Sound Manager with LINUX
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paolo60
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Sound Manager with LINUX
I read many post here and I would like to double check if my understanding is correct:
Sound Manager cannot be used under Linux Wine because the Nord USB driver cannot be installed. Right?
The only way to use Nord Sound Manager is under a Virtual Box Windows machine. Right?
Sound Manager cannot be used under Linux Wine because the Nord USB driver cannot be installed. Right?
The only way to use Nord Sound Manager is under a Virtual Box Windows machine. Right?
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Re: Sound Manager with LINUX
Right, or at least it is the easiest/safest, as discussed here some time ago viewtopic.php?p=154798&hilit=Sound+Mana ... ux#p154798
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Re: Sound Manager with LINUX
My understanding is that mainly the special USB drivers from Nord necessary for communication do not work under wine. My solution is to use quickemu to install Widows with least effort (only two commands necessary after installation of quickemu). Works well and you can easily pass-through the USB hardware into the virtual machine. For information see e.g.:
https://www.howtogeek.com/get-windows-o ... -quickemu/
https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
https://www.howtogeek.com/get-windows-o ... -quickemu/
https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
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paolo60
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Re: Sound Manager with LINUX
I installed QEMU in Mint and run WIN11 virtualized: installed NORD USB driver and Sound Manager. It works perfectly.
Re: Sound Manager with LINUX
Super interested in this - I want to get away from the MS ecosystem, currently creating a list of programs that I need to shift over. Any tutorials on this that you have on hand?paolo60 wrote: 02 May 2025, 16:43 I installed QEMU in Mint and run WIN11 virtualized: installed NORD USB driver and Sound Manager. It works perfectly.
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Re: Sound Manager with LINUX
For Mint you can take a look here Installing QEMU/KVM in Mint 22 (or Google for "QEMU install <your Linux distro>")submeg wrote: 22 Oct 2025, 12:53Super interested in this - I want to get away from the MS ecosystem, currently creating a list of programs that I need to shift over. Any tutorials on this that you have on hand?paolo60 wrote: 02 May 2025, 16:43 I installed QEMU in Mint and run WIN11 virtualized: installed NORD USB driver and Sound Manager. It works perfectly.