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It would be nice to see a version of BIAB for Linux sometime in the near future.
We have one for Windows and Macintosh.
We had one for Atari years ago.
A BIAB user for more than 30 years (if you can believe it) !
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❓ Would one version of Band-in-a-Box for Linux work with all Linux Distros or would the program need to be Distro specific?
Also, wouldn't the audio and midi settings be complicated since each Distro has a unique set of features?
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❓ Would one version of Band-in-a-Box for Linux work with all Linux Distros or would the program need to be Distro specific? Mostly not other than for the different CPUs, mostly x86 and Arm. The OS architecture remains the same, so that should mostly be a build. A number of applications have targeted installer to suit specific distributions, but just about every distribution supports both .deb and apt. Some applications use an install script, which allows making decisions about the specific distribution, e.g., do you want this installed for just you, or for everyone, installed in home, or in /opt or in /usr/local. Some decisions can be automatic, e.g., if I'm installing as root, then this is likely an install available for everyone on the machine. Also, wouldn't the audio and midi settings be complicated since each Distro has a unique set of features? There is a bit of an issue on Linux in that there are several audio-handling systems around, those intended for serious use and those aimed at naive users and they don't always work together as seamlessly as one might like. That said, I think the low-level drivers now are probably always ALSA, to which one can always connect and the "serious user" layer above that in the Jack Audio Connection Kit, which links all the audio and midi signals via a patching system. There are software bridges between things so the applications don't have to worry too much, though sometimes the users do. The layers for naive users are PulseAudio and PipeWire. The are for the "I want it to just work" users. Generally there are bridges between those and Jack, so serious audio applications probably ignore them. Reaper Audio is Jack or ALSA or PulseAudio or "Dummy Audio" (I presume the latter is a fake audio port). Ardour/Mixbus is Jack or ALSA or PulseAudio My older Renoise is Jack or ALSA MuseScore Studio uses "System Default" PianoTeq is Jack or ALSA There's a quite helpful explanation of Linux Audio here on YouTube (from 4 years ago and fairly techy). It explains some of the complications of audio on Linux. Against that, it shows things that simply can't(?) presently be done at all on Windows.
Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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BIAB2026 Audiophile, a bunch of other software.
Kawai MP6, Ui24R, Focusrite Saffire Pro40 and Scarletts
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This might work - one day- if PG moved to a codebase that is - for example - entirely - or say 90% based on a cross platform C++ library like JUCE or QT.. But as I understand things - the two current platforms supported now - Windows and Mac - still use ad require quite separate codebases - most likely mainly for the standalone GUI - although I'm pretty certain that over the decades much code has - for obvious reasons - become common to both wherever time and resources permit.
Were they to have a largely shared codebase - based as much as possible on - say JUCE - then Linux would become far more likely - seems to me anyway ...
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I have a BiaB 2019 running in VirtualBox, win7 guest on Ubuntu. Works fine.
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I have a BiaB 2019 running in VirtualBox, win7 guest on Ubuntu. Works fine. Thanks for letting us know! So from your experience do all BIAB features work seamlessly and there is no lagging etc.?
A BIAB user for more than 30 years (if you can believe it) !
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I had problems with lagging - midi against audio - using a midi output like microsoft gs wavetable synth or virtual midi synth. I could adjust latency but it run out of sync after a time anyway. But Dxi synths don't have these problems, they run out of the box without adjusting the latency. Only the built-in soundfontplayer VSTSynthFont64 (from BiaB 2019) is buggy and BiaB was unstable with it. I solved this getting a new version from here: synthfont.com. I use BiaB in Virtualbox for a week now and don't have problems to report up to now.
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I love the Linux platform. I'm on Windows since that handles most of my programs, but a Linux version is a great idea!
John
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