Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Files still open in audacious in 14.04
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Set Hallström sakrec...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I recently upgraded from 13.10 -14.04 and all is fine and happy. But i noticed that, in any application allowing it, when i right click a file to show it in its folder, it still opens audacious instead of the filemanager. I am also having this problem and would be interested in a fix. -- -Brian David -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Ubiquity hang up 14.04 daily and Beta
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me wrote: Has anyone else tried 14.04 with firewire devices? I am currently running a live session of UbuStu 14.04. I have a PreSonus Firepod firewire interface, and it started up right away. Everything seems to be working perfectly so far. -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Ubiquity hang up 14.04 daily and Beta
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Israel isr...@torios.org wrote: On 04/27/2014 01:50 PM, Brian David wrote: That is great!! Your device is very close to mine. I am wondering if I am doing something slightly wrong here... It is pretty simple to set up the device, so I am not entirely sure what I could be missing... So, just for my own sake, could you please tell me the exact steps you followed to begin using it? i.e. start qjackctl. select firewire. open recording program. record music. Are you using 32bit or 64bit? Are also using a non-EFI machine? I did pretty much what you described: start qjackctl, select firewire, and away it goes. I have not done any recording, though, just playback. I am running 64bit on a computer I made (Gigabyte motherboard running an AMD Phenom II processor), so it is non-EFI. It's worth noting that, in my experience, the interfaces that PreSonus made following the Firepod don't seem to be as compatible with JACK. I once tried to get an FP10 (which I thought was pretty much the same as a FirePod) to start up, and could not. -- -Brian David -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
[ubuntu-studio-users] Indicator applet volume
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this already, but in my fresh install of 13.10, the volume control in the indicator applet does not work at all. I have to open up Audio Production Mixers and Card Control PulseAudio Volume Control to do anything. Not awful, but somewhat inconvenient. Is there a way to fix this? -- -Brian David -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: what is the cli shell command to insta; ll ati propriety drivers please.
sudo apt-get install fglrx I think this is what you want. On Apr 1, 2013 4:58 PM, Alex Armani alex.arm...@rocketmail.com wrote: I will do a lecture on Ubuntu for you if you like aka Linux for Mums. Live next door to the valley. . real time kernel for zero latency audio video gnome 3.6 Ubuntu Studio 64 bit 12.1o aka ZULUBUNTU 4:2o \When is the next lug? need somebody to install the ati drivers for me on me laptop/. what is the cli shell command to insta;ll ati propriety drivers please. -- Alex Armani - IT Consultant / Digital Musician +447972641526 - MYspace.com/Alex.Armani www.facebook.com/Alex.Armani.01.UK -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Firewire Issues Solved
I was happy today to see that the -lowlatency kernel had been updated for 12.04 LTS. However, after the kernel was installed, I discovered that JACK no longer connected to my firewire interface. In the end, I was forced to use an old-school solution: add myself to the 'disk' and 'video' groups, as well as the 'audio' group (of which I was already a part). So if any of you find you now have trouble with firewire,this may help you out. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Firewire Issues Solved
I should clarify: I had already been a member the 'audio' group, and my firewire had been working until today's update, after which it was broken. Then I had to add myself to the other groups to get it working again. I couldn't tell you why it was necessary, but in this case it worked. On Nov 15, 2012 11:57 PM, Brian David beej...@gmail.com wrote: I was happy today to see that the -lowlatency kernel had been updated for 12.04 LTS. However, after the kernel was installed, I discovered that JACK no longer connected to my firewire interface. In the end, I was forced to use an old-school solution: add myself to the 'disk' and 'video' groups, as well as the 'audio' group (of which I was already a part). So if any of you find you now have trouble with firewire,this may help you out. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Spotify
I do have a pulse bridge running, but when I start Spotify, it shows up by its own name as a JACK client. Unless the pulse bridge is what allows this, in which case it works differently than I thought. On Jun 4, 2012 5:58 AM, Thijs van severen thijsvanseve...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/6/4 Brian David beej...@gmail.com In case any you are curious, I just discovered right now that Spotify is fully compatible with JACK. Pretty nifty. -- -Brian David euhh ... how is that ? i just started up jack, than spotify, but no spotify in the connect window i'm guessing you have some sort of pulseaudiojack bridge app running? if that's the case then every app is 'fully compatible with jack' grtz Thijs -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users -- follow me on my Audio Linux blog http://audio-and-linux.blogspot.com/! -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Spotify
In case any you are curious, I just discovered right now that Spotify is fully compatible with JACK. Pretty nifty. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Re: State of Jack as a full pulsaudio replacement
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Len Ovens l...@ovenwerks.net wrote: Rebooted with netmanager turned off. Problem is gone. I've had this same problem with netmanager in the past. It's one of the reasons why Ubuntu Studio use to come without netmanager. Back then, however, there was an alternative GUI to set up networks, which I don't think is the case now. Any install without netmanager will probably have to set-up networks via the command line, which is not exactly convenient. :) -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Configuration Files
I installed the Ubuntu Studio audio meta-packages on top of a vanilla install of Linux Mint, which works totally fine (this will be my current set-up while I wait for the new UbuStu to mature some more), and I noticed the audio configuration files are different. In /etc/security/limits.d/, 'audio.conf' is now called 'audio.conf.disabled', and there is a new file called 'ubuntustudio-audio-rtprio.conf'. What exactly is going on here? Is this second file now the main configuration file? And if so, shouldn't it contain a memlock line, in addition to the real-time priority line? Just wondering. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Gamma settings
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Brian David beej...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, and happy New Year! I'm wondering if any of you can help me with a problem. I'm having a difficult time getting my gamma settings to stick. I'm using the ATI Catalyst Control Center to set the gamma level to .63. However, the gamma reverts to 1.0 on each new session. The frustrating part is that, if I check the gamma levels (by running 'xgamma' in the terminal, for instance, or just re-opening Catalyst), the output tells me that the gamma is .63. The display is clearly not using this gamma setting, though, and to get it to use the levels I want, I need to re-adjust the settings (in either Catalyst or using xgamma), at which point it works. I have a feeling this has something to do with my display color profiles, but I'm what I'd need to change to fix this. For anyone who might be interested, I found a solution to my problem. I added this line to ~/.profile: (sleep 5; xgamma -gamma .7) Whatever it is that is resetting the gamma is getting executed after ~/.profile is run, so this is why the sleep command is used. Works on my machine, and now I don't have to reset gamma every time I log in. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Gamma settings
Hello everyone, and happy New Year! I'm wondering if any of you can help me with a problem. I'm having a difficult time getting my gamma settings to stick. I'm using the ATI Catalyst Control Center to set the gamma level to .63. However, the gamma reverts to 1.0 on each new session. The frustrating part is that, if I check the gamma levels (by running 'xgamma' in the terminal, for instance, or just re-opening Catalyst), the output tells me that the gamma is .63. The display is clearly not using this gamma setting, though, and to get it to use the levels I want, I need to re-adjust the settings (in either Catalyst or using xgamma), at which point it works. I have a feeling this has something to do with my display color profiles, but I'm what I'd need to change to fix this. This behavior is really obnoxious, and I'm wondering if any of you know how to get this to stop. I'm using vanilla Ubuntu 11.10, with the Unity 2d desktop. Thanks for any help! -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Install Studio or desktop Ubuntu and/or the Server addition.
