[cw-discuss] VST yes, but first...

[Francois Gouget]

Hi,

JJB wrote:
> I need MIDI!
> 
> How does one go about installing drivers under Crossover? For instance, 
> I have something that has a .drv file and an OEMSETUP.INF, normall 
> installed through the Add/Remove hardware control panel.

You cannot install Windows drivers in CrossOver because CrossOver is not 
Windows.

In order for MIDI to work, it must be supported by the native 
environment, either Linux or Mac OS X, and by the Wine sound 'backend' 
in use. So currently the only platform where I know CrossOver supports 
MIDI is on Linux with either the OSS or Alsa sound backends as these are 
the only two that support MIDI.

So to get MIDI working you should first check that it is supported by 
the Linux driver for your specific sound card. Then make sure CrossOver 
is using either the OSS or Alsa backends rather than the aRts or ESounD 
ones. And then, it should work... at least in theory. The trouble is 
that the supported applications don't use MIDI (or very rarely) so it is 
very rarely tested and may get broken without us noticing.


Regards,

-- 
Francois Gouget
fgouget at codeweavers.com