Hi,
I originally was creating a long winded detailed post about how I've been trying to move from Windows to Linux 100% but always stopped by needing certain Windows applications or hardware and the ease of use of Windows. Well, Mixcraft was one of the applications I had intended to run in Linux and my audio interface Babyface Pro FS were preventing me from making the move.
Good news: I've been able to run and install Mixcraft 10.1 in Wine virtually problem free. Though I've installed and changed a lot of things, I think for the most part it should work out of the box with these steps.
As openSUSE isn't usually a distro most desktop users use, it may be a little different than you're used to. The main program and system management is handled through an application called YaST which requires root privileges. However KDE plasma and Gnome functions pretty much the same across distros so the desktop experience shouldn't be much different.
1. openSUSE Linux Leap 15.5 installed on a separate bootable SATA SSD plugged into a USB port. I installed it next to Windows but not sharing the main boot record as the Windows drive. This allows the SSD to have a GRUB boot loader installed that queries the computer for all operating systems and lists them to select to boot from; also the drive can be unplugged and moved to another computer and be bootable from there as well.
2. In Leap, I installed a ton of audio and video codecs including ffmpeg
3. Made sure everything related to QT was installed
4. Installed everything related to Wine through Yast including Winetricks
5. Always install the development libraries as well as the main libraries. In the list on Yast there will almost always be a corresponding development library
6. Install Carla, Alsa, OSD, Jack audio connection kit, Ardour, ladspa
There's probably a bunch of other audio related stuff. These may not all be necessary but they may load other libraries that help Mixcraft run.
Though I think the main thing is Wine, Jack, Alsa and Pulseaudio and FFmpeg.
Add a Mixcraft folder to your Download Folder in Leap
Download the Mixcraft installer into Mixcraft folder
Right Click on the Installer and choose Open with Wine
Follow the instructions. It may ask you to install Microsoft Net C/C++ . Agree
Allow the default folder locations for everything
When it is done, it should add shortcuts to your plasma desktop. The only problem is they dont work.
Right Click on a Shortcut > Properties > Application Tab
Delete everything in the Environmental Variables line.
on the Arguments line, add
'/home/[user name]/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Acoustica Mixcraft 10/Mixcraft10.exe'
replace [user name] with whatever the user name is
Be sure to include the single quotes
I originally was creating a long winded detailed post about how I've been trying to move from Windows to Linux 100% but always stopped by needing certain Windows applications or hardware and the ease of use of Windows. Well, Mixcraft was one of the applications I had intended to run in Linux and my audio interface Babyface Pro FS were preventing me from making the move.
Good news: I've been able to run and install Mixcraft 10.1 in Wine virtually problem free. Though I've installed and changed a lot of things, I think for the most part it should work out of the box with these steps.
As openSUSE isn't usually a distro most desktop users use, it may be a little different than you're used to. The main program and system management is handled through an application called YaST which requires root privileges. However KDE plasma and Gnome functions pretty much the same across distros so the desktop experience shouldn't be much different.
1. openSUSE Linux Leap 15.5 installed on a separate bootable SATA SSD plugged into a USB port. I installed it next to Windows but not sharing the main boot record as the Windows drive. This allows the SSD to have a GRUB boot loader installed that queries the computer for all operating systems and lists them to select to boot from; also the drive can be unplugged and moved to another computer and be bootable from there as well.
2. In Leap, I installed a ton of audio and video codecs including ffmpeg
3. Made sure everything related to QT was installed
4. Installed everything related to Wine through Yast including Winetricks
5. Always install the development libraries as well as the main libraries. In the list on Yast there will almost always be a corresponding development library
6. Install Carla, Alsa, OSD, Jack audio connection kit, Ardour, ladspa
There's probably a bunch of other audio related stuff. These may not all be necessary but they may load other libraries that help Mixcraft run.
Though I think the main thing is Wine, Jack, Alsa and Pulseaudio and FFmpeg.
Add a Mixcraft folder to your Download Folder in Leap
Download the Mixcraft installer into Mixcraft folder
Right Click on the Installer and choose Open with Wine
Follow the instructions. It may ask you to install Microsoft Net C/C++ . Agree
Allow the default folder locations for everything
When it is done, it should add shortcuts to your plasma desktop. The only problem is they dont work.
Right Click on a Shortcut > Properties > Application Tab
Delete everything in the Environmental Variables line.
on the Arguments line, add
'/home/[user name]/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Acoustica Mixcraft 10/Mixcraft10.exe'
replace [user name] with whatever the user name is
Be sure to include the single quotes
Statistics: Posted by cactus-head — Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:01 pm