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Hopkins Stanley heide...@comcast.net wrote: Hi all. I’m a real newbie to Ubunto and trying to figure out how to install it. I think I’m primarily interested in the Studio version but also curious about desktop and server versions and I’m not sure if I can install them all together or if that’s even possible? My experience has been that if you have a computer that is going to be used just for audio/visual work, then just install Ubuntu Studio straight from the disk. However, if this computer will also be used for office work, games and other stuff, it is often better to install the desktop version and then start adding individual packages, or Ubuntu Studio metapackages (although I had trouble using the audio metapackage in Oneiric). The main difference if you go this route is that you will need to remember to add yourself to the Audio user group, something which I think the Ubuntu Studio install will do automatically. My computer is used by a few people for many things, so I use plain Xubuntu with the audio/graphics packages installed. Personally, I find Unity to be unusable in its current state, so I would not recommend installing the standard Ubuntu desktop for any kind of serious work. All in all, though, there's really not a huge difference between either choice. In the past there was a lot more things to be done with real-time kernels, firewire permissions, irq threads, audio groups and so on that UbuStu often took care of on install. But a lot of that stuff is not necessary anymore. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Low-latency and 64-bit
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 8:03 AM, laurent.bellegarde laurent.bellega...@free.fr wrote: Hi brian, i'm using Alessio RT kernel under 32 bits computer and 64 bits, it's stable and ready out of the box for production. Laurent Just to report back, I used Alessio's kernel with my 64-bit machine to work on mixes from a live recording, and it worked wonderfully! Spent many hours mixing using tons of plug-ins on a lot of tracks, and did not have a single x-run. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Spectrum3d : software that displays the harmonics of the sound in 3D
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Victor henri nada...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello I'd like to introduce Spectrum3d, a new software that displays harmonics of the sound in 3D, with openGL. Just installed your software today, Victor, and it is wonderful! In fact, so wonderful that I already have a feature request. Would it be possible to add an option to eliminate the Z-axis entirely, and just have a 2-dimensional front view? If I'm using software such as this to, say, test frequency response while mastering, I find I really don't have a lot of need for the Z-axis. On a final note, your INSTALL document is fantastically written. If only all programmers took the time to write instructions this detailed. Thanks for you work! -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Natty and the Real Time Kernel
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Victor henri nada...@hotmail.com wrote: My personal experience is, since 2.6.33, many improvements have been done in the low latency kernel; I, as several other people, have reported excellent performances of the 2.6.37 and 2.6.38 low latency kernel, that seemed to get much closer closer to the rt performance then before. That allows me, most of the time to not use anymore the RT kernel and all its related problems... I just installed Natty for the first time tonight. This time around, I went with Xubuntu and installed the Ubuntu Studio packages on top of that. As Scott mentioned, I needed to add myself to the audio group, but after this my equipment immediately worked. Unlike previous versions, there was no need to change any configuration files to get access to my firewire device, which means that Ubuntu Studio is basically working out of the box for me now (or, it would be if I had installed from an Ubuntu Studio disc). Yay! For a test run, I did some mixing on a recording I'm working on right now. I started out using the generic kernel, and performance was surprisingly solid. There were a few x-runs when starting up or switching between applications, but otherwise it was usable. I then installed Allessio's low latency kernel, and proceeded to mix for an hour and half without a single x-run, even when starting up applications and switching between them. Rock on! So, I can say definitively that the low latency kernel gives me better performance over generic. This test was run at 44.1 khz / 512 frames / 3 periods - getting about 34.9 msec latency. The next time I get the chance, I'll set up some mics and do a recording test at lower latencies (I'll push it to 128 frames, which will take it down to 8.71 msec latency. This is something I have been able to do previously using rt kernels) and see how it performs. So far so good. Thanks for the work, everyone! -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Enable Desktop Compositing in Ubuntu Studio 11.04
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Erik Rasmussen mailfore...@gmail.comwrote: I just installed Ubuntu Studio 11.04 amd64 and then I installed Docky. Docky warned that Compositing was not enabled. I could not seem to figure out how to get Desktop Compositing to turn on. Tried installing*CompizConfig Settings Manager *, but inside there it said Compositing was already enabled. Not sure if this is true in Natty, as I have yet to try it, but can't you enable compositing by selecting anything but None under Visual Effects in the Appearance menu? -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: US website theme RFC request for screenshots
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Jorge G. Mare jorge.g.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Eric, Although at this point in time I do not know with certainty which modules I will be using, I do expect to end up using multiple modules in addition to Drupal core, so this requirement may become a real challenge. Cheers, Jorge It might not be too bad. I would assume (though obviously I can't say for certain) that Canonical has already approved the most commonly used modules i.e. CCK, Views, and so on. It might only be a severe issue if you are using something out of the ordinary. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Presonus Firepod FP10
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:58 AM, mentoj dija mentoj_d...@gmx.de wrote: yea i do. works with ardour 2. ardour 3? what the frog? did i missed smth? Yeah, Ardour 3 has been in alpha testing for a few weeks. Exciting! I've yet to try it, but I'm going to soon. I also have a Firepod, and it works very well with Ubuntu Studio. I've even done daisy-chaining with two Firepods, and it worked perfectly. A reasonably priced way to get 16 inputs with pre-amps. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Kokito and Ubuntu Studio Website Update
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Jorge G. Mare jorge.g.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Jorge, glad to see you're interested in helping! First, I'm sorry I haven't had any website updates for the last few weeks. Real life has swamped me, and I haven't had much time to do any work. I'm hoping to get some time in over the next few days. Jorge, right now the very basic aspects of the theme are in place (you can see it in action here: http://mousike.dyndns.org/ubuntustudio/). I would say that what we need to do next is get the back end and initial content of the site organized, and then we will know precisely what CSS remains to be done. I'll send out a more detailed e-mail about how I think this stuff should be implemented in Drupal (i.e. what modules to use and with what settings, content types, user roles, etc) the next time I get the chance. If you have ideas on these things as well, definitely let us know! -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Website Testing Files
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:03 AM, ailo ailo...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/08/2011 10:00 AM, ailo wrote: On 03/08/2011 08:27 AM, ailo wrote: I set up this on my own server. Feel free to check it out at (bad bandwidth, just so you know): http://mousike.dyndns.org/ubuntustudio/ Thank for doing this, Ailo, it makes testing a lot easier. Also, I appreciate the feedback. On one of my monitors i get maximum 1024x768 resolution. Using firefox, not all of the banner fits in my window, while there's quite a lot of room left on the width. I think the width should be expanded while the main stuff should be shrunk vertically. It is also the case on my monitor that you need to scroll down to see the Screenshots. I thought this might be worrisome, but at the time I was just trying to set it up so it looks like the picture on the revamp page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/TaskWebRevamp). I can try some re-arranging, of course. I personally like the Ubuntu Studio logo being separate from the banner on the splash page. I'll try to come up with something in between the way it is now and the layout you suggested. Something that will hopefully get the screenshots on the page without any need to scroll. As for the width, since it is a fixed width style, then I felt the 750 px was a good compromise for those people who still use small monitors (lots of people are still running 800 x 600, and some are even still at 640 x 480!) I'll try some new colors on the buttons, and maybe get some script in there to light them up when people mouse over. By the way, would it be possible to set up some of the other test pages, so that we can see what the content pages look like? Right now, none of the links work. Thanks! -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Website Testing Files
As mentioned at the meeting today, here are the files for the Impact theme, for those who wish to test it out. You will need be running some kind of server with a Drupal 6 (not 7!) install (I use XAMPP). http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/impact_2011-02-26.tar.gz Please read the README.txt Enjoy, and let me know what you think. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: monthly meetings
2011/3/4 Raony Guimaraes Corrêa Do Carmo Lisboa Cardenas raonyguimar...@gmail.com: Hello all, My name is Raony Guimarães, I'm a student of Biomedical informatics from Brazil and also a musician using Ubuntu Studio 10.10 and having a lot of fun with me free time. I would like to participate on this meeting, it's ok ? I have knowledge and experience developing in the following languages (C, C++, Python and Java) and I would like to help the project somehow. Nowadays, I have been working more with webdevelopment so I use a lot from the art stuff of Ubuntu Studio (Gimp, Inkscape, etc) on my websites. I'm also a researcher at the University doing some Genome Analysis working with Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine. Life happens to be fun ! :) This semester I have only one course to finish my graduation so I will have a lot of free time to learn and dedicated in other projects like Ubuntu Studio. I would need someone to help me with key factors that I need to learn in order to help the community more in the future to grow and expand. Thank you for your attention. Glad to see you are interested! I can't imagine any reason why you would not be able to attend, so you should! -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: monthly meetings
