ENCORE v0.1.1

ENCORE v0.1.1 expands product support across the current installer and launcher stack.

Highlights:

• Supports Ableton Live 11 and 12.
• Supports Suite, Standard, Intro, Lite, and Trial. Ableton names the regular edition Standard.
• Detects and validates the exact matching installed Windows folder and executable.
• Generates edition-specific launch paths, Wine registry keys, desktop names, WM classes, and icons.
• Skips Live 12-only WebView2 setup for Live 11.
• Enforces the VC++ 2013 compatibility modules needed by Live 11 in the bundled Wine runtime.
• Fixes bundled runtime validation when ENCORE is installed in a path containing spaces.

Download ENCORE-v0.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.xz for the turnkey package. Supply the complete already-installed Ableton application folder copied from Windows, not the downloaded Ableton installer.

The patched Wine runtime is unchanged from v0.1.0 and remains pinned to SHA-256 b58f0acc6868b5160cb561d55ac04e4ee5feba3b4eae61388dc45692d5d05ccd. Verify all assets with SHA256SUMS.

ENCORE v0.1.0

ENCORE v0.1.0

The first turnkey binary release of ENCORE, an experimental loader for Ableton Live 12+ on Linux using WINE.

Quick install

1. Download ENCORE-v0.1.0-linux-x86_64.tar.xz below.
2. Extract it.
3. Open a terminal in the extracted folder.
4. Run ./install.sh and follow the guided setup.

The bundle contains ENCORE and its verified Wine runtime. You do not need to compile Wine.

Included compatibility work

• guided setup for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, and CachyOS
• HiDPI configuration and desktop application integration
• PipeWire through pipewire-pulse and native PulseAudio support
• Windows VST3 scanning, custom folders, and plug-in window fixes
• drag and drop inside Live and from compatible Linux file managers
• themed menus, Learn View support, and dynamic CPU topology
• resumable installs with clear logs and safe retries

Runtime details

• Wine 11.13 at the pinned ENCORE revision
• built on Ubuntu 22.04 with a glibc 2.35 compatibility baseline
• combined i386 and x86-64 Windows PE support in one x86-64 Linux runtime
• upstream NTSync support when /dev/ntsync is available
• automatic fallback to normal Wine server synchronization without NTSync
• no Proton or Wine-GE Fsync patch set
• smoke-tested on Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora, and Arch Linux

SHA256SUMS verifies every archive. The exact runtime and source archives were validated by GitHub Actions on Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora, and Arch Linux before release.

Build records:

• Wine runtime and source build from commit e0a1332
• Cross-distribution release validation from commit 681d252
• turnkey bundle and checksum pin from release commit 94423c3

ENCORE does not contain Ableton Live, plug-ins, user projects, or authorization data. Supply the complete Live 12 Suite application folder from an installed Windows copy, normally C:\ProgramData\Ableton\Live 12 Suite, or the same complete folder extracted another way from your licensed copy. The downloaded Ableton installer, a lone EXE, and the inner Program folder are not valid inputs.

ENCORE is experimental and is not affiliated with Ableton or Wine. Back up important Live Sets and prefixes, and please report bugs with your distribution, desktop session, GPU, reproduction steps, and the relevant ENCORE log.