• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Firstly, thanks for the detailed response!

    It’s promising to hear that Ableton has a lot of support from the community. I suppose given the versioning issues something like nix could be used to manage the wine versioning more deliberately.

    I’ve got a focusrite interface, so if your latency is low, I imagine I’d probably get the same experience. I know I’ll probably lose the iPad remote control features too as I think that’s baked into the windows driver.

    Given I do have a pretty extensive VST collection, it’s a shame, but you’re probably right. Do you know how heavily developed Yabridge is? Do you think the industry moving slowly to CLAP plugins might improve this situation?

    Maybe dual-boot is a better option to start with, I guess that way if I feel like trying to get it working I can give it a go.

    Do you have any plugins that use iLok? Either software or a hardware key

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      6 months ago

      No problem!

      -Yabridge is still actively being developped. The developer responds to issues on it’s Github frequently.

      -Ableton 11.x currently has gold status on WineDB. other versions have varying ratings bronze to platinum.

      -I don’t use iLok plugins a lot, but I just tried installing one. iLok gave an error for me. Some searching gave me a thread about a user that got a specific iLok version to work though, so you may need to experiment with this yourself: This thread

      I don’t know much about CLAP since I always used VSTs (Cubase user after all :P ). I hope more developers will implement it as an alternative, but I don’t have high hopes. .Au could only become a standard because of Apple’s willingness to not support VSTs in Logic. I’m not sure if a third-party format can shift that much weight. All DAWS either support VST, AU or AAX and I don’t think developers want ANOTHER format to maintain.