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com wrote: regular monthly meetings the first sunday of the month starting this sunday, march 6th... the time is 10am eastern standard time... PLEASE LET ME KNOW if you have trouble finding out what time this is in your local time zone... eastern standard time is US/new york.. for example: 10:00:00 a.m. Sunday March 6, 2011 in America/New_York converts to 03:00:00 p.m. Sunday March 6, 2011 in GMT http://www.timezoneconverter.com/ might be helpful... ...also, if there needs to be a special meeting set up for a specific purpose, such as meeting with the website team, and this time is bad for key members, additional meetings can and should be added anytime for this purpose... thanks Hey, Sundays work for me. It's a bit early to get up on a day off, but it's a good cause. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: mixbus
2011/2/11 psycho psychon...@gmail.com: Mixbus pour linux est enfin la Mixbus is out -- It's about time! -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Website
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Eric Hedekar aftertheb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Brian David beej...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Brian, You and I need to have a brief chat (maybe we should CC Scott L in the process) about the current state of the Impact theme. Is it ready to be implemented into a full Drupal theme? Do you have any experience creating a Drupal theme? As the artistic designer of the Impact theme are there any final touches that you think need to be made to it? etc... I have put myself forward as the guy who will work on a major portion of the back end for this overhaul, but I have extremely limited time and have been letting this slide too far. I don't want to let it slide much further. Though natty has no bearing on our site's progress (it'll be ready when it's ready). Soon source files of images, fonts, colours, etc... all need to be hammered down to exact specs. -Eric Yes, I am experienced with creating themes with Drupal. I would say that the Impact theme needs a bit of touching up, but it's pretty close to complete. What I really would like to know is exactly how this gets done. Who has access to the Ubuntu Studio website? How do we upload files? Should I just create the Drupal theme and then pass the files along to Scott? That would be easy enough, but after that, who is it that would maintain the site and add content? Would content be created on the Ubuntu Studio site itself, or would documentation be done using the regular Ubuntu Wiki? All of this is a mystery. What is the actual process? -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Website
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Brian David beej...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I am experienced with creating themes with Drupal. I would say that the Impact theme needs a bit of touching up, but it's pretty close to complete. What I really would like to know is exactly how this gets done. Well, I'll go ahead and start building the Drupal theme to get things started. It'll take a little while to get that done. In the meantime, Eric, let me know what things you would like to discuss in detail about the theme. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Website
Natty is not too far off, and it's been a while since there was any updates on what is going on with the website. I believe there was a meeting over a month ago about this subject, but no minutes were sent out. So, I was wondering if we could get an update on the current state of the website re-design? -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Fernando's comment on Ubuntu Distro's where the Tascam US-122 worked out of the box
On a total tangent - can any of you comment (in lay terms if possible) on the real-time kernel? I was under the impression that Ubuntu Studio utilizes a real time kernel, making it superior to other OS's, distros or flavors of Ubuntu. I thought I had read somewhere that this RTK has been abandoned and will not be available anymore? Comments? Casey Here's the situation on real-time kernels. For Lucid: There is a real-time kernel in the official Ubuntu repositiories, the package is called linux-rt. It is not installed automatically by Ubuntu Studio, because it is based off an older version of the vanilla Ubuntu kernel. It still works well, though. A lot of people on this list (perhaps most, and including myself) use the kernels in Alessio Bogani's PPA, information for which can be found here: https://launchpad.net/~abogani/+archive/ppa For Maverick: There are no official real-time kernels available for Maverick. Some people seem to have successfully used Bogani's Natty kernels with Maverick, so that is perhaps an option. There are other PPAs available, as well, and you could build your own kernel, too. For Natty: At this point, the kernels available in Bogani's PPA are the wants you will want to use for Natty. There will no longer be any real-time kernels in any official repositories, for various reasons, including lack of enough support to maintain one. It is a goal to have one of the low latency kerenls that Bogani has developed be put into an official repo for Natty, but I have not recently heard about how that is going. There are other issues with real-time in Maverick and Natty that have recently come to light. This page will fill you in: http://jackaudio.org/linux_group_sched I'm not positive about this, but I think Bogani's kernels have been updated to solve this problem. By the way, I'm glad to hear you've got your interface working. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Alessio's PPA Natty - 2.6.37-11.25~ppa1 - OK
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Fernando Gomes f.m.go...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for this newbie question, the Alessio PPA kernel should be tested on Natty Alpha 1? So to test it I should install Natty Alpha 1 and then install Alessio PPA low-latency kernel? I am willing to test it, just to be sure that this is the way to do it ;-) Best regards Fernando Yes, this is the preferred way to do it since this helps Alessio in testing the kernels for the release of Natty. However, I believe that is also possible to use the Natty kernels on other releases, should you wish to do so. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: [LAU] RT_GROUP_SCHED kernel option makes JACK unusable in Ubuntu Natty
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:07 AM, torbenh torb...@gmx.de wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:46:55PM -0500, Ronan Jouchet wrote: On 10-12-14 11:39 PM, Daniel Chen wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Ronan Jouchetro...@jouchet.fr wrote: d in place. i always thought ubuntu was about making things easy for the user. regarding jack, ubuntu has quite a big track record of making things hard for the users. Ronan Ubuntu often does make things easier for the average user. Unfortunately, the 'average user' is not an audio enthusiast. I get the impression that the use of Ubuntu as a DAW is so far off Canonical's radar that it never occurred to them that this might be a problem. It's yet another reason (possibly even the most important reason) why Ubuntu Studio should continue to be developed. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Parametric Equalizer
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Gabbe Nord gabbe.n...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Linuxdsp (www.linuxdsp.co.uk) has a good graphical EQ, and costs £10. I love the LinuxDSP plug-ins. They are, in my opinion, the best sounding plug-ins currently available for Linux. Most of them do cost a relatively small amount of money, and they are not open source, which is a turn off for some people. I think it's worth it. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: How to upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 to Ubuntu Studio 10.10?
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Stefano Vettorazzi Campos stefan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi people. I want to upgrade to Ubuntu Studio, but I don't know how to do it. I'm not sure of use the wiki document Ubuntu Studio Upgrade from Ubuntu, because it show a warning about that is in construction. Thank you. -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users The main Ubuntu Studio packages you will want to install are: ubuntustudio-audio ubuntustudio-audio-plugins ubuntustudio-video ubuntustudio-graphics That is really all there is to it. As Mike says, you can use Synaptic Package Manager (found under the Administration menu) to do this. Or, you can open up a Terminal and type: sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-audio ubuntustudio-audio-plugins ubuntustudio-video ubuntustudio-graphics The rest of the ubuntustudio packages are optional, and mostly relate to desktop theming. Once upon a time it was a bad idea to try to install the Studio theme on a vanilla Ubuntu install, but I think that is no longer the case. If you want specialized kernels (and you probably do if you plan to work with audio), at this point you will need to add Alessio's PPA to your software archives. You can find out more about that here: https://launchpad.net/~abogani/+archive/ppa -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: irc meeting
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Benjamin Turner passionsplaydes...@gmail.com wrote: Brian - I like the site, both your personal portfolio and the Sun Machine Co-Op! Looks like you've got a good place to plug UbuntuStudio! :) - Ben I have been planning to start writing more about Ubuntu Studio on that website. I'll probably have the time to do that after the new year. NEXT MEETING at UTC Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 01:00:00 in the irc channel #ubuntustudio-devel on freenode. i used http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html to convert the time to UTC... for example... * * *Location Local time Time zone New York (U.S.A. - New York) Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 8:00:00 PM UTC-5 hours EST* *UTC Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 01:00:00* * Unfortunately, I will once again not be able to attend this meeting, because I am going to be working. The holidays are making the work schedule very tricky to adjust. I'll definitely read up on the meeting notes, and do what I can to participate. In case there is enough people interested in rescheduling the meeting, next week I would be available the day before or after the currently scheduled date (UTC Tuesday, December 21, or Thursday, December 23 @ 1:00:00) -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Jack/Natty crashes on Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted error
