Hello, My name is Kevin Kelley and I have been working with Unix/Linux for quite some time at work (mainly VoIP and slackware). I joined this list hoping to get some idea of what linux distribution to use for my home studio. I mainly need midi for sequencing and I may do some audio recording and effects and if all goes well I may try some soft synths. I currently have a large collection of vintage synths that I plan to mainly use. The question is for a new Linux audio user what is the easiest Linux distribution to setup and use and what programs work best. Sorry I am sure everyone has their own opinions but in this situation that is what I am looking for. I mainly build every thing from source on slacking as well as rebuild the base kernel per machine for work.
Kevin Kelley
www.keyboardmuseum.org
Is it really too much to ask for a distro which is supposedly dedicated
to audio and video production work to keep up with the latest versions
of those types of programs and libraries?
Ubuntu Studio 64 v8.04 (Hardy) is still stuck at Ardour 2.3. I can't
even get the Rubber Band library to compile because I can't get vamp-sdk
to compile either, so now I can't compile Rui's Qtractor with the
options I want. You'd think they'd all be in the Ubuntu Studio
repositories, but they're nowhere to be found.
Is there a distro for audio out there with a nice real-time kernel that
can keep up with the updates so I don't have to keep doing it all manually?
Thanks!
-- Darren Landrum
Hello,
I'm trying to set up a simple Midi interface between a Linux box and a Midi keyboard. Will the M-Audio MIDIsport UNO work with Linux?
I bought it on sale for $19.99, and I'm hoping it will work with Rosegarden and other Midi programs under Linux.
Thanks,
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My Omega seems to have developed flacky output jacks, and maybe also
flacky input jacks. Has anyone seen this on theirs, since I seem to
recall a few people on here using them?
I'm torn between sending it to be repaired, trying to repair it myself,
versus just replacing it with a simpler device and dragging my mixing
board back out. I'm concerned that trying to send it out for repair
would end up costing more than I paid for it or even almost as much as a
brand new one would be.
Has anyone who owns one tried opening it up?
Hi all,
I would like to watch a video DVD with totem and
send the audio to a file instead of the sound
system (that is, capture the DVD audio as
it flows).
Could someone point me to the right direction?
I tried adding a
.asoundrc
file to my homedir, containing
pcm.fileout {
type file
slave.pcm "hw:0,0"
file alsaout.raw
}
but can't figure out how to actually activate
"fileout".
My installation is ubuntustudio (gutsy, i686) with
totem-xinelib.
I picked ALSA for "Music and Movies > SOund playback"
in System > Preferences > Audio (=gnome-sound-properties)
The soundcard selected in QAMix is "VIA8237 (hw:0)"
Thanks all in advance,
Johannes
When I use the kernels from Ubuntu 8.04, my MIDI latency becomes
horrible. I have an external keyboard that connects to the computer
and then proceeds to loop-back out to external synthesizers. By
horrible, I mean that there is quite clearly a delay from when I hit a
key on my keyboard to when sound comes out the synthesizer. If
someone knows a tool I could use to measure the latency, I'd be glad
too. Otherwise, I'd just guess it is somewhere around 100
milliseconds.
When I switch back to my prior kernel from Ubuntu 7.10, the latency
becomes great (but the X server and other things stop working, thanks
to the magic of Ubuntu). Here are the kernels I've tried out with
Ubuntu 8.10:
2.6.24-18-generic
Bad latency
2.6.24-18-rt
Bad latency
2.6.22-14-generic
(This is the kernel from Ubuntu 7.10)
Excellent latency
Has anyone else had this problem? Do you know if it is
kernel-related, library-related, or Ubuntu-related? It almost seems
kernel-related, but why?
-David
Hi,
I want to write drum score in lilypond, export it to midi and play that
with a sequencer.
Which programs are the best for this? Muse, Rosegarden, Qtractor?
Linuxsampler (gigedit) or specimen?
How does the mapping work? The sequencers do use standard midi
percussion maps...(?)
Here is one: http://www.midistudio.com/Help/GMSpecs_PercMap.htm
Key 35 is that key 35 on a 88 keys piano from left to right?
so key 35 is G3?
Thanks in advance,
Gene Heskett wrote:
> I have 2 audio systems
> in this box, and PA refuses to recognize the Audigy2 (emu10k1 driven) card I
> use for everything BUT skype. If I want sound at all, I have to excise as
> much of it as kde will allow in order that my sound work at all.
>
>
I don't have a pulse audio setup yet. I'm sure others on this list may
be able to offer some more insight.
I'm assuming that you are using alsa drivers and that you can see the
second card in /proc/asound/card1
What is the interface for PA saying when you try to access the second card?
It's probably a asoundrc issue but it may be a bug with PA that you have
found.
Cheers.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.
