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To whom it may concern, I am just writing this to confirm that Pianoteq works on a Lenovo T490s laptop with Linux Mint with an old Lexicon Lambda audio interface and a Korg microkey connected. Also tested Organteq and it works fine. Just don't mess with the sound settings at the bottom right, the sound starts to crackle. Yes, I'd followed the advice in the readme about CPU frequency throttling. BTW here's a list of compatible audio interfaces: https://interfacinglinux.com/linux-comp...nterfaces/ and I've read that the cheap Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 also works plug-and-play.

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Re: Installed on Linux Mint and it works!

Grateful that Pianoteq and Organteq work so well in Linux.

Regarding adjusting CPU frequency scaling/throttling in Linux, The cpupower-gui utility app is very handy. Have been using it, and Pianoteq and Organteq in Linux Mint for quite a few years.

cpupower-gui
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https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/20...frequency/
https://github.com/vagnum08/cpupower-gui/releases


https://i.imgur.com/qcvKudE.png

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Re: Installed on Linux Mint and it works!

Well, I've never used Linux so took an old T100TA, downloaded Fedora 41 and completely wiped the old Windoze 8.1 OS and installed said Linux Distribution - it works great apart from the internal camera not showing - no fix thus far offered helps? I'm investigating...

Sorry I digressed for a moment - downloaded OrganTeq 2 and installed it set the audio accordingly and yes it works, but I can't go mad on it ! Okay for a few stop combinations but high CPU usage being shown. I might have a go with the older OT1.

I quite like the terminal - reminds me of old DOS when I was a pretty young slip of a thing starting with my first 386 PC and getting all excited about WYSIWYG offered by WordPerfect. No more blind codes to produce interesting documents...

Sorry digressing again...

Long story short - Linux is great ! and FREE !!! and FULLY SUPPORTED !!!!!!!

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Re: Installed on Linux Mint and it works!

DEZ wrote:

Well, I've never used Linux so took an old T100TA, downloaded Fedora 41 and completely wiped the old Windoze 8.1 OS and installed said Linux Distribution - it works great apart from the internal camera not showing - no fix thus far offered helps? I'm investigating...

It's been a long time since I last used Fedora, so I don't know. Most likely you can find a solution, it's very rare for hw to not work on Linux nowadays -- but you have to find the driver which might be tricky.

DEZ wrote:

Sorry I digressed for a moment - downloaded OrganTeq 2 and installed it set the audio accordingly and yes it works, but I can't go mad on it ! Okay for a few stop combinations but high CPU usage being shown. I might have a go with the older OT1.

Most likely OT1 has the same CPU footprint of OT2. Check the real CPU utilization (in addition to the OT-reported one) with system monitor. Check also if you have other processes which you can "renice" to lower priority or even eliminate. On the Linux side, you can really tune the OS to be super-lean and give all the CPU horsepower to OT/PT if you want (check for various posts on that topic on this forum)

On the OT/PT side, you may need to tweak the polyphony settings, latency, bit count and all that other things as typical in any OS.

Where do I find a list of all posts I upvoted? :(

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Re: Installed on Linux Mint and it works!

Thanks dv for the heads-up. I tried Mint on the same machine and boy! What a palaver!

It had installed, but won't boot! Checking the BIOS revealed two Ubuntu options - tried both. The disk partitions were all showing as mounted - tried both secured boot and 'unsecure', nothing, nothing, nothing. Tried reinstalling GRUB and just gave up - Fedora 41 is back on the machine.

Thought I'd post it in case anyone else is trying Linux and runs into the same kind of thing - I suspect using an old tablet is the problem!

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Re: Installed on Linux Mint and it works!

DEZ wrote:

Thanks dv for the heads-up. I tried Mint on the same machine and boy! What a palaver!

It had installed, but won't boot! Checking the BIOS revealed two Ubuntu options - tried both. The disk partitions were all showing as mounted - tried both secured boot and 'unsecure', nothing, nothing, nothing. Tried reinstalling GRUB and just gave up - Fedora 41 is back on the machine.

Thought I'd post it in case anyone else is trying Linux and runs into the same kind of thing - I suspect using an old tablet is the problem!

Maybe I'm unclear as to your problem. Mint is a desktop. It can be installed and run on Fedora as can others. You will still be booting into Fedora.

https://www.makeuseof.com/desktop-environments-fedora/

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levinite wrote:

Mint is a desktop. It can be installed and run on Fedora as can others. You will still be booting into Fedora.

Yes,  I had discovered that other 'spins' can be installed - before reading your comment - through dnf - though you need to be a 'superuser' ie prefix with sudo and it will ask you to sign in. So I've tried 'Cinammon' it's more windoze-like if you're like me; new to Linux.

Fedora is based on Red Hat; Mint on Ubuntu. I installed Mint on a friends old win 7 laptop, it works fine, looks great and is friendly for a windows user to get to grips with - but couldn't get it to run on an old tablet, namely Asus T100TA.

I'm currently testing Linux out for when Windows 10 support is stopped - none of my current machines will support Windows 11, and I'm not contributing to landfill and buying more electronic stuff rubbish with built-in obsolescence... I'm exploring alternatives.

Some of my graphic package updates now demand a better graphics card - so I use what I have (I no longer update them) - it was great in the past and suits me until such time as my brain succumbs to old-age related difficulties...

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DEZ wrote:
levinite wrote:

Mint is a desktop. It can be installed and run on Fedora as can others. You will still be booting into Fedora.

Yes,  I had discovered that other 'spins' can be installed - before reading your comment - through dnf - though you need to be a 'superuser' ie prefix with sudo and it will ask you to sign in. So I've tried 'Cinammon' it's more windoze-like if you're like me; new to Linux.

Fedora is based on Red Hat; Mint on Ubuntu. I installed Mint on a friends old win 7 laptop, it works fine, looks great and is friendly for a windows user to get to grips with - but couldn't get it to run on an old tablet, namely Asus T100TA.

I'm currently testing Linux out for when Windows 10 support is stopped - none of my current machines will support Windows 11, and I'm not contributing to landfill and buying more electronic stuff rubbish with built-in obsolescence... I'm exploring alternatives.

Some of my graphic package updates now demand a better graphics card - so I use what I have (I no longer update them) - it was great in the past and suits me until such time as my brain succumbs to old-age related difficulties...

I don't know what you have tried or why it won't boot but what you might want to try is initially booting a live distro from a usb stick by setting the boot order in bios. Linux doesn't install anything but runs in memory. If it boots up, then you should be able do install Linux from the Linux gui which will give you access to completely clear the hd of windoze. If it does nothing there is probably a bios setting causing the issue.

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Re: Installed on Linux Mint and it works!

you can use

https://codeberg.org/rtcqs/rtcqs

to help make sure your real time audio config is in good shape.  this really helped me with my setup.

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