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Ronan Jouchet ro...@jouchet.fr wrote: On 10-12-12 08:41 PM, Brian David wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Ronan Jouchetro...@jouchet.fr wrote: Hi, I can't run Jack under Natty, it refuses to start and raises a Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted error. Full log at http://pastebin.com/B45WFr0F. Help welcome... maybe I just forgot something stupid, maybe this is a real issue. More info: Realtime setup done at installed time Realtime setup confirmed via the Ubustu Controls app (user in audio group, memlock, rtprio) Kernels tested: generic, lowlatency Tested under normal user account and with sudo Gear: Edirol FA-66 through a TI PCMCIA card that used to work flawlessly under Lucid and Maverick. Natty 20101212 x86 Thanks for your help, -- Ronan One issue I see right away is that you should not be using Ubuntu Studio Controls to adjust the realtime settings. Unless things have changed (perhaps they have), Ubuntu Studio Controls edits /etc/security/limits.conf, which is the wrong file. The file you will want to edit is /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf. Because you've used Ubuntu Studio Controls, there's a chance that you have settings in both limits.conf and audio.conf, and this can definitely cause issues. Make sure only one of those files has the realtime settings. Hope that helps! Hi Brian, Indeed, both files exist and have different settings, I'm having a look at this. Also, adi from #ffado mentioned several points nedding investigation, I'll test them tomorrow and report here. Thanks for the hint! Ronan Jouchet Just to clarify, you will want to remove only the realtime settings in limits.conf, and not the entire file. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Jack/Natty crashes on Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted error
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Ronan Jouchet ro...@jouchet.fr wrote: Hi, I can't run Jack under Natty, it refuses to start and raises a Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted error. Full log at http://pastebin.com/B45WFr0F. Help welcome... maybe I just forgot something stupid, maybe this is a real issue. More info: Realtime setup done at installed time Realtime setup confirmed via the Ubustu Controls app (user in audio group, memlock, rtprio) Kernels tested: generic, lowlatency Tested under normal user account and with sudo Gear: Edirol FA-66 through a TI PCMCIA card that used to work flawlessly under Lucid and Maverick. Natty 20101212 x86 Thanks for your help, -- Ronan One issue I see right away is that you should not be using Ubuntu Studio Controls to adjust the realtime settings. Unless things have changed (perhaps they have), Ubuntu Studio Controls edits /etc/security/limits.conf, which is the wrong file. The file you will want to edit is /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf. Because you've used Ubuntu Studio Controls, there's a chance that you have settings in both limits.conf and audio.conf, and this can definitely cause issues. Make sure only one of those files has the realtime settings. Hope that helps! -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re:
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Stefano Vettorazzi Campos stefan...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome to the list! 2010/12/12 Alexandros Bitoulas albitou...@yahoo.gr Hello to everybody. I am sending this mail in order to be able to post to the list of Ubuntu Studio Users. Thanks in advance. Regards, Alex Bitoulas You've succeeded. Welcome! -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: irc meeting
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com wrote: NEXT MEETING at UTC Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 01:00:00 in the irc channel #ubuntustudio-devel on freenode. i used http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html to convert the time to UTC... for example... Location Local time Time zone New York (U.S.A. - New York) Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 8:00:00 PM UTC-5 hours EST UTC Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 01:00:00 the following link will put you right in the 'action' after you choose a nick name and solve a captcha.. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntustudio-develuio=d4 I'll try to get my work schedule adjusted so I can attend this time. It should hopefully not be too hard to do. Also, thanks for picking my design idea for the site! It'll be fun to see where it goes from here. On a side note, I finally finished a small on-line portfolio, which I said I would show you all whenever it was done. It is here for anyone who is interested: http://www.sunmachine.coop/briandavid/ Thanks! -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: irc meeting
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com wrote: NEXT MEETING at UTC Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 01:00:00 in the irc channel #ubuntustudio-devel on freenode. i used http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html to convert the time to UTC... for example... Location Local time Time zone New York (U.S.A. - New York) Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 8:00:00 PM UTC-5 hours EST UTC Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 01:00:00 the following link will put you right in the 'action' after you choose a nick name and solve a captcha.. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntustudio-develuio=d4 I'll try to get my work schedule adjusted so I can attend this time. It should hopefully not be too hard to do. Also, thanks for picking my design idea for the site! It'll be fun to see where it goes from here. On a side note, I finally finished a small on-line portfolio, which I said I would show you all whenever it was done. It is here for anyone who is interested: http://www.sunmachine.coop/briandavid/ Thanks! -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: fglrx ATI driver and rt kernel how to?
Abogani will need to confirm this, but I don't think the fglrx patch for the Lucid -realtime kernel works yet. If you need to use fglrx and are using Lucid, I'd recommend using the -rt kernel that is in the official Ubuntu repos. On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Gabbe Nord gabbe.n...@gmail.com wrote: Install all fglrx packages from that PPA. I was also confused from the fglrx-installer package but you just need to install all the fglrx packages from the PPA and it will be fine! On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Joan Quintana joan_quint...@yahoo.com wrote: I've been using the ATI propietary driver in my Lucid 10.04 with 2.6.31-11-rt kernel. Quite stable, but difficult and a lot of tweaking to install it. After restore my system to a previous snapshot (where fglrx was working stable), now fglrx is deconfigured once again. From a previous post I realized that there is an fglrx patch from Bogani's PPA. I have the repo already updated (I'm working with his rt kernel), but sudo apt-get install fglrx-installer doesn't found any package. May be I miss something... if this patch is removed from Lucy, can I use this patch from another release (I tried)? is it true that this patch works for lowlatency kernel and not for the rt kernel? Looking for an easy and stable way to working with the ATI driver, thanks. Joan Q -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Does anyone have the ubuntustudio 8.10 .iso files?
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Scott Lavender scottalaven...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:02 AM, J. Scott Edwards wowidb@gmail.comwrote: Hello Scott, You should be able to find all released images here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/ Regards, ScottL Scott, 8.10 is not on the download page, I believe because it has reached it's end of life. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: trying to run my firepod (and other problems)
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:32 AM, martin mentoj_d...@gmx.de wrote: thanks guys for all your help. IT WORKS! after a hole weekend of frickling, about time ;-) and that with only about 5 ms delay. much less then i expected. the solution? downgrading to 10.04, then sleepless playing around with the jack settings and very important: about a hundred reboots (well it felt like hundred). thanks especially to brian. that helped me a lot! now i have two other problems: first of all: the input level of the channels 3-8 (mic / line) is to little. even if i turn up the volume of all my devices to maximum, there is no cliping light flashing. the input-level of the channels 1 and 2 (mic / instruments) is fine. is there a solution? sry, i know, it has nothing to do with ubuntu studio itself, but maybe you can help me anyway. i also have a problem with an extern synthie: it produces a slightly DC, so that the recorded wave is not in the middle (i hope you understand what i mean). with audacity, i can easily fix it with the normalizing funktion. but i cant find an equal funktion in ardour. the normalizing there got no effekt to the slightly shifted 0-db-line. nice new week! martin Just a quick reminder, please post below the text from the e-mail being replied to (such as I've done with this e-mail). A quick question: What is it that you are plugging into the Firepod? Are these mics, or are these instruments? If they are instruments, what kind of instrument? I'm afraid I have no suggestions for your second question. Sorry! But I'm glad you've got the Firepod working. :) -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Wifi app
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Ricardo Lameiro ricardolame...@gmail.comwrote: if you are running ubuntustudio 10.10 you can setup wifi networks on the network settings. if you want roaming access to wifi you can install the network manager, or WICD. 2010/10/31 Alfons Verreijt vocalf...@gmail.com Does anyone know which app can be used to configure wifi connection? my network card ist recognised by the system but there is no way to select the network I know mint works out of the box with this device. How come ubuntu studio doesn't work on wifi? -- Fagote / Contrafagote Bassoon / Contra-bassoon http://myspace.com/ricardolameiro On Maverick, you can use the Network admin tool which is, I believe, under the administration menu. It is a bit buggy, though. You will need to select the check next to Wireless to enable wi-fi. Then you will need to enter your network info manually, and make sure you've checked 'Enable this connection'. Second, once all your settings are entered, you will probably have to restart your computer. I've also noticed that, after enabling wifi and adjusting the settings, the Network program will remove the check next to the Wireless connection, as if it were disabled. Don't believe it! Just reset the computer, and I bet you'll have a working connection. Traditionally, Network Manager (the application used by vanilla Ubuntu) is not installed on Ubuntu Studio because there have been some issues on certain hardware with it interfering with audio applications. This might not be the case for your set-up, and so you might want to install Network Manager once you have a working connection. It will make things easier. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Ubuntu-Studio-users Digest, Vol 42, Issue 18
