Anyone using Caustic (3.2) ?

[korakios]

3.1 seems to work via wine but can't make 3.2 to work

[Luc]

The same for me since 3.2 was released. But our fellow member tavasti has reported success running 3.2:

viewtopic.php?f=46&t=15412&p=79362

Go figure.

Either way, for some mysterious reason, I've found that everything in it sounds better if I run it on the Android device as intended and connect the device's audio output to my audio interface and route the signal into the DAW than it does if I run Caustic on Wine.

[tavasti]

3.1 seems to work via wine but can't make 3.2 to work

It just needs more recent libs, so needed winetricks are vcrun2013 (at least)

See also http://singlecellsoftware.com/node/3369

[korakios]

Hi,@tavasti
On the link you say:
"I have Ubuntu 16.04, running Wine-staging 2.14. I've done winetricks vcrun2013. Caustic 3.2 starts as black screen.

However, with ubuntu packed version, winetricks vcrun2013 and it runs."

What do you mean? I am on Debian with KXStudio repositories enabled (AVLinux) (wine staging 1.15)

I enabled temporarily the Sid repos (testing) and updated Winetricks, PlayOnLinux
-Winetricks cannot retrieve vcrun2013
-PlayOnLinux can't run Caustic with vcrun2013 (black screen)

[tavasti]

Hi,@tavasti
On the link you say:
"I have Ubuntu 16.04, running Wine-staging 2.14. I've done winetricks vcrun2013. Caustic 3.2 starts as black screen.

However, with ubuntu packed version, winetricks vcrun2013 and it runs."

What do you mean? I am on Debian with KXStudio repositories enabled (AVLinux) (wine staging 1.15)

I enabled temporarily the Sid repos (testing) and updated Winetricks, PlayOnLinux
-Winetricks cannot retrieve vcrun2013
-PlayOnLinux can't run Caustic with vcrun2013 (black screen)

With wine-staging 2.14 it did not run, with ubuntu wine ok. Now running Ubuntu 18.04 with wine 3.15, I suppose wine-devel? See https://www.winehq.org/ for wine versions.

[korakios]

Thanks @tavasti , I appreciate this
I already 3.15 staging and just tried with the 3.15 dev version.
I had some progress with actually seeing the GUI (not black screen) but I run across msvcr120.dll error.
With winetricks I can't download vcrun2013 (says it can't find it) and by manual downloading vcredist_x86.exe still doesn't help.
I guess I could try PlayOnLinux .but in that case I can't install wineasio!!!
Dead End I guess...

[tavasti]

With winetricks I can't download vcrun2013 (says it can't find it) and by manual downloading vcredist_x86.exe still doesn't help.
I guess I could try PlayOnLinux .but in that case I can't install wineasio!!!
Dead End I guess...

Maybe you have some outdated winetricks? I suppose I don't have wineasio, and because it is daw, not instrument you play live, I don't think latency will be issue? Or are you going to record midi with caustic on linux?

[korakios]

it must be a bug from winetricks and Debian combo. I manually downloaded
vcredist_x86 on
~/.cache/winetricks/vcrun2013/vcredist_x86.exe
then with
winetricks vcrun2013
installed fine

Updated to wine-dev from staging and worked
No need for setting 32bit prefix or setting wine to XP.

But updating to winehq-devel broke wineasio for low-latency. Since I use other apps I decided to leave Caustic for now until new versions come....

[tavasti]

Updated to wine-dev from staging and worked
No need for setting 32bit prefix or setting wine to XP.

But updating to winehq-devel broke wineasio for low-latency. Since I use other apps I decided to leave Caustic for now until new versions come....

You can have multiple wine versions and wine directories.

WINEPREFIX="/home/korakios/.wine-caustic" /opt/wine-devel/bin/wine Caustic.exe

For example, I have own wine directory for rocksmith, so that other stuff won't break it.

[Jack Winter]

For those experiencing problems with wineasio and various wine installations, check that the 32/64b wineasio.dll.so are installed in the right places. If they were installed in /usr/lib/wine, etc, it won't work with a wine installed in /opt or elsewhere. You'd have to copy the libs manually to the right place.

Note that this is unrelated to the concept of wineprefixes, though wineasio will have to be registered in each prefix.

[korakios]

I searched

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locate wineasio.dll.so

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/opt/wine-staging/lib/wine/wineasio.dll.so
/opt/wine-staging/lib64/wine/wineasio.dll.so
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/wine/wineasio.dll.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wine/wineasio.dll.so

Did

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regsvr32 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/wine/wineasio.dll.so

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regsvr32 /opt/wine-staging/lib/wine/wineasio.dll.so

But didn't work. It succesfully registered but wineasio is not shown.
I also couldn't remove the staging package cause of dependencies and maybe there was a mess (co-existed with dev). Although Caustic did work (without ASIO), every time I did something with wine (eg winecfg ot launch a windows app) I got a message something about "updating wine configuration", everytime.

Maybe setting a virtual-machine with networking audio from guest to host would easier for me....

[tavasti]

I searched

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locate wineasio.dll.so

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/opt/wine-staging/lib/wine/wineasio.dll.so
/opt/wine-staging/lib64/wine/wineasio.dll.so
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/wine/wineasio.dll.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wine/wineasio.dll.so

Did

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regsvr32 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/wine/wineasio.dll.so

or

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regsvr32 /opt/wine-staging/lib/wine/wineasio.dll.so

But didn't work. It succesfully registered but wineasio is not shown.
I also couldn't remove the staging package cause of dependencies and maybe there was a mess (co-existed with dev). Although Caustic did work (without ASIO), every time I did something with wine (eg winecfg ot launch a windows app) I got a message something about "updating wine configuration", everytime.

Maybe setting a virtual-machine with networking audio from guest to host would easier for me....

Your wineasio dll is under /opt/wine-staging and it does not work with wine-devel because that is under /opt/wine-devel/

[korakios]

Thanks all for the suggestions
I've decided to give up until Caustic comes as Linux native app (even paid)...
Hopefully if someone else comes to this thread finds useful info.
Maybe

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regsvr32 /opt/wine-devel/lib/wine/wineasio.dll.so

will also fix wineasio issues

[Jack Winter]

I don't think a virtual machine will work very well, at least if you want low latency. I did try a few years ago, and the result was pretty miserable, but the years have moved on, and I've actually been thinking about trying again to see what has improved.

Note that for 64b wineasio you need to do

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wine64 regsvr32 wineasio

adding /path/to/wineasio.dll.so is a good idea, never thought about that..

[korakios]

Off_Topic.
A VM with audio disabled and routing audio via network using dummy audio driver works fine Not realtime but acceptable (edit : almost real-time ) and far better than defaults!
PS. Reaper works that way (reastream)