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by Russell Hanaghan

Hey all, So I know a standard exists for Pro tools to save to a interchangeable format for import to Mixbus via a 3rd party software app. Forget the names. Point is, it would be awesome to be able to save basic sessions in Ardour and be able to import the track info, edits, etc, into say, Qtractor or Muse or whatever. What's out there per open source or proprietary solutions. Is this something that could be collaborated on in house so to speak? I use Mixbus for the most part. But for live recording on an older sony Vaio, it's just too much of a CPU pig! Qtractor is a 1st choice solution for me. After the session has been saved, it would be great to be able to import that session to Ardour / Mixbus. Lining up all track data manually is a pita! Thoughts? Work arounds? Other open source DAW's? Fanx! :) ~ Russell

11 years, 1 month

Wavedrum

by jonetsu＠teksavvy.com

I offcially declare that the makers of the Wavedrum had vision. Incredible fun. I route in mono through a static Radial direct box though. That's how I get reasonable sound level control. Used to have problems before that when routing it directly into the 10101LT card.

11 years, 1 month

Debian DAW experiences

by David Christensen

linux-audio-user: I've been running a Debian Wheezy DAW (i386, Xfce, realtime kernel, Audacity, Rosegarden, various synthesizers, etc.) for the past week or two. It sort of worked. But, it's clearly not ready for taking on stage for a performance. I checked for backports of more recent DAW titles, but none are available. So, today I rebuilt the machine using Debian Testing (Jessie). I started by downloading the 288 MB "netinst" ISO image. This was followed by 100's of MB of downloads to install the base system, graphical desktop (Xfce), laptop packages, SSH server, and print server. I fed my list of desired general-purpose, kernel, and DAW packages to Apt and it wanted to download another 1+ GB of files (!). I shook my head and lit it off. After several hours of hogging my 1.5 Mbps Internet connection, I noticed that Apt was downloading a 323 MB documentation package. Since when is documentation a *required* package? For that matter, when is 288 MB a "small" installation image? And, there are other issues with Debian (such as cdrkit/ isoinfo). So, it's time for me to look for another Linux distribution. Are there any recommendations for a Linux distribution that: 1. Works correctly. 2. Is efficient in both space and time. 3. Offers a kernel suitable for DAW use at install time. 4. Offers current DAW software binary packages. 5. Provides simple OOTB *user* and *administrator* experiences -- e.g. minimal technical wrenching around under the hood. TIA, David p.s. I read the recent thread on the same topic and researched some of the responses (archive server down at the moment). The apparent favorite, Arch Linux, fails criteria #5 (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pro_Audio). The runner-up, Ubuntu Studio, is 2+ GB and therefore fails criteria #2. The also-ran, Debian, fails #1, 2, and 3.

11 years, 1 month

Sound Devices - USBPRE 2 - Status ?

by OvO OvO

On 09/16/2014 03:17 PM, Paul Davis wrote: >>>On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Hans Wilmers <hanswil at notam02.no ><mailto:hanswil at notam02.no>> wrote: >>On 09/16/2014 09:55 AM, Hans Wilmers wrote: >>>The USBPre2 works fine with UAC2 on recent kernels. >>With Fedora 19, kernel 3.14.17, I get these samplerates: >32000/44100/48000/88200/96000/192000 >>>I have to moderate that a bit: >I can set up all sample rates as above, but the effective sample >rate as shown by qjackctl is max. 48000. >No error message is shown in case the effective sample rate is not >the chosen one. >>>JACK asks ALSA for the nearest sample rate available. It does not print >errors when they do not match. > >OK, I understand. >The max. samplerate we get through Alsa is 48000 then. > / Hans Hello. Can you try to record 30 second of anything higher than 48khz and check the file with Audacity or Mplayer ? - mplayer -identify file.wav - or whatever is your most loved application. By the way, the 48khz Max, are 16 bits or 24 bits ? You have the choise of this quantization between 16 or 24 bits ? The - almost - last word : What we can do from here...this card support UAC2 but refuse to announce itself correctly and Gnu/Linux/Alsa perfectly support UAC2 ..... Any solution ? Begging Sound Devices to update 10 lines of code in a new firmware ? Asking someone at Alsa-project to make a patch if possible ? Any clue anyone ? Best.