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Tim Cook timothywayne.c...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 23:00 +, Ricardo Lameiro wrote: If you dont use Ardour, you can remove it, it will not remove all the audio applications, just the metapackage for audio. The metapackage ia only a package that has a list of real application packages. Dont worry, you can remove the software securely. As an example though. If I attempt to remove Gtick. Then Synaptic says it will remove unbuntustudio-audio. Not exactly what I want to do. Maybe it is because; I originally had Lucid installed then installed the ubuntustudio meta-package. ??? Then I upgraded? to Maverick. Not a smart move on my part since there are no low latency kernels available. But it works okay for a hobbyist with the generic kernel and I can wait for Natty. --Tim You are correct that Synaptic will remove the meta package, but this will NOT remove any of the actual individual pieces of software. It'll just remove the metapackage itself, which is not software so much as a list of software. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Ubuntu switching to Unity Desktop
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.auwrote: On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 21:50 -0500, Brian David wrote: I believe that Unity does not currently use Compiz, although it will by the time of Natty's release. In order to use Unity on a desktop right now, you'll want to make sure Compiz is turned off (at least, such is the case with my computer). I always have Compiz turned off, anyway, because it introduces noticeably slower performance with certain applications (GIMP in particular). -- -Brian David I do not use Compiz at current. And at the time of testing Unity, it still did not work with Compiz disabled. I have no dramas with performance in The Gimp with Compiz disabled. Why do you suggest there is a performance hit with it disabled? Regards -- Chris Jones We are having a simple communication error. I was saying that GIMP is noticeably slower with Compiz enabled, not disabled. In other words, we are agreeing. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: trying to run my firepod
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:51 AM, mentoj dija mentoj_d...@gmx.de wrote: i am running 10.04 lucid LTS with https://launchpad.net/~falk-t-j/+archive/lucidhttps://launchpad.net/%7Efalk-t-j/+archive/lucid added (lucid has linux-rt in the repos, and falks PPA has the realtime kernels from https://launchpad.net/~abogani/+archive/ppahttps://launchpad.net/%7Eabogani/+archive/ppa )... the presonus firepod works great for me even at lower latency settings... i can usually push to 1.2msecs if needed, and around 5msecs is very stable... i run both an ubuntustudio 64bit install, and a 32bit vanilla ubuntu install that i added some ubuntustudio metapackges to... both have falks PPA added... -- MH I am running a very similar set-up with a Firepod, and get similar results to Mike's. It works very well. I am also still using Lucid, and don't have any plans to use Maverick, at least not on any machines that I need to do serious work on. Here are the basic steps I take to get the Firepod working, many or all of which you've probably seen in other guides: 1) Make sure you are in the Audio group 2) Use Ubuntu Studio Controls to set the Firewire privelages. *WARNING* Do not use Ubuntu Studio Controls to set anything else! 3) Download the -rt kernel from the archive, or the -realtime kernel from Abogani's PPA (which is a more up-to-date kernel, but you won't be able to use any closed video drivers with it) 4) Make sure your JACK settings are correct. In particular, make sure the 'Realtime' option is set. That should get the thing started. Here are a few troubleshooting tips if you are getting a lot of x-runs: -Make sure you have not adjusted any setting in /etc/security/limits.conf. That is the wrong file, and will cause issues if you do adjustments there (this is the file that Ubuntu Studio Controls incorrectly edits). The correct file is /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf. -Try turning off Network Manager (which will need to be installed in Lucid if you wish to get a wireless connection). Just right-click on the app and uncheck 'enable networking'. Hope some of these things help. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Tasks, Workflows, and Packages for Ubuntu Studio Natty
I agree with a lot of Scott's sentiments on trying to cut back on some of these programs. For instance, in my case the type of music I make and the recording approaches I take mean that I have only ever used: -JACK -Ardour -Jamin -Occasionally Hydrogen As you can see, for a user like me, there are just way too many other audio applications that I have no idea what to do with. It would be nice to have the choice to install just a base set of audio applications. And then, if I ever decide I need more MIDI editing, or some software instruments, I can just go download them. Coming from that perspective, the only reason I can see for having any other audio recording/editing program on the ISO besides Ardour would be if someone wants to do MIDI. And perhaps after Ardour 3 is released, there would essentially be no reason to have anything else. Now, does Audacity or LMMS do certain things better? Sure, and if you want to use them, you can still download them. On the other hand, I would like to see Sound Converter and GCD Master added. I'll write up a work flow that shows how these incorporate into common tasks and add it to the wiki when I next get the time. -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Ubuntu switching to Unity Desktop
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.auwrote: On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:17 +0200, Antoine Thomas wrote: I am not so sure about that. I have tested Unity in its current form on my onboard Intel i865 video chipset which can run Compiz just fine. Yet Unity simply does not work, on the same hardware. Although this may change as development comes along. Regards -- Chris Jones I believe that Unity does not currently use Compiz, although it will by the time of Natty's release. In order to use Unity on a desktop right now, you'll want to make sure Compiz is turned off (at least, such is the case with my computer). I always have Compiz turned off, anyway, because it introduces noticeably slower performance with certain applications (GIMP in particular). -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Natty -lowlatency kernel
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@ubuntu.comwrote: Hi, I would want let you notice that I made a preliminary (and untested) version of the Natty -lowlatency kernel for testing. It is available through my PPA ( https://launchpad.net/~abogani/+archive/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=field.status_filter=publishedfield.series_filter=nattyhttps://launchpad.net/%7Eabogani/+archive/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=field.status_filter=publishedfield.series_filter=natty ). I suggest to use a VM for first tests at least. Any feedback is welcome! Ciao, Alessio I attempted to test -lowlatency, but could not even get JACK started on my VM Natty install. Virtual Machines run very slow on my computer, making it frustrating to test things. I'll try again when the first alpha gets released. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu switching to Unity Desktop
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Antoine Thomas tto...@ttoine.net wrote: Imho, we should first test if Unity desktop has a good or bad influence on stability and performances. Once tested, it will be time to say if it is good to keep Gnome and wait for Gnome 3.0, or follow on Unity. Think that if we choose to continue to use Gnome desktop, we will have to maintain more stuff by ourselves, this is a lot of work, or perhaps there will be a new Gubuntu flavor (like Kubuntu) on which we might count. But it means a lot of work and skills we don't have. Maybe it's better to focus on applications packaging, performance optimization, etc... than on which desktop should the default one. If Unity works well, why should we bored ?? Toine Spent some time messing around with Unity today and. . .I kind of like it, to be honest. Give it a few more months of tweaking and I'd be completely okay with using it. I am concerned about the 3d graphics requirement. I know a lot of people use Ubuntu (and Linux in general) to run older machines, so that could be an issue. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Putting the cart before the horse. (was: Final Notes on the Ubuntu Studio Website)
Alright, I've finished the next updates on my theme. It has been converted to a dark theme (using some of the more flashy graphics I have been working on. I felt the flat colors of the light theme just didn't work well in the dark version), and I've separated it into a landing page and a content page. You can find the images, as well as some descriptive text, at the revamp wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/TaskWebRevamp I named the theme 'Impact' (cheesy, I know) and it is below Benjamin's 'Audio Horizons' theme. Let me know what you all think. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Putting the cart before the horse. (was: Final Notes on the Ubuntu Studio Website)
Hey everyone, while working an updated mock-up for my website theme, I came up with an idea for an Ubuntu Studio wallpaper. It looks like this: http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/amp_thumbnail.png The pic is of an older amplifier I use for my turntable. This image is just a thumbnail, and not usable as a wallpaper. If anyone wants an actual wallpaper, just let me know what size, and I'll post it. I'll try to get the finished mock-up out to the list later tonight. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Question concerning ubuntu studio 10.10
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Janne Jokitalo astralj...@kapsi.fi wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:53:35PM +0200, Tamas Hanula wrote: Dear developers, Want to ask if there is a plan to release the new ubuntu studio based on the Ubuntu 10.10 version. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/10.10/release/ If yes, what will be the approximate release date. Looks to me like it was released on the same date than vanilla Ubuntu, which is usually the case with official derivates. Best regards, -- Jaska The confusion is likely due to the fact that the Ubuntu Studio website does not say there is a new release, and does not have any links. But it's there! Here's a link: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/10.10/release/ -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Little advise for all who will work on closed video drivers (was Closed video drivers for -realtime kernels)
