Installing iZotope RX 10 Pro Audio via Wine

it uses mucho cpu, but at least it runs?

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For cleaning up audio recordings, mainly mouth noises or breaths, I use iZotope RX right now, either elements or the main one as a standalone application. Occassionally as VST3 plugins in an editor like Davinci Resolve.

To finish moving all audio/video related work to linux, I wanted to run this as well, to not use a usb or spare ssd to transfer files back and forth to a windows machine. With this in place, I can now do any and all recording, editing, rendering, everything for a platform like youtube or using a DAW like lmms, on linux, no need for windows anymore.


    # Install wine (latest staging may work better?) and winetricks
    # Tested with wine 10.7
    doas apk add wine winetricks

    # Run something so that it generates a wine prefix by default (~/.wine folder)
    #   Then exit
    wine explorer

    # Add needed winetricks
    # - mfc42 for missing .dlls for ISSKINU.dll
    # - tahoma and arial for... fonts? but the application would not run until I added them
    # - sound=alsa fixed bad or garbled audio, by default it used pulseaudio I think.
    #   But the alsa backend makes it work fine and sound correct now.
    winetricks mfc42
    winetricks tahoma
    winetricks arial
    winetricks sound=alsa

    # Optional, can use dex to run .desktop files under ~/.wine/drive_c/users/user/Desktop
    #   with dex <path/to/.desktop/file>
    doas apk add dex
    

It should now run with e.g. wine explorer and double clicking the .lnk file on the desktop, or with e.g. dex .wine/drive_c/users/user/Desktop/RX\ Pro\ Audio\ Editor.desktop. Your cpu fans may be on constantly from medium-high use. Will have to research that further. But it should be working as normal, able to edit and export changed files, etc.