EnergyXT 2.7 Linux (32bit) on a 64bit Machine

[GMaq]

Hi,

Some recent discussions on KVR's forum got my butt in gear and my curiousity piqued about getting good ole EnergyXT 2.7 Linux (32bit as we're painfully aware) running on a 64bit Linux system and by gum I did it!



Then some extra goodness from LinVST meant I can run both 32bit LinuxVST native plugins and 32bit WinVST Plugins. As proof of concept the picture above has Aspect, Helm, BlackEQ2 and TAL Reverb as Linux VST's running alongside SFZ, Couture and FabFilter Pro-L3 as 32bit WinVST's converted with LinVST..

Probably a waste of time for most people but I'm just happy to know I can get this up and running on a 64bit distro.. I personally have never found a better and more intuitive MIDI Sequencer on Linux than EnergyXT, it has many flaws on the Audio side but for the little bit of MIDI work I do it gets things done very quickly and easily and so far even with the plugin juggling act it is quite stable. This was all done on AV Linux 2019 but I made deb packages of my work if anyone wants to be a lab rat on another Debian/Ubuntu-based distro I can share them, just reply here..

While the Windows version of EnergyXT 3.0 works in Wine on a 64bit Linux system, I have some Audio artifacts and clicks and pops and dropouts with WineASIO and the Linux version seems to be more stable at lower latency settings.

[bhilmers]

XT super-fan here. Is this fairly safe to install on my system along with the Windows version in WINE? I am currently running 64-bit Linux Mint 19.1 with wine-staging. I might have time this weekend to play around with it.

[GMaq]

Hi bhilmers!

I have 2 systems here with EnergyXT 3.0 and the Linux 2.7 version both installed and they really don't interact with each other so one shouldn't bother the other, I am also using Wine Staging BTW.. I wouldn't suggest swapping the sessions back and forth between the two and I am still figuring out plugin placements.. For now I have a folder of sandboxed 32bit LinuxVST plugins and a folder of sandboxed WinVST Plugins both in /opt so they are not in a standard plugin path so shouldn't cause any harm to any other program that access the regular plugin paths..

Here is a link to my KVR post with a mini-guide to how I set it up a couple of posts down from the the OP:
https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopi ... 6&t=540697

I also made a special LinVST package with both 64bit and 32bit versions of 'linvst.so' because the 32bit WinVST's won't seem to work in EnergyXT unless they've been converted specifically by the 32bit version of LinVST (not the 64 bit version that also can host 32bit plugins).. It's all been a lot of trial and error that I've managed to roll into a few Deb packages.