Hello, all,
I've signed up for an Introduction to Audio Production course at my
local community college. I mainly want to learn how to record audio in
the field, and edit it into something like radio news segments or
podcasts (for those too young to have heard of 'radio').
When I was playing around with this 5-10 years ago, the go-to software
was Audacity, which I used and liked a lot. However, I understand that
Audacity has gone through some upheavals.
I'm on a Ubuntu 22.04 desktop, and I experimented at one time with
PipeWire, but I can't remember what audio tools are on my system
currently.
Do I need a Digital Autio Workstation (DAW)? Which one, in the FOSS
world, would you recommend? What audio tools (jack? pipewire?) do I
also need?
I'm sure that the college will have professional tools, in a lab, for
us to use, but I'd like to see if I can duplicate all the assignments
using FOSS tools.
Thanks for any advice or guidance for me.
-Kevin
Hello,
I'm "suddenly" (after a couple months of disuse) unable to start jack
in real-time mode, making ardour unable to take advantage of it. I've
had more or less the same setup for more than 10 years, so I've really
forgotten if there is anything else than the below that I could
investigate.
Tue Jan 23 20:21:51 2024: Starting jack server...
Tue Jan 23 20:21:51 2024: JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
Tue Jan 23 20:21:51 2024: self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self
connect requests"
Tue Jan 23 20:21:51 2024: Acquired audio card Audio2
Tue Jan 23 20:21:51 2024: creating alsa driver ...
hw:MobilePre|hw:MobilePre|128|3|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
Tue Jan 23 20:21:51 2024: configuring for 48000Hz, period = 128 frames
(2.7 ms), buffer = 3 periods
Tue Jan 23 20:21:51 2024: ALSA: final selected sample format for
capture: 16bit little-endian
Tue Jan 23 20:21:51 2024: ALSA: use 3 periods for capture
Tue Jan 23 20:21:51 2024: ALSA: final selected sample format for
playback: 16bit little-endian
Tue Jan 23 20:21:51 2024: ALSA: use 3 periods for playback
Tue Jan 23 20:21:51 2024: ERROR: Cannot use real-time scheduling
(RR/10) (1: Operation not permitted)
Tue Jan 23 20:21:51 2024: ERROR: AcquireSelfRealTime error
# ls -l /dev/rtc0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 253, 0 Jan 10 20:00 /dev/rtc0
# grep audio /etc/security/limits.conf
@audio - rtprio 99
@audio - memlock unlimited
My user is a member of the audio group.
This is a pure ALSA system, so there is no pulseaudio that could be
the culprit. pipewire is installed, but have not been running at any
time, although there might be something there?
As far as I've figured, when it last worked I was on a 6.4.x kernel,
I've been through a 6.5.x and have now had this problem on a few
different 6.6.x kernels.
From what I can gather, I've not changed anything that I can see. All
help welcome.
Regards,
Arve
It seems that the jack_lsp tool, which lists jack ports/connections on
the command line, is only available as part of the jackd2 package on
Debian. Is this intentional?
For Debian oldstable it exists as part of the jackd1 package...
thanks for any help!
P
Hi list and happy 2024!
I am running Manjaro (an Arch-based distro). It seems now I have a
'pipewire' package installed, but also pulseaudio. I don't think I have
actively tried to install 'pipewire' but maybe it's a dependency for
'something'?
Anyways, my current audio set-up is still as it has been for quite a
while on my laptop:
- pulseaudio for 'eveyday'
- jack for audio stuff and software (with a still working script I start
only when needed to have a pulseaudio 'sink' - e.g. running jack and
wanting to play audio or video from the browser)
All of this works as expected and I am still rather unaware of the
pipewire intricacies and configurations.
One thing I have noticed is that now it seems that alsa midi ports are
exposed as jack midi ports as well. Meaning... if I start some
notoriously ALSA-MIDI-only applications such as Rosegarden, Pure Data or
Qtractor their midi Outputs are shown in QJackCtl in the MIDI (i.e. JACK
MIDI) section and are also visible in notoriously JACK-MIDI-only
applications like Ardour or Carla, albeit without their port names
(Carla puts everything in 'System' and calls the various ports
'midi_capture_1', 'midi_capture_2' etc. regardless of application,
Ardour puts everything under 'system' and then does distinguish
applications if set to 'show individual ports' but just lists # ports
without their names, QJackCtl lists the applications and then for each
lists ports as 'midi/playback1', 'midi/playback2' etc.)
The most interesting aspect is that besides the naming quirk these ports
seem to work meaning that connecting rosegarden to, say, an Ardour MIDI
track with a plugin will make noise. That is without going through
a2jmidid. a2midid actually works pretty well so I'm not sure what the
'real' advantage would be, but it's still something interesting IMHO.
Lorenzo
I'm glad to announce the release of XUiDesigner v1.0
A easy to use GUI based tool to generate/design LV2 Plugin Bundles with
GUI's for Linux and Windows.
 - Generate GUI Bundle for existing LV2 plugins to use system wide
 - Generate LV2 plugin Bundle with GUI from scratch
 - Generate LV2 plugin Bundle with GUI from plain C++ files
 - Generate LV2 plugin Bundle with GUI from faust (MIDI/AUDIO) dsp files
 - Rework GUI's of saved Bundles at any later state
 - Generate cross platform compatible Plugins with makefiles for
Linux/Windows
 - Support github workflow to build binaries for releases
## Supported widget types
 - Knob         -> could support horizontal framed png
 - HSlider      -> could support horizontal framed png
 - VSlider      -> could support horizontal framed png
 - Button       -> could support single png/horizontal framed png
 - Toggle Button -> could support horizontal framed png
 - ComboBox
 - Value Display
 - Label
 - VMeter
 - HMeter
 - Frame
 - TabBox
 - WaveView
 - File Chooser Button
 - Virtual MIDI Keyboard
## Workflow
Here is a short introduction
[Wiki](https://github.com/brummer10/XUiDesigner/wiki/XUiDesigner)
XUiDesigner is released under the free BSD Zero Clause License
project page is here:
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release page is here:
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direct download of the source tarball:
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greetings
hermann
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