Hello fellow pirates! I made the switch to Linux almost a year ago and i really really really miss producing music. I honestly don’t want to bother with Ardour. Bitwig can’t be pirated afaik and my 4-Track license is just way too limiting for serious production. I really miss Ableton but i don’t really want to dualboot if there’s a way around it.
I was able to install Ableton and it works, but the crack doesn’t work due to some hardware-id shenanigans.
Has anyone else tried this? What options do i have? (Winboat, Wine, VMStudio etc.) Or shouldn’t i even bother and just bite the bullet and dualboot?
Alternatively: Is there a way to pirate a recent version of BitWig?
If you need low latency audio (ie, live music) Windows programs have to do a lot of ugly tricks to do this efficiently on Windows, and it’s different from the ugly tricks you have to do on Linux, and even if wine can attempt to translate the tricks from one to the other you may struggle trying to make this work well cross-platform to in Linux AFAIK.
However if you’re just doing all-digital production I don’t see why wine wouldn’t work. Other people seem to have had success minus the latency issue I mentioned. And most of that was years ago, it mentions people are working on improving it, and honestly, Wine has come a really long way in the last 2 years. I’d recommend giving it a shot and see how it goes.