A bit more involved indeed. It's not like I didn't try. The goal was to get it as good or as close to the performance you get in Windows.

Again, if you're just using a mouse and keyboard to compose music, that's okay, but you'll put pressure on the Live engine buffer and most likely suffer dropouts - or buffer overruns - as soon as you add a little bit of processing. Juxtaposed to windows, that well runeth dry real quick.

Realtime MIDI and audio is even harder, because getting midi signals from several USB devices cleanly into wine is not as cut and dry as you'd think. There'd need to be some kind of pass thru on the kernel level to really get some of these MIDI devices working. Perhaps even pass thru of USB audio interfaces might be the ticket. But as is? NGL, kind of limited.. and useless for me :/

Sadness.

EDIT: I was using the TKG version of wine, but this seems slightly better... might have to give it a retry. Good thing I left 200GB empty at the end of my SSD :P