I went to download and it shows WIN listed as 32/64 bit but Linux is 32 bit only. Performance on 64 bit system for 32 bit s/w is less than optimum. I am forced to shut down some applications (such as WiFi) or the cpu overloads even on playback of a "last played on keyboard" midi. I am using Kubuntu 16.04.4 64 bit, low latency, with KDE and plasma 5.9.
I went to download and it shows WIN listed as 32/64 bit but Linux is 32 bit only. Performance on 64 bit system for 32 bit s/w is less than optimum. I am forced to shut down some applications (such as WiFi) or the cpu overloads even on playback of a "last played on keyboard" midi. I am using Kubuntu 16.04.4 64 bit, low latency, with KDE and plasma 5.9.
Winthrom, here it is 64 bit. Watch the output of the command "file" applied on my Pianoteq Standard (v6.4.1) binary:
file Pianoteq\ 6
Pianoteq 6: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32,[...]
After extracting the 7zip file, you should find the 64-bit version in the folder named amd64.
From the readme :
Pianoteq for Linux as available as a standalone application, vst plugin and lv2, for three architecture:
* amd64 : for 64-bit intel or amd x86 processors (recommended).
* i386 : for 32-bit intel or amd x86 processors.
* arm : for arm processors (see the notes below).
Hehe, I bet few people still remember that the x86 64-bit instructions were developed by AMD because Intel originally backed the wrong 64-bit ship (Itanium) -- which is why in Linux systems, everything is still marked as AMD64 .
By the way, huge kudos to Pianoteq for making Linux versions in the first place. This together with the amazing sympathetic reasonance were absolutely the deciding factors in me giving them my business.