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@ubuntu.comwrote: Hi Brian, 2010/10/14 Brian David beej...@gmail.com: [...] Alessio, here is a link to the requested log files: http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/xorg_logs.zip Apologies for taking so long to get these to you. Don't worry! :-) The /var/log/Xorg.[0-9]*.log and dmesg output are mandatory for help to understand problems under all kernels. The former it is particularly X oriented when the latter is more generic (it is cover all things controlled by kernel). *SNIP* Ciao, Alessio Thanks for the excellent instructions! I attempted to work on this today, however I got to step 4 (Switch to command line interface (CTRL+ALT+F1)) and was unable to get to a CLI prompt. I wait until X fails, the screen goes blank, and after making sure the system is no longer doing anything, I hit CTRL+ALT+F1. Nothing happens, and I am forced to do a hard reset. What should I try next? -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Closed video drivers for -realtime kernels
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@ubuntu.comwrote: Hi Brian, 2010/10/11 Brian David beej...@gmail.com: [...] Alessio, fglrx will now install without errors on -realtime, but X will not start. All I get is a blank screen. What commands should I run to get you the information you need? As first step could you provide /var/log/Xorg.[0-9]*.log files, please? Alessio, here is a link to the requested log files: http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/xorg_logs.zip Apologies for taking so long to get these to you. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Putting the cart before the horse. (was: Final Notes on the Ubuntu Studio Website)
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Benjamin Turner passionsplaydes...@gmail.com wrote: Brian I'm liking the structural elements, specifically how the logo is front and center, anchoring the whole page. One thing that feels just a bit off to me is that the colors are all so close to each other on the color wheel - blues to purple, with a bunch of white. I wonder what would happen if you incorporated just a touch of yellow, maybe orange, to add some contrast. - Benjamin Yeah, I'm kind of a sucker for monochromatic color schemes. I don't know if I'd want to throw in any yellows, but I can try it with the Ubuntu Studio color palette that Scott suggested. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Putting the cart before the horse. (was: Final Notes on the Ubuntu Studio Website)
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Scott Lavender scottalaven...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Benjamin Turner passionsplaydes...@gmail.com wrote: Thinking further on it I have two requests. Can you try to use some of the official colors? Perhaps use the first blue from this page? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Artwork/DIYConcept#Color%20Palette Also, would it be possible to make a dark theme? At least as an alternate? Thank you again for the work you have done! ScottL I'm not sure if this is directed at Benjamin or me, or perhaps both. Regardless, I could apply either suggestion to my design. However, I would like to get back to the question of decision making for this process. It would be helpful for me, and probably others, to know exactly what approach Scott plans to take for making the ultimate decision here, and in what time frame. I'm okay with whatever is decided, I just don't want to spend too much more time on these mock-ups before I know with more certainty if I'll be working on this project, and in what capacity. It would be frustrating to come up with something really polished, only to have it decided that we'll be moving in a different direction. :) -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Closed video drivers for -realtime kernels
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@ubuntu.comwrote: Hi Brian, 2010/10/11 Brian David beej...@gmail.com: [...] Alessio, fglrx will now install without errors on -realtime, but X will not start. All I get is a blank screen. What commands should I run to get you the information you need? As first step could you provide /var/log/Xorg.[0-9]*.log files, please? Thanks! Ciao, Alessio Thanks, I'll work on this later today. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Closed video drivers for -realtime kernels
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@ubuntu.comwrote: Hi, 2010/10/11 Brian David beej...@gmail.com: [...] I do not believe this is correct. There is no -rt or -realtime kernel available for Maverick in the official repos or in Alessio's PPA (there may be some in another PPA, or course). There is -realtime (and also -lowlatency) kernel for Maverick in my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~abogani/+archive/ppa/+packageshttps://launchpad.net/%7Eabogani/+archive/ppa/+packages Moreover also on: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git In any case, as promised in a my previous email, I'll drop these in few hours. Ciao, Alessio I would like to say that I had planned to use -realtime and -lowlatency once Maverick had come out. I was just not in a very good position to do a lot of testing while it was in Beta. If you are still willing to work on it for Maverick, you'll have at least me as one user. :) Otherwise, I don't mind sticking with Lucid for a while. I do need some kind of real-time kernel to use Ubuntu Studio on any serious projects. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Audio no longer feasible with vanilla Ubuntu + Studio packages (?)
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Ronan Jouchet ro...@jouchet.fr wrote: On 10/08/2010 12:14 AM, Brian David wrote: Hi Brian, Yes I tried disabling NetworkManager (by unchecking nm in the Startup options, completely disabling it at logon) I also tried disabling compiz, it didn't help. Anything else I should try? Thanks! Also, you should not be using limits.conf anymore. JACK will create /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf, and that is the one that should be used to adjust settings. I think it might cause trouble if these settings are listed in both limits.conf and audio.conf What kind of interface are you using? -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Audio no longer feasible with vanilla Ubuntu + Studio packages (?)
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Ronan Jouchet ro...@jouchet.fr wrote: Howdy, TToine: yes I added myself to the audio group (that's what the usual setup in groups meant in my extremely imprecise original mail :P ) Brian, yay! You're right these settings were in /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf (thanks to jackd2's dpkg install procedure, am I right?) but I also added them manually in /etc/security/limits.conf . Seems to work fine after restoring limits.conf. And sorry if the following questions have already been answered, but: a. is audio.conf new to jack2? b. why this change? c. should we leave limits.conf alone now? I am using an Edirol FA-66. And while we're at it, now seems a good time to empty my bag of related questions: d. I read about changes in the firewire stack (different kinds of /dev beasts used now). Do they concern all firewire cards, and what is their impact? e. is adding the user to the disk group still required? f. under lucid, in order to get jack to start I often had to modprobe raw1394 chmod a+rw /dev/raw1394 . Under Maverick I no longer need this, is this thanks to the new firewire stack, some kind of new auto setup, or the powerz of keyboard cat playing during a full moon night? Thanks everybody for your grrreat help! Ronan Looks like all your questions got answered. I will say that I use a firewire device myself (a Firepod) and while it does work out of the box in Maverick, I found it did not work well i.e. lots of x-runs. However, when I used Ubuntu Studio Controls to adjust firewire priveleges, it worked much better. I would not use Ubuntu Studio Controls for anything else, though, as it still modifies limits.conf, and as this discussion has pointed out, that is no longer the right file. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Maverick -lowlatency and -realtime kernel dropped
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@ubuntu.comwrote: Hi All, Since no one offer helps for these kernels on Maverick I'll drop completely these, as promised, from my PPA in two days. In any case Lucid packages of these kernel rest in place. Ciao, Alessio Alessio, I have updated your Wiki page, if you wouldn't mind looking it over and making sure it is still accurate. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RealTime -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: DKMS and Wiki from real time kernels
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@ubuntu.comwrote: Hi All, 2010/10/5 Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@ubuntu.com: I really need of someone could take care of a little wiki page about all real time kernels (differences, reasons, TODO, list of volunteers, packing status and so on). In this way new comers could find reply to their questions. [...] Since no one have offered to handle a simple and single wiki page I did it by myself. Please take a minute to see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RealTime Obviously feel free to officially assign yourself on something changing accordingly above mentioned wiki page. ;) Thanks. Ciao, Alessio Alessio, I can help testing any fixes for fglrx. Also, in general, I would like to learn how to package, maintain and test an -rt kernel, as that is the ideal kernel to me and I wish to help keep it going. (I will update the wiki page with this change a little later) Also, I can do a little cleaning up of the writing on the wiki page. I have a quick question about that. When you write The -preempt and -rt kernels are died, aren't it? I'm not clear what the exact meaning is. Do you mean: Have the -preempt and -rt kernels died? [Perhaps meant as a rhetorical question i.e. this wiki page is going to answer that question] Also, when it is mentioned that there needs to be a solid FAQ, is that meant on just kernels in general, on just that wiki page, or for Ubuntu Studio in general? I ask because I am a decent writer and can work on stuff like that, as long as the info is available. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Last call (was Natty and RT Kernel)
