I'm looking forward to a native Linux version of Reaper. Since I rarely boot up a Windows machine, I took an interest in using Reaper in Linux Wine.
I was astonished when it worked in stock Kubuntu 12.10 and installed it in Ubuntu Studio 12.10 to see how usable it could be. The key is to use ASIO for Wine and I found this link,
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.p...light=wineasio
I found the latest version of LinReaper some months ago. Don't make the mistake of installing Reaper directly into Wine. LinReaper sets up a special Wine environment and installs ASIO for Wine. There is no way I could do this for myself. If you want to install other programs alongside Reaper, you might try it by running Reaper to set up Wine for the purposes of the installation. Otherwise, Reaper is not available at the same time as other programs installed in Wine. You will have to use the Reaper launcher as a template for launchers for other programs in the environment.
I have been involved in helping someone else master Cubase in Windows and have not got too adventurous with Reaper, so far, but I am now getting stuck in.
LinReaper works well with jack. I have recorded using a Focusright Saffire Firewire 8x8 interface and also with an E-MU Xboard49 keyboard controller. I use both an Edirol SD-20 MIDI module and have produced reabanks for this. There are existing banks for the Roland JV1080 that I also use. I have also produced reabanks for the Roland MC-80 for my pal, but he has not migrated from Cubase... yet.
When I have given the reabanks more use, I will upload them to the resources site.
I am using my little browsing computer (an Acer Revo with an Atom processor) as a learning tool and this means no Firewire and the need for an external USB audio Line In interface. Jack reports the latency as 11.6 ms using the internal sound chip (not for direct comparison for any figures given by Windows ASIO, but it is very good for a toy computer).
I have done quite a lot of MIDI editing and Reaper is very responsive. The only downside is that Reaper takes quite a long time to load because of the need to also load Wine. Even with an Atom processor, it is faster to cold boot into a working Reaper session than on Windows 7 on a quad-core AMD system.
My Acer shows its low power with video streaming and image manipulation. If I manage to load Reaper sufficiently to make its performance dip, I will let you know. I can see no reason why you wouldn't want to use Reaper in Linux with LinReaper.