EZDrummer 2 working with Linux (WINE)

[atoms.h]

I thought I share my experience getting EZDrummer 2 working under Linux.

What works: EZDrummer 2 (32 bit) works with wine in combination with JACK. From my perspective EZD2 appears to be fully functional and I was able to record drum tracks in Ardour.
What doesn’t work: JACK transport.

My system is as follows:
– OS: Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (4.4.0-45-generic GNU/Linux)
– JACK: 1.9.11
– QJACKCTL: 0.4.11
– ALSA : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version k4.4.0-45-generic
– WINE: wine-1.6.2, wineasio-i386 (0.9.0+git20110613-2kxstudio3)

Installation:
With WINE, straight forward.

Setup:
Start JACK (with QJACKCTL). Use the alsa driver. Realtime.
(/usr/bin/jackd -v -t1000 -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p256 -n2 -i2 -o2 -O1)
Disable “Enable D-Bus interface”.
NOTE: Obviously the settings somewhat depend on your specific sound system. Especially the IO device and the channels.
If you are using pulseaudio you have to stop it BEFORE you start JACK. It’s also a good
idea to kill possible jackd instances. For this purpose I have QJACKCTL execute simple startup and shutdown scripts
############################
jackd_startup.sh
1 #!/bin/bash
2
3 killall pulseaudio; killall jackd

Jackd_down.sh
1 pulseaudio -D
############################
*IMPORTANT* It is VERY important, and this was taking me a long time to figure out, to
start JACK with 44.1 kHz!

In EZDrummer 2 open “Audio/MIDI Setup…”
Device type: ASIO
ASIO device: WineASIO

That should be all or at least close enough to get EZD2 up and running. The most important points for me were the sampling rate and the ASIO driver. The graphics can be a little sluggish, though.
Downloading and installing expansions and updates works with WINE as well.

Topic