[LAU] A short story: from zero to recording the drums in a budget

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 09:54 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> It's A3 taking something like 330 MB just for an empty
> session. The only thing I'd want to do with this system
> is recording (which worked perfectly well for years using
> A2), no plugins or anything else.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
[snip]
warning: ardour: ignoring package upgrade (2.8.16-1 => 3.5.380-1)
[snip]

I planed to upgrade to Ardour3, but I build an Ardour2 package using
bacman, just in case I need to downgrade.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ bacman --help
This program recreates a package using pacman's db and system files
[snip]

Since Ardour2 isn't available by downgrade ...

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ sudo downgrade ardour
Available packages:

   1) ardour-3.5.380-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   2) ardour-3.5.357-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   3) ardour-3.5.308-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   4) ardour-3.5.308-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   5) ardour-3.5.143-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   6) ardour-3.5.74-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   7) ardour-3.5.14-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   8) ardour-3.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   9) ardour-3.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)

select a package by number: ^C

... I could send the Ardour2 package off-list assumed somebody should
need an Arch x86_64 architecture version of Ardour 2.8.16-1.

Regards,
Ralf