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Launch Pro Tools First to confirm that it recognizes the ASIO4ALL virtual sound card.
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Click the Start menu and select Settings.Once it's booted, reboot the VM with driver signature enforcement disabled by following these steps.Start/Boot the Windows 10 VirtualBox VM.This is the snapshot you'll go back to every 90 days as the Windows 10 license only works for 90 days. Create a snapshot of your VM at this point, before your first boot but after tweaking the settings.Maybe increase the video memory as mine started out with a value that was too low and VirtualBox complained.Create a shared folder so that you can make the downloaded AC97 and ASIO4ALL drivers available to the Windows 10 guest.Enable Audio support and chose the "AC97" audio driver, which should be the default.If you don't set this high enough you'll hear crackling and skipping in your audio (though the crackling/skipping won't end up in the recording) This depends on how many CPU cores your host computer has. Change the number of CPUs dedicated to the VM from 1 to some greater number.Edit the settings of the newly created VirtualBox VM.Import the Microsoft Windows 10 ova appliance that you downloaded into VirtualBox, creating a VirtualBox VM.Download the ASIO4ALL driver which will create a virtual audio device in the Windows 10 guest which Pro Tools First will recognize.Download the Vista/Win7 (32/64 bits) Realtek AC'97 Driver that can be found on this page which you'll need to enable the VirtualBox virtual audio device in the Windows 10 guest.Download the Microsoft Windows 10 free virtual machine.In my case I did this under Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but since there is no Linux package specific steps this should work on any major distro (e.g. Here's how to run Pro Tools First under Linux using all free ( as in beer) software.

Pro Tools apparently doesn't work in Wine.

Pro Tools First and all of Avid's line of digital audio software is create exclusively for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OSX, not for Linux. It's limited in what it can do but for many applications is just fine. Pro Tools First is a version of Avid Pro Tools which can be used for free.
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How to run Pro Tools First under Linux for free gene_wood | August 23, 2016
