Consider supporting Linux for Synthesizer V Studio 2

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With some fiddling it’s working pretty well for me.
The Standalone that is, haven’t tried the DAW plugins.
The login wasn’t really an issue. Installing Voice Databases and using the Settings window was, since they rely on a edge web view.

Which didn’t show anything for me.

Here’s what I did:

Get the MS Edge Webview installer. Latest version worked fine for me.
Direct Link

How I set up the wine prefix:

# Create new wine prefix, or use an existing one.
# Your call, but preinstalled things might cause other issues
WINEPREFIX=~/synth_v wineboot

# dxvk is needed for rendering the main gui as direct2d is not working at all
WINEPREFIX=~/synth_v winetricks dxvk

# the wineprefix should already be on win10, just to be sure since the edge setup fails on older versions
WINEPREFIX=~/synth_v winetricks -q win10

# install the webview
WINEPREFIX=~/synth_v wine MicrosoftEdgeWebview2Setup.exe

# Install synth v
# If you change the path, remember it, we'll need it for the login later.
# No point in running synth V after setup, we need to fix some stuff first.
WINEPREFIX=~/synth_v wine svstudio2-pro-setup-2.1.0b1.exe

# After the setup there's some annoying background processes from the webview installation still running.
# This kills them so winetricks doesn't wait for them to terminate. Which they never will.
WINEPREFIX=~/synth_v wineserver -k

# setting the prefix to win 7 fixed the empty webview in synth v for me, not sure I want to know why.
WINEPREFIX=~/synth_v winetricks -q win7

To patch the login up, create a script named synth_v_login.sh containing this:

#!/bin/bash
WINEPREFIX=~/synth_v wine "C:\Program Files\Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro\synthv-studio.exe" "$1"

Doesn’t matter where, as long as you remember, and the permissions are correct:
chmod +x synth_v_login.sh
(Also make sure /bin/bash exists)
This simply forwards the uri to synth V with the proper wine prefix.

Finally run synth V

WINEPREFIX=~/synth_v wine "C:\Program Files\Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro\synthv-studio.exe"
When clicking login in synth v, the system default browser should open.
Firefox in my case. After clicking login in Firefox, it’ll ask how to handle the URL and prompts for an appliaction.
Simply point that to the script and the login should work.
If there’s no prompt, you’ll have to dig through the browser settings.

Webview might not render sometimes, resizing the window or clicking/scrolling around usually solved that.

Win 7 won’t do the trick?

If setting the wine prefix to windows 7 shows an empty webview, it might be worth trying to downgrade the webview.
Wasn’t necessary on arch.

Webview still empty?

Try right clicking in the empty window. If a win 2000 style context menu appears, it’s not the Edge Webview you’re seing.
It’s the wine-gecko replacement.
You can uninstall it with the control panel:
WINEPREFIX=~/synth_v wine control

Also make sure direct 2d isn’t used

~/synth_v/drive_c/users/USER NAME HERE/AppData/Roaming/Dreamtonics/Synthesizer V Studio 2/settings/settings.xml

<ApplicationSettings [...] >
  <General useDirect2D="0" [...] />
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