I'm using Mint 19.1 on a recent Dell 15" XPS laptop and my experience is
excellent for general use and good for pro audio.
I find to be Mint to be quite polished and supports this laptop very well.
What I particularly found impressive was:
I was able to install with Windows10 dual-boot effortlessly, no problem
with UEFI, secure boot, or GPT partition;
Out of the box support for using both Intel and Nvidia graphics card (nice
applet to switch between them)
Bluetooth works effortlessly (mouse, headset).
Laptop has touch-screen, which seems to be basically supported (can move
windows around, though I don't really use this feature).
All laptop buttons work (to control audio, screen, etc)
As far as audio goes I added kxstudio repositories so I have the full
audio suite. There is a low-latency kernel available, so I use that.
I have turned off hyperthreading which I believe helped x-runs. There
is a mint backup tool which I disabled immediately because it
gobbled a huge amount of CPU and disk space. I have run some checks with
realtimeconfigquickscan script, though I did not do all
recommendations, maybe I should complete that. Of course, when doing
audio I switch to performance mode on CPUs.
I have run Jack with both onboard audio and with a Komplete Audio 6
USB interface. Both worked with no problems. Currently the setup is quite
adequate for mixing at high-latency, very few x-runs. Low-latency work
still gets some x-runs, sometimes in bursts. Clearly there process waking
up or something which causes x-runs. Possibly things like networking.
Need to spend more time figuring this out.
What is impressive is that I am able to run Pianoteq at 48kHz, 64
frame/periods, 2 periods, 2.67ms using the USB midi connection on my
keyboard and the on-board audio with no x-runs. I also play
soft-synths using Ardour as a host, but this does not work well so
far, many x-runs.
So I'm hoping with a little more tweaking to get rid of the x-runs
entirely. Also I left a free partition so I may try some other distro.
AVLinux would have been my first choice, but unfortunately it
does not support GPT partitioning, so is essentially un-installable
(unless I revert to MBR)
Edward Diehl
> Actually you didn't contribute at all, you are just a Troll who didn't
> clarify anything. You replies are nothing but noise, irrelevant traffic.
Well, I'm a Troll, keep that in mind before you go on reading, special,
because all I want to give you here is a link, trollish, isn't it.
https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=44&p=102574#p102574
If you still read, okay, I'll give you a bit more than just a link. It's
about converting a circuit drawing to a LV2 plugin, a working solution.
regards
hermann
Folks!
This list is on emergency moderation until further notice.
Apart from that, I have removed Ralf Mardorf from the lists, as he
repeatedly did not care about escalating arbitrary topics (after several
times of telling him to stop) - aka. "trolling", insulting people and
spamming.
I hope this gives everyone some cool-off time.
Please try to remember, that there are over 700 people subscribed to
this list. Please don't enforce your personal issues onto others. Be
mindful and respectful in what you write. Do not take part in distro
wars (aka. "flaming"). Think before you write.
Last, but not least: Be constructive!
If you can't adhere to this (simple) social standard, this (and most
likely most other) mailing list is not for you.
Best,
David
--
https://sleepmap.de
I bought one of these last August, and it failed catastrophically within a
week, got a no-quibble replacement and tested all functions and it was fine. I
used it a couple of times for recording guitar and mic into the computer, but
since then only used it for playback from the computer.
Try to use it for recording again, it's silent. Direct out is fine, and
playback from the computer is. qjackctl shows the inputs, and appears to
connect them correctly, but no data is coming through.
The only change in that time was the distro on the computer being changed from
debian to devuan. However, I also tried it on my laptop (which is still on
debian) and got the same results there.
Has anyone else seen a similar problem, or got any suggestions as to what
may be wrong.
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
Is there any likelihood of this happening?
Last year it was in October and so close to SynthFestUK that I couldn't get the
time off work to do both - this year that won't be a problem - so long as they
are not in the same week!
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
Hi,
Suppose I've got recordings of two live performances of some piece. I'd
like to mix them but their tempo is slightly different and each one also
varies naturally. What is a good workflow for time-stretching one of
the recordings to match the tempo of the other? For example I could
create a series of tempo ramps in Ardour to align the metronome clicks,
but how do I proceed from there? Slicing up the other recording at each
bar and time-stretching the slices manually to match the tempo bars sort
of works, but it's rather cumbersome and misses the "ramp" part. I'd
rather create both "tempo maps" and have some tool do the appropriate
ramped time-stretching for the full piece in one step. Does anything
like that exist? Or can you recommend a more practical approach?
--
Thanks,
Feri
Hi all.
On Tuesday the 12th of February it's again the meeting at c-base. I'll
be in the mainhall from 20:00.
Maybe David can tell a bit about the pipewire talk at FOSDEM?
Cheers
/Daniel
