export it.

I think it's a good thing, with some tweaking it could be an easy way to implement Acoustica on Linux, although a Flatpak version would be much preferable, of course.


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I do not know how difficult it can be, but JUCE (https://juce.com/) claims to be able to deliver on linux

[audiojunkie]

Bummer. I noticed that Tone2 is now supporting Linux with WINE for their synths. There is a steadily growing handful of developers that are starting to support Linux this way. Hopefully the bugs will get fixed and we'll be able to use this cool tool on Linux in the future.

[stian]

Would you be able to work with a Wine version or would a Linux version be mandatory?

Best,
Stian

[FdelS]

Would you be able to work with a Wine version or would a Linux version be mandatory?

Thanks for your interest, as a Linux user, I have some daily use applications that are not released for linux, but they are compatible with Wine standards and I work daily without problems with them, having Acoustica compatible with Wine would be a luxury , and for me, more than enough.

To easily introduce the software to the whole Linux community, having a version published in a cross repository as flatpack would be ideal, but of course with a version that can run in Wine is more than enough and 100% functional, having a flatpack version would be only to easily penetrate a new community that lacks on quality software like this.

[runagate]

I was pretty impressed by the (speech) captioning feature. I put something in there I couldn't make heads or tails of with my ears but Acoustica immediately got at least most of it right, and I cannot emphasize how terrible the speech and recording were, amazing it got anything at all from it. Very, very useful.

[audiojunkie]

Would you be able to work with a Wine version or would a Linux version be mandatory?

Best,
Stian

Native is always preferred, but usable in WINE is sufficient if supported by the company. Right now, Audacity is at least a year away from getting the gui scaling support for high resolution monitors. Audacity is really the only main competitor (when considering the feature list. Does Acoustica support scaling on high resolution monitors?

[audiojunkie]

Stian, The flatpak idea is a good one. It may be even easier for you using something like Winepak. Have you considered something like Winepak? It may be the easiest way to go, as long as Acoustica doesn’t use plugins. Does Acoustica support plugins?

https://github.com/winepak/winepak

[fathomstory]

Yes, I have used this successfully on Linux for years, but you have to find and install an early version. Same with iZotope RX advanced. Newer versions are too much of a hassle. Later Windows programs have more libraries, more telemetry and other not-so-goodies they use to make it work. If you want Acoustica and attendant plugins to run on Wine, go back a few years. For newer versions, Acon Digital would have to want to develop on Linux to make it really work. I am no fan of Flatpack, it eats up hard drive space and is not an elegant solution. Other audio solutions (on Linux) are Harrison Mixbus (and their plugin suite) but I had trouble importing video, Lightworks, DaVinci Resolve (studio), Reaper--if we are talking audio-for-video and a plugin option is https://www.acmt.co.uk/ . If music, then there are a lot more options, like Bitwig, Renoise, Ardour, Traktion Waveform, again Harrison Mixbus...

[euanek]

Bitwig, Audio Damage, U-he release bitwig distros these days. Acon Digital would be a great addition, especially with the excellent restoration suite and verberate.

[FdelS]

Good contribution fathomstory and euanek all of these look great, but for me Acoustica has something that I thing is missing from all of these which is the well managed audio editor (in this I mean wave editor).... Hopefully someday they will join the growing linux community before it's too late.
BTW do you know of any software (linux available) that handles wave editing well (except Audition)? I will love to stop using a virtual machine to run Acoustica when needed.