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

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 13:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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

PS: I forgot to mention that Ray Rashif sent me a link to an Arch i686
architecture version, ardour2-svn-8472-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz :
http://repo.obsoleteaudio.org/i686/