Anyone successfully running ableton in a VM
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- KVRer
- 11 posts since 30 Oct, 2022
If so what's your setup? Are you using external gear? I'm asking because the convenience of crating snapshots in VMs and having basically an easily clonable environment that carries over without hassle to anywhere is quite nice
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35529 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
I find the performance hit on non-realtime software to be annoying enough, no way I'd run audio software in one.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 11 posts since 30 Oct, 2022
Of course nothing that is super time critical like a DJing software. But for production, of course depending on your input method, its not too bad actually. Forget about real time jamming though, that's just weird. But yeah, I agree theres room for improvement
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- KVRAF
- 7426 posts since 19 Apr, 2002 from Utah
To have your best experience with a VM and low latency, you’ll want to use a type 1 hyperviser over a type 2. In other words, instead of using the easy to use Virtualbox, use an Intel vPro Platform (or compatible)/ KVM / QEMU / LibVirt / Virt-manager /virt-viewer as your emulation stack. This will greatly improve performance. In addition to that, you are going to want to use “Passthrough” for your PCIe/USB audio card. If you do these things, you should be able to successfully run Ableton in a VM at low latencies. 
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