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@ubuntu.comwrote: 2010/10/4 Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@ubuntu.com: Do you know of some sort of bugs on that kernel? Are you using some closed video drivers (nvidia, fglrx, virtualbox, lirc, drbd, asterisk, bcmwl, r5u87xa and so on)? Do you plan to migrate to Maverick soon or remain stick on Lucid? Which arch are you using (i386 known as 32 bit or amd64 known as 64 bit systems. Damn Italian keyboard! Ciao, Alessio ~ passed to topo chico I would also ask that Alessio or anyone else who knows send links for how to learn this stuff. I'll spend some time today researching, but it would make things a little easier if people who know could just point us in the right direction. Since you asked about bugs in the -realtime kernel, I would like to say that my desktop's ATI card has never worked with the -realtime kernel. It's a somewhat older card (Radeon 5000 series) that is not supported by the open drivers, and so I need to use fglrx. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Last call (was Natty and RT Kernel)
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@ubuntu.comwrote: It is really hard pinpoint on something useful if you don't explain me what do you would want learn. Kernel programming? Test on latency and jitter corner case? Tips Tricks? What is the final objective do you want achieve? Without that specification I couldn't suggest something. I would like to have reference for all of these things. I want to know about the whole process that you need to do to get an -rt kernel prepared. That is the goal: to make a good -rt kernel. That may sound broad, and that's because I don't even know were to start. I have know idea what particular issues I'd be interested in, and which ones I can best help on, because I don't know anything about the process. Since you asked about bugs in the -realtime kernel, I would like to say that my desktop's ATI card has never worked with the -realtime kernel. It's a somewhat older card (Radeon 5000 series) that is not supported by the open drivers, and so I need to use fglrx. I'll take care only of the bugs reported by active people(*) . Do you want one of these? :) To clarify, are you asking if I want to report a bug? Or be an active member? I would like to be both. If you are asking if I want to report a bug, do you mean via Launchpad? See, this what I mean. I'm starting from an extreme point of ignorance here. Don't assume any prior knowledge. This is often a problem on lists like this. People will come in with earnest desires to help, and when they ask how they can start, they can get obtuse answers like 'start reporting bugs'. Reporting bugs where? And how? What's the most effective way to report bugs? Have you ever seen the posts on a Launchpad bug? They're confusing! What are those people doing? (yes, I am being a little goofy here) This is not meant to offend anyone, I just think that a lot of the more experienced users on the list, especially the ones who are asking for more support, don't genuinely know how they come across to beginners. I've been on this list for a while, and I have seen several people stop participating because they get what seems like rude behavior from people who are asking for their help (I do not mean that you are being rude, Alessio, because you are not. It's an overall observation.) Sometimes the rudeness is not intentional, it's just people giving an answer that they feel is adequate, when it is not. This a tough environment for beginners, and that's a problem when we are trying to recruit people. The best thing we can do to get more people on board is to figure out how to get them the information they need -- and be VERY detailed and nice about it. Sorry, that ended up being more long-winded than I expected. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Putting the cart before the horse. (was: Final Notes on the Ubuntu Studio Website)
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Scott Lavender scottalaven...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Benjamin Turner passionsplaydes...@gmail.com wrote: I hope to address some of the questions in this email later this week. Properly identifying the audience and the purpose of the website is critical in order to make the website useful. I have given it quite a bit of thought but haven't really devoted time to fleshing it out and writing it down. However, in that fashion I have been working on this mock-up for the past two weeks while exploring audience and purpose: http://www.fossmusicproject.org/public/images/website-mockup-3.png I trust that most people will find this mock-up far superior to my last one ;) Comments are encouraged and welcomed (even ones that say it sucks). ScottL I'm liking the general direction this is headed. I would say that it looks a little busy. Also, I think using Linux for Creative Humans is better than Set Your Creativity Free. I also don't care for the Experience. . . added to the Ubuntu Logo. Those are the initial thoughts that come to mind. Also, were you thinking there would be a gateway page, or would this be the page people see immediately upon going to ubuntustudio.com? Would you be able to send a link for the .svg? I'd like to try combining some of your ideas with the things I've been working on, and see what that might look like. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Real-time kernels from the Ubuntu Studio Lucid repositories
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@ubuntu.comwrote: Hi, 2010/10/3 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net: [...] 2.6.31-11-rt ends in tty1 2.6.31-10-rt ends also in tty1, for this kernel I logged in and run Did you try the proprietary nvidia driver? Please remember that every driver which use DKMS infrastructure (like nvidia and fglrx) require mandatory installation of headers packages of all installed kernels. Ciao, Alessio I ran into a problem with this the other day. Some sort of re-installation of fglrx had to take place on my computer, but the package would not build under the -realtime kernel. As a result, the package didn't builld under any of my kernels, and I lost my video driver. I had to entirely uninstall the -realtime kernel, including all headers, before I could re-install fglrx to the -generic kernel. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: The different realtime kernels
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 11:23 -0500, Scott Lavender wrote: Indamixx is using 64 Studio, the distro I'm using to produce music. This is not entirely correct. It is using Transmission, as Scott said. I believe Transmission itself is a derivative of 64 Studio. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Ubuntu Studio Logo Designs
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Marc R.J. Brevoort m...@dnd.utwente.nlwrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Cory K. wrote: I think the grey/blue contrast in the first images doesn't work very well- the second one being a bit better due to the black outline. I like the N and T flowing into each other- I'd keep them the same colour to enhance the effect. I like the big logo in the third picture- in the versions with the smaller logo, the logo seems a bit out of place due to the way it's aligned with the text. Overall I think Brian's version looks the most pro (We all love gradients and rounded corners! Fortunately, they're not too over-the-top). I don't get why two words in the slogan need a different shade but that's probaby just me going whoosh!. It's a bit loud image though- ...And more! Download NOW (or else)! I'll crawl back into my shell now... Best, Marc The loudness was, to an extent, a bit of a joke. Since I was throwing in the text mostly as a placeholder, I couldn't help but get a little sarcastic (thus the . . .and more!). :) Looking at it now, I agree with your assessment of the highlighted words. I'll go back and make those uniform. Also, I think your remark about the gradients and rounded-corners hints a good point: it is the type of thing that gets done a lot. I'll see what other variations I can come up with that are based on the same basic idea, but maybe a little less Web-2.0-ish. It's always good to have options! -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Natty and RT Kernel (was Maverick and RT)
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Ricardo Lameiro ricardolame...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Laurent I am very happy with the work beeing done with lprod and other groups around linux and multimedia. the main problem about Ubuntu Studio, is that people dont have patience to work with ubuntu rules. Ubuntu studio is a community version, but that is partly supported by ubuntu. So freeze, new app insertions etc need to be made by ubuntu /debian rules. The problem is that people dont want to follow that rules, at least packaging. If insted of making that new distros with other packages with newers software, maybe the devs could join the already existing teams. Ubuntu studio and debian multimedia and help packaging more upstream as possible. because, they benefit from the work from others, but I dont see them contributing back. Shame on them. Falktx maintains a ppa for both ubuntu studio and kxstudio. I understand he want to make a kde derivative, but why another gnome one??? why doesnt that devs come to the #ubuntustudio-devel IRC channel? but, they do things on top of others. Audio linux users are very few, and if people start splitting, then it will be worse... but is related to musician, everyone want to pass on top of the others to say they are better, instead of collaborate sorry for the rant, but it is very disapointing to see this stuff happenn PS. worse of all, they dont even use a good kernel for multimedia. I can empathize with some of the reasons people want to make their own distro, but Linux audio is never going to progress until we get enough people focused on just one project. At this point, I feel Ubuntu Studio should be that project, because of it's connection to Ubuntu in general. I've tried several other distros, as I think all of us have, with varying degrees of success. While some distros are easier and more effective than others, it should be remembered that there is *not a single one that is usable by the average audio enthusiast*. At this point, someone who wants to get into Linux audio either needs to have some familiarity with Linux, or a lot of curiosity and a whole lot of free time. Ubuntu's approach has gone a long way towards making desktop Linux accessible to the normal person. We should extend that vision by using Ubuntu's powerful community to develop as easy to use and accessible a multimedia-workstation as possible. Why try to build a whole new community by scratch, when Ubuntu has already done that for us? One last thought on -rt kernels. Some people have mentioned that real-time is only for performance enthusiasts. This is not entirely true. There are definitely some computers that are not usable as a DAW in any manner without a -rt kernel. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Ubuntu Studio Logo Designs
