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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by mastazi on Sunday September 29, 2019 @07:11AM (#21106391)
Oh of course, I like Bitwig very much! The modular engine ("Grid") is great! But I have a lot of material from the past in Live so, even if I switch to Bitwig, I may still need to use Live from time to time. But I guess a Win VM would suffice for that type of usage.
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by fnenrjfkdke on Sunday September 29, 2019 @07:51AM (#21106506)
Can confirm, was able to run Live 9 on W7 in VirtualBox on ~decade-old hardware earlier this year. It was easy and worked like a charm. Was running Arch Linux at the time, and used the VM images from here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by rtisdale on Sunday September 29, 2019 @08:15AM (#21106599)
How was the latency?

I'd like to achieve sub 10ms latency and I feel running in a VM would make that very difficult?

Did USB passthrough for MIDI devices work well?

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