{"id":50,"date":"2011-09-11T21:12:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T03:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2011-09-11T21:12:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T03:12:43","slug":"running-rebirth-on-linux-made-me-want-to-run-reason-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Running ReBirth on Linux made me want to run Reason too"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend I learned how to get Propellerhead<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ReBirth RB-338<\/a><\/em> to run on Ubuntu Linux<\/a> using Wine<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

It was great, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m quite happy to finally use my new-to-me used portable computer to make music instead of just using it for the typical online life bullshit. After all, I once had a very nice mobile music setup until I fried my laptop five years ago trying to run Linux and Palm Visor PDA<\/a> on it, and I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had any mobile music since. <\/p>\n

Since I got my netbook, I considered it only lightweight enough for web surfing and such. Then one day, I Googled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153run rebirth on linux<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and found a post describing how to do it<\/a> from a cool blog that I now follow. After about an hour of learning new things, like mounting ISOs, I got ReBirth RB-338<\/em> running on Linux, and it made me a happier camper at work that week. Now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m older and wiser and more patient to learn its not-too-intuitive ReBirth’s interface. It was perfect because ReBirth<\/em> is designed for small screens, which translates very well to a netbook.<\/p>\n

Later that week, I got zelous and wanted to run Reason<\/a><\/em> on this netbook and recreate the good ol\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 days of me making beats on the go. All week all I could really think about was how to get Reason<\/em> to run because this installation process wasn’t as easy as ReBirth<\/em> because uses several CDs. By Saturday night, I learned more about a corner of Linux that I wondered when would I ever learn about it (i.e. directories other than home\/<\/tt>, var\/<\/tt>, and etc\/<\/tt>), and then I messed up my netbook so badly that I had to re-install the operating system today, never getting Reason<\/em> to work. <\/p>\n

The silver lining was that during this installation of the OS, I documented all the installation steps that I’ve completed so far. If I had a real optical drive on the netbook, then it possibly could have been easier to get Reason<\/em> to run because the trick to it is to get Wine<\/em> to believe one is loading real CDs, which happen to be simply ISOs in my case. People have gotten newer versions than mine to work<\/a>, and other\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s have documented<\/a> the need to mount the ISOs, which I never successfully executed despite some unenthusiastic assistance<\/a> from the Wine community. <\/p>\n

I wonder if the problem was with my old version of Reason, version 2.5. I could bypass the whole issue regarding loading of CDs by using cracked software, but apparently my old version is not so easily available, and I insist on running the same version on the netbook as I do on my DAW, so that the same files could be played in both places. I insist on running legal software on my DAW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend I learned how to get Propellerhead\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ReBirth RB-338 to run on Ubuntu Linux using Wine. It was great, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m quite happy to finally use my new-to-me used portable computer to make music instead of just using it for the typical online life bullshit. After all, I once had a very nice mobile […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[48,46,49,53,52,50,47,51],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-log","tag-drum-machines","tag-linux","tag-netbook","tag-propellerhead","tag-rebirth-rb-338","tag-soft-synths","tag-software","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lukaszproductions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}