11 years, 2 months

OT: email clients

by Kazakore

Hi all. Sorry for the very much off-topic post but I have asked a couple of other places and from those tried some recommendations and decided I don't like them. On the whole you guys and gals seem to have similar sensibilities to me so hopefully can suggest a email client that I will agree with. Needs to run nicely in Threaded mode (including own, sent emails in the thread for normal, non-list conversations.) Evolution, Thunderbird and Alpine are the ones I've tried. Instantly didn't like Evolution, tried Thunderbird for about the last week (and currently typing this in it) with the Conversations plugin and it almost works but there is a lot which is clunky and not quite right. Alpine I barely got set up, only managed to get it to sync my Inbox folder, none of the others, and it all of a sudden stopped even being willing to do that. Considered trying kmail but it's a huge download for just an email client (I assume it takes most of the Kontact library/suite just not the other actual programs) and am currently on too poor a connection to feel it was worth trying on the off-chance (IE it wasn't actually recommended by anybody.) Thanks and sorry for the noise. Dale :)

11 years, 2 months

Looking for people in Heidelberg/Mannheim-Germany

by Gerald Mwangi

Hi, The subject says it all. I'm wondering if there are some musicians living in the rhein-neckar area in Germany, who would be interested in my Band www.jimson-drift.de (also check https://www.jamendo.com/de/list/a62900/groove-venture ). We play a mix of rock/soul and Funk and are in the process of integrating Electronica elements in our songs (not yet in the current demos). Our Drummer decided to leave the Band by the end of the year and our Bassist will probably go next year due to their jobs. I'm looking for people who want to break with the old styles by mixing them together to something new, experimental but still mainstreamy enough to get the audience moving with the groove. I'm looking for people who would drop everything else, if we had the chance to go to the top (charts, big stadium, fun) without being bent to conformity. Who's in? Lg Gerald

11 years, 2 months

Update to "Robust Session Management"

by Jonathan E. Brickman

A major rewrite; quite a lot faster and better now, was needed for an enormous patch in the works: http://lsn.ponderworthy.com/doku.php/robust_session_management Now using Python scripts for process management, a separate hand-off method for patch changes, and other improvements. -- Jonathan E. Brickman Ponderworthy Music | jeb(a)ponderworthy.com | (785)233-9977 | http://ponderworthy.com

11 years, 2 months

Ardour: Recorded regions in one track to individual tracks

by Carlos sanchiavedraz

Hello dear all. Some time ago, maybe years because I think it was Ardour2 at that time, somebody asked if anyone knew a non-manual-tidious way to have all the playlists of one track in Ardour converted to individual tracks. This was to be able to Solo/Mute each take to filter the best ones instead of constantly changing playlists. Well, I would like to refresh that question (for Ardour2 and Ardour3 now) and ask more or less the same again but for individual segments in a track that were recorded on a tracking session. The reason why this segments are all in the same track is that they were recorded by the same person who was playing and at that moment it was quicker to do like that instead of having to deal with playlists in every recording track or several new tracks one for each take and source recorded. I guess there are many DIY musicians that have experienced this and maybe come to a solution, or maybe there's some functionality in Ardour I'm not aware of. Thanks in advance as always. Regards. -- C. sanchiavedraZ: * NEW / NUEVO: www.sanchiavedraZ.com * Musix GNU+Linux: www.musix.es

11 years, 2 months

Sound Devices - USBPRE 2 - Status ?

by OvO OvO

Hello everyone. Looking for a external sound card with good preamp to record. Found the Sound Devices USBPRE 2 suits my need. Browsing the web, the Sound Devices web site and this list, it seems to be supported for UAC1 with no trouble but only with 48khz. The message is now old : http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lau/2013/1/25/196179 Anyone can give some update about the UAC2 status with Alsa on this card ? Please. ps: running a Gnu/Debian Stable. Best.

11 years, 2 months

ALSA resampling

by Ken Restivo

Being lazy here, so quick question: I'm looking for a simple way to resample in ALSA from a capture/play interface that supports only 48kHz, to 44.1kHz which is desired. Both playback and capture resampling is needed, and it seems I neeed dsnoop and dmix. However, I am bewildered by the somewhat byzantine configuration of .asoundrc. There's one card on this machine, a "SB LIVE!" (which means "48kHz only!"), running the emu10k driver. There's no JACK up in this at all, it's just an old streaming PC running BUTT. There is also no PulseAudio because I avoid PulseAudio. If I were using ices2 I suppose I could use its built-in resampling, but that's not an option in this case. -ken

11 years, 2 months

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