Jim Michmerhuizen

That's helpful. So I need a USB MIDI driver on my Win10 VM, and on the linux host something to properly interpret the incoming USB stream. Something capable of handling that as MIDI, and connecting it to Vital. I had hoped, in fact, to run Vital as a VST directly on the VM. But when I attempted this, it told me loudly that it needed a more recent release of libGL than it found in Win10. And that's where things are now stuck. Ah, you mentioned latency. Sure, even now I'm getting little breakup noises from the VST's I'm currently using. But like you, I'm not doing any serious audio production, and by the time I get to that stage of my project I will have a Win10 machine dedicated to the purpose. For the time being, I'm stuck with Audio on linux and Cakewalk on Win10. Thanks for your experience.

Yeah, I know that's an option. I'd hoped to defer that step -- actually just getting another machine to do the Win10/CbB work -- while I re-establish myself with Cakewalk. (I started with Cw around 1992 when it was Twelve-Tone Systems, and then went quiescent just after they released SONAR3. So the first step is getting my fluency back -- I've done nothing in synthesis or midi sequencing since roughly 2005.) So anyway, the question remains. Thanks for your interest. And what if my required softsynth only ran on linux? How would I connect my Win10/CbB sequencing to my linux/synth? Are there any real obstacles to that?

My Cakewalk is installed on a Win10 virtual machine which in turn is running on a linux host. I want to control a softsynth on the host from Cakewalk on the Win10 guest. Anybody got any ideas? I've had trouble finding any info online. It seems to me it should be fairly easy: let Cakewalk think it's controlling the synth through a regular midi cable. It's obviously not VST protocols. Any advice, or links, be appreciated.