airwave

Airwave is a WINE-based VST bridge, that allows for the use of Windows 32- and 64-bit VST 2.4 audio plugins with Linux VST hosts

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Airwave is a WINE-based VST bridge, that allows for the use of Windows 32- and 64-bit VST 2.4 audio plugins with Linux VST hosts

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Jan 23	2017-01-23 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-30 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Jan 30	2017-01-30 00:00:00 UTC	2017-02-06 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 6	2017-02-06 00:00:00 UTC	2017-02-13 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 13	2017-02-13 00:00:00 UTC	2017-02-20 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 20	2017-02-20 00:00:00 UTC	2017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 27	2017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC	2017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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jonathonf·Mar 3, 2017

I upgraded to 2.0 specifically (and despite the new "12 months of updates" license) because they do Linux. Reaper is good, but Bitwig is much easier to get into. Also, if anyone doesn't know about Airwave [1] they should check it out for running their Windows VST instruments (or those from e.g. vst4free.com [2]). What annoys me about music software, though, is the way the authors/companies have special offers which are time-bound. Free u-he VST instruments if bought within a two-week window? Eh? What about the people who already bought the software? Or did beta testing? Or... ? [1] https://github.com/phantom-code/airwave/ [2] http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?plugin=TAL-Elek7ro&id=6...

In Linux becoming a professional multimedia platform

hrnnnnnn·Jan 25, 2017

There are some VST bridge programs that use WINE underneath. I haven't actually used any yet so I can't attest to their usefulness. https://github.com/abique/vst-bridge https://github.com/phantom-code/airwave

In Wine 2.0 released