This entry was originally published at davehayes.org

I’ve updated this HOWTO to work with Ubuntu Hardy and the latest (as of this writing) wineasio and fixed the link to Steinberg’s site. If you notice any errors, please let me know so I can fix them. I also need to say thanks to Peter Jones for his work on wineasio and the information he contributed to this howto.

You may have already heard about REAPER. If not, REAPER is an extremely powerful digital audio workstation brought to you by the creator of Winamp. It’s also very reasonably priced. Unfortunately, it’s also Windows based, which presents a problem for people like me who avoid Microsoft products like the plague. REAPER can run under Linux with Wine, but up until recently that solution has left a lot to be desired (even compared to current Linux-based audio production solutions). The reason for this is because REAPER had to use the standard wavemapper interface to get audio to play. To put it mildly, that sucks. Even then it was very unreliable.

The other day, my friend Aaron (pipelineaudio) turned me on to a project called wineasio (or wine asio). What this does is allow REAPER to use the ASIO interface, which works much better. wineasio takes the connections from the ASIO interface and exposes them to JACK, which gives you a whole world of routing and configuration possibilities as well as a reasonably low latency interface to your soundcard. So, let’s get started.

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