cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35272958
I am looking into getting a BOSS RC-5 looping pedal for my guitar, and I am curious if anyone has any experience with using it with Linux?
It makes use of this BOSS Tone Studio to allow adding additional backing tracks, but it is only officially supported for Windows and macOS. I could not find many examples of people using it on Linux, but for the most part any discussion I could find was in the context of their amplifiers.
I wonder if it should be straightforward to run it through Wine? As far as I can tell, you only need to set it up as a storage medium and connect it to your machine, although you can’t just drag the files directly onto it.
It is not a deal breaker for me if I can’t get it working, but it would certainly be a benefit if I could.
I feel strongly that I had done simple drag and drop before, but doing some searches it sure sounds like I must be imagining it. I never tried it with Linux. There’s a guitar pedals !guitarpedals@lemmy.world community that you might try cross-posting to.
I got a reply from someone who had got it working under Wine before, so I will go ahead and order it. I will check if the drag and drop-approach works then as well, which would be preferable for any custom tracks. I’ll update on what I find out when I get the pedal!
And thanks for the link to the community, I will definitely follow that one. I fear this can become a very expensive hobby, I have gone from 0 to 3 in a short time, and I find myself wanting ones that I currently don’t have the skills to make proper use of…
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