identify this guitarware?

[fretski]

What guitar software is this man using?

Someone told me it was Guitar-Rig but now that I have spent the day pissing around with GR to no avail I'm beginning to wonder. The interface doesn't resemble GR at all. Is it something on a Mac maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrH90sF6Sxo

[fretski]

i meant 'based on what can be seen on the monitor in the left field'

[ssj71]

all I know is it doesn't look to me like anything that runs on linux.

Did you leave a comment on the video asking the author? I'd try that.

[fretski]

I did once, no response, suppose I could try again. I sometimes farm work out to a pro and he's on Mac+LogicPro, says most pros are on Macs too but that's midi work and not necessarily guitar recording. I've been trying to get GuitarRig going on Linux (to no avail) and that's how I began doubting the idea that it might be a guitar rig screen.

[glowrak guy]

Guitar Rig 4/5 and Player work fine using reaper in wine, and have for many years.
I'm assuming you used wine to run the installer.

If by chance the installer didn't finish, or you hand-installed, you might need to create
some paths and folders, to match a windows install,
since NI scatter their various install componants about, like madmen.

To preview this post for accuracy, I have Amplitube 4 and Guitar Rig 5 running in wine-reaper,
and the linux reaper port hosting Guitar Rig 5 by means of Airwave.
So don't give up. Supply more details of your wine/guitar rig install, and linux and computer setup,
and you'll get things running soon.

A handy step-by-step Airwave guide, written by Luc is at this link:

viewtopic.php?f=48&t=15927

download airwave: https://github.com/phantom-code/airwave/releases

debian/ubuntu install with sudo dpkg - i name-of-your.deb

Cheers

[fretski]

Guitar Rig 4/5 and Player work fine using reaper in wine, and have for many years.
I'm assuming you used wine to run the installer.

If by chance the installer didn't finish, or you hand-installed, you might need to create
some paths and folders, to match a windows install,
since NI scatter their various install componants about, like madmen.

To preview this post for accuracy, I have Amplitube 4 and Guitar Rig 5 running in wine-reaper,
and the linux reaper port hosting Guitar Rig 5 by means of Airwave.
So don't give up. Supply more details of your wine/guitar rig install, and linux and computer setup,
and you'll get things running soon.

A handy step-by-step Airwave guide, written by Luc is at this link:

viewtopic.php?f=48&t=15927

download airwave: https://github.com/phantom-code/airwave/releases

debian/ubuntu install with sudo dpkg - i name-of-your.deb

Cheers

Thanks a lot. I will look into these. I got Guitar Rig installed ok o TumbleWeed, it runs but I cannot get any sound from it using my usb guitar interface. I'll be back after the weekend with a heads-up

[glowrak guy]

Do you have wineasio installed, and chosen as your asio device in your DAW preferences?

If it's in your repo, after installing it on a 64 bit system,
normal user must run these 2 commands:

wine64 regsvr32 wineasio.dll

wine regsvr32 wineasio.dll

On a 32 bit system, just the second command.

Success will be confirmed in terminal output.

Also make sure the track GR5 is on has audio input, and not midi.
Reaper defaults to midi input, and I routinely forget to switch it.
Cheers

[fretski]

Do you have wineasio installed, and chosen as your asio device in your DAW preferences?

If it's in your repo, after installing it on a 64 bit system,
normal user must run these 2 commands:

wine64 regsvr32 wineasio.dll

wine regsvr32 wineasio.dll

On a 32 bit system, just the second command.

Success will be confirmed in terminal output.

Also make sure the track GR5 is on has audio input, and not midi.
Reaper defaults to midi input, and I routinely forget to switch it.
Cheers

I tried on two Suse systems and on KxStudio with mixed results, none working. I have another thread 'KxStudio on Debian' and I'm going to work that for the rest of the week. If I cannot get GR5 going on Suse than my next pref will be Debian with the derivatives coming after that. Spent the day on this ubuntu thing and it's way of refusing to allow unrestricted root access doesn't do it for me

[glowrak guy]

Google suse wineasio and you'll find wineasio.rpm files to manually install,
if there is not one in your repository. The rest is mainly
the same dance in any linux you choose,

you need a jackd install, v1 or v2
you need a connections patchbay, qjackctl will do
you need wine installed, after installing it, run the command

winecfg to set it up, the .wine folder will then be created,
and go through the winecfg config tabs to set a couple things up.

