Cubase and ZOOM Guitar Lab

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LMuser33
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Cubase and ZOOM Guitar Lab

Post by LMuser33 »

Hello all, thank you for accepting me to the forum!
As this is my first post, i would like to ask if i can use some "musician's" friendly distribution but i am afraid it will collide with some software i already have installed in windows.

Cubase LE AI Elements 8 64bit + eLicenser Control Center,
ZOOM Guitar Lab + usb connection to guitar pedal zoom g5n

I would like to keep on using the same software if possible, without switching to something alternative.

Thanks guys!
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Re: Cubase and ZOOM Guitar Lab

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Recently someone reported some success with eLicenser running in wine-staging. You might consider
starting with avlinux distro, most things installed, and updating it to the latest wine-staging, and see how far
you get with Cubase, if it installs, opens, loads a plugin, can be registered.
When wine is installed, run this command from a terminal,

winecfg (a panel for settings opens, so you can see what choices exist.)

For installing/launching cubase, use these terminal commands:

wine name-of-installer.exe or

wine msiexec -i name-of.msi

wine name-of-cubase.exe (to start it)

wine name-of-ikok-manager.exe

wine name-of-zoom-utilities.exe

In the terminal command output, you may find clues to help further your installation.

For linux audio basics I would study this guide:

http://libremusicproduction.com/article ... arted-jack

Things mentioned often have youtube videos, including qjackctl, a gui to manage software and hardware connections.

Keep us updated, success may be down the road, rather than instant.
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Re: Cubase and ZOOM Guitar Lab

Post by LMuser33 »

Thank you very much for your reply.
I was wondering if it will work if i just put all this software in a virtual machine? will i have issues with the usb port connected to the pedal perhaps?
some latency due to the usb will be connected to host machine physically but will be used for the virtual machine?
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Re: Cubase and ZOOM Guitar Lab

Post by glowrak guy »

Sorry, I've no knolwledge of virtual machines at all.

Assuming you've used Synaptic package manager
to install qjackctl (it will bring in other needed apps automatically),
find it's 'Periods/Buffer' setting and make it 3 (good for usb devices)
Start your linux computer with the Zoom unplugged,
and run a couple of terminal commands,


arecord -l

aplay -l

This will list what the kernel sees as audio input and output devices,
within brackets.
Then repeat the commands after inserting the Zoom, and compare the displayed
information. If the zoom is recognized by the kernel, it should be
mentioned in the output of arecord -l . Your computer audio interface
or soundchip should be mentioned in the output of aplay -l

In qjackctl 'Advanced' tab, on the right side, click the widgets by

Input Device
Output Device.

You should see text like that listed within brackets ,
or it can be edited into the dropdown text.

When you quit qjackctl, such changes are stored
in a text file, .jackdrc which is found in your /home/username folder,
and useful for quick troubleshooting over the years.

This will be a little progress, even if at first take, it's in geekgreek
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Re: Cubase and ZOOM Guitar Lab

Post by Musicteacher »

Sorry, but it doesn´t make sense to make music in a virtual machine. Period.

You can pass the usb devices through (at least with virtual box, I have done so), so doing that is at least theoretically possible, but all in all it doesn´t make sense at all.

If you don´t like windows for some reason, windows won´t get any better when running in a virtual machine.
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