Then install and register wineasio as I mentioned above,
in suse, download a wineasio .rpm and root user installs it with

rpm - i name-of.rpm

Next, create this path of folders for wine to use,
so GR5 plugin has 'a place to land'

/home/you/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steinberg/VstPlugins for 32bit

/home/you/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins for 64bit

(the plugin works fine, the standalone may or may not, based on wine sundries)

Because NI installers scatter stuff far and wide, do a thorough
search of a windows install, to make sure the other folders used by GR5 componants
are all available. This will also pave the way for future Native Instruments apps
you may like. Installer logs from a win setup may exist, and help.

Now install GR5, and use the above path when it asks where to put the plugin.

wine name-of-GR5-installer.exe

The standalone version will go to

.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Native Instruments/Guitar Rig 5 for 32bit

.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Native Instruments/Guitar Rig 5 for 64 bit

Next, install reaper 5.40, from http://www.reaper.fm, under 10 meg

wine name-of-installer.exe

Next, start qjackctl, and set up your audio input and output devices,

http://www.libremusicproduction.com has an important guide for
configuring jackd/qjackctl. You're hungry and thirsty by now.

When that's ready, start reaper, (it will scan for vsts during startup.)

wine name-of-executable.exe

and in reaper Options-->Preferences menu,
in Device preferences, choose ASIO, and wineasio right below it.

In the MIDI Devices area, next down in the menu,
select and enable your midi devices.

In the main reaper gui, empty area, upper left corner,
right click for a popup menu, and select
'insert virtual instrument on new track'.
When the plugin list appears, click VST from the list,
and GR5 should be available.

For real guitar, or other audio input,
in the new track's horizontal channel strip,
right click the text saying 'MIDI All: All channels',
and in the popup, choose either mono, or stereo input.
For software synths, keep it on midi.

Reaper demo runs unrestricted for 60 days, a semi-pro license
costs $60, so chuck a buck in the truck everyday, for two months,
and it's yours!

And the rest will become history.
Cheers

[fretski]

I don't know how to thank you glowrak guy, for writing up a guide like that! Should I be successful I'll certainly come back and write up a detailed one for Suse users. It looks like my Debian install will move forward too so I won't be short on things to do

[glowrak guy]

Suse users played a key role in birthing high end linux audio,
and the use of windows plugins in linux.
The suse based Jacklab audio distro was to me, a groundbreaking experience.
It's developers are probably still at it, under various niks, and sometimes
were harsh critics of their own pioneering work, without which
we'd not be here today. There were other early distros, DeMudi, CCRMA,
Dynebolic, really great efforts from so many talented hard working people.
Cheers

[glowrak guy]

I don't know how to thank you glowrak guy, for writing up a guide like that!

The best thankyou? # Pound that record button til it bleeds 64th note runs, and pass it on







(Honesty, if I don't write things down every so often, it all starts getting fuzzy,
and I then i wind up getting demoted
Cheers

[fretski]

I don't know how to thank you glowrak guy, for writing up a guide like that!

The best thankyou? # Pound that record button til it bleeds 64th note runs, and pass it on
(Honesty, if I don't write things down every so often, it all starts getting fuzzy,
and I then i wind up getting demoted
Cheers

hehe, I have no such problems, I have exceptional memory; it's just that it's a little short

About your Suse remarks, I started with v-4.x if not late 3.x but am not much of a computer type so I'm still a novice but I feel no pain really. I think what is truly regrettable in light of all that talent is the overall policy of paranoid 'rights' compliance. Maybe they have much bigger plans for Suse.