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Scott Lavender scottalaven...@gmail.comwrote: Just playing with the Ubuntu Studio logo with the new fonts and branding and thought I would share. http://www.fossmusicproject.org/public/images/studiologo-twotone-1.png http://www.fossmusicproject.org/public/images/studiologo-twotone-2.png If anyone is interested I have others in my deviantart gallery: http://scottalavender.deviantart.com/gallery/ Cheers, ScottL -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel I have also done my good Ubuntu deeds for the day! Not only did I do a run through of some of the Maverick test cases, but I have a mock-up of a potential shiny button with simple layout web page. You can see it here: http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/mock-up_simple.png You can get the svg here, if you'd like to mess around with it: http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/mock-up_simple.svg It's still a little rough, but I like it. Let me know what you think. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Natty and RT Kernel (was Maverick and RT)
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@ubuntu.comwrote: Hi Brian, Hi Jeremy, Sorry for my very bad English. Which are kernels on you are interested in? The -rt, -lowlatency or -realtime? Which kernels you use on per day basis (so you can provide test and feedback)? Which Ubuntu releases do you would want see well supported for that/those kernels? Every releases or only LTS? Thanks! Ciao, Alessio I am mainly interested in -rt. That gives the best performance. I also have successfully used -realtime, although that kernel gives me more problems. I use -rt on a daily basis for audio work. I would be happy with a solid -rt kernel on just the LTS. Ideally it would be nice to have one with every release, but I imagine that would take much more work. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Natty and RT Kernel (was Maverick and RT)
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Scott Lavender scottalaven...@gmail.comwrote: I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but I want people to have realistic expectations as well. I would not expect the -preempt, -rt, or -realtime kernels to be maintained in the official archives (repositories). These would need to be maintained in a PPA, although it is probable that this could be maintained in an official Ubuntu Studio PPA. It is my understanding that these kernels cannot be included in the Ubuntu Studio ISO if they are not in the archives. I would expect the -lowlatency and -generic kernels to be in the archives and therefore can be included on the ISO. Therefore, my suggestions would be to focus on the -lowlatency (which will need to be community maintained and in the repos) and the -rt kernel (which many users desire for performance but maintained in a PPA). Cheers, ScottL That is fine with me. I should clarify: It doesn't matter to me if the -rt or -realtime kernels are on the ISO or a PPA. As long as they are available and of good quality, then I'm happy. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Maverick and RT
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Scott Lavender scottalaven...@gmail.comwrote: Brian, A few thoughts about the -rt kernel. My understanding is that the -rt kernel is a product of the -generic kernel with a -rt patch that is provide from upstream. Ingo NMolnar use to make the patch, but I believe someone, or a couple of someones, make it now. It should be noted that this patch was neither created nor available for all released kernel versions. This yields trouble keeping the kernel versions in Ubuntu Studio and Ubuntu aligned, which is desirable to many, many peoples and groups. Therefore, the official decision was to remove the -rt kernel was removed from the official archives (repositories). However, we are working towards getting the -lowlatency kernel into the official archives and hope to have that as the default installed kernel in Ubuntu Studio. That being said, many people still prefer the -rt kernel, among these I believe firewire audio interface users are the primary audience. As noted, Alessio has a PPA with the -rt kernel, which appears to be version 2.6.33. I should note that the kernel is maverick is 2.6.35, so using the -rt kernel from Alessio's PPA may yield better performance but with the loss of some hardware drivers and other improvements. This may not be a problem from some people, but it should be noted so that people are aware of the possibility. Finally, you might have experienced optimal (or at least satisfactory) results with the previous -rt kernel. This may have been the 2.6.31 -rt kernel. I contrast this with the 2.6.33 -rt kernel currently in Alessio's PPA. I hope this provides some useful information. If you have further questions, or if anyone has corrections to anything I said, please reply. Regards, ScottL That all makes sense. I'll do some more testing with Alessio's kernels and see if I can get them to work well. Mike, I have been able to get this particular MacBook to run very solid in the past, so I know it's possible. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Maverick and RT
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com wrote: what chipset does it have? I have an Agere chipset, too. I was also able to get everything working well using Alessio's realtime kernel, so that's exciting. I don't have time to explain the details at the moment, I'll send out an e-mail later explaining. Looking forward to the official release! -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Amateurs ???
The Ubuntu Studio meta-packages won't install the rt kernel by default anymore. You will need to specifically install the linux-rt package, after which GRUB will automatically allow you to choose from the kernels. I'd also recommend looking at this page concerning the various kernels available for Ubuntu Studio: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/RealTimeKernel I'm not sure how it is in Maverick, but in Lucid, the rt kernel is patched from an older generic kernel, and so it was more or less officially recommended to use other kernels. Personally, I've found that the RT kernel is the only one that gives me the performance I want. On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Tim Cook timothywayne.c...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 01:02 -0400, Mike Holstein wrote: welcome Tim... check out the IRC channel if you get a chance.. #ubuntustudio on freenode... also.. http://www.opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/ ...i bet your development skills would be welcome... ... im holstein on freenode... Thanks Mike. I'll check it out. I'm 'twcook' on freenode. A question about -rt kernels. I went through the Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu Studio (US) upgrade? via the Synaptic meta package :-) I now have a US splash screen and I got all of the apps. qjackctl flashes the RT about once per second or so. But uname -a reports: Linux mlhim-dell-laptop 2.6.32-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 17 20:05:27 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Do I need to edit GRUB (is GRUB the Ubuntu bootmanager?) in order to have the RT Kernel boot by default? Did anyone else experience this? Thanks, Tim -- *** Timothy Cook, MSc Project Lead - Multi-Level Healthcare Information Modeling http://www.mlhim.org LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook Skype ID == timothy.cook Academic.Edu Profile: http://uff.academia.edu/TimothyCook You may get my Public GPG key from popular keyservers or from this link http://timothywayne.cook.googlepages.com/home -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Maverick and RT
Okay, I finally started checking out the beta for Maverick, and I like it. I'll have some other things to write about it, but first I have a question. There doesn't seem to be an RT kernel at all in Maverick. That is not good. I've tried all the other alternatives, including Alessio's realtime kernel, and they just do not give me the performance I want. So, the question I have is, where is the RT kernel? -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Maverick and RT
I was under that impression, too. But the realtime kernel in Alessio's repository is just not working that well for me. I'm running on a first generation MacBook, to answer the hardware question. On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com wrote: what hardware? was it stable with the old RT kernel in previous versions? i was under the impression (and it seemed to react this way on my system) that Alessio's -realtime kernel = the RT kernel, just not the official ubuntu repo version... i guess the short answer is, the RT kernel is not in the repo... On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Brian David beej...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, I finally started checking out the beta for Maverick, and I like it. I'll have some other things to write about it, but first I have a question. There doesn't seem to be an RT kernel at all in Maverick. That is not good. I've tried all the other alternatives, including Alessio's realtime kernel, and they just do not give me the performance I want. So, the question I have is, where is the RT kernel? -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users -- MH http://www.myspace.com/mikeholstein http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/ -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Maverick and RT
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com wrote: what audio device? A PreSonus Firepod. So a firewire interface. However, just running Hydrogen through the speakers on the MacBook using the Alsa driver still producers too many x-runs. I've never been able to get this computer to run well on anything but a real RT kernel. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Putting the cart before the horse. (was: Final Notes on the Ubuntu Studio Website)
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Scott Lavender scottalaven...@gmail.comwrote: Brian, * comic book sketch * Your sketch is pretty cool. I like it. This is something that could be be used for a GDM background or desktop wallpaper when completed. Personally, I would favour using user derived art and graphics (even music) in a default Ubuntu Studio installation as long as it flowed well with the accepted theme and art concept. * DIY theme * Rather than deny an artistic concept with a blanket statement I would suggest that we value any examples by their merits individually. I would imagine that some DIY concepts might present themselves as unprofessional, while others would extend themselves as hip or cool (LOL...does that make me old to say that?) If someone has an mock-up then I would love to see it and evaluate it's merits. * website wireframe * I think it's awesome that you attached the image to the website revamp wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/TaskWebRevamp#Original%20vs%20Planned%20Site : I would not feel compelled to follow the same layout as before, rather I would encourage you to use a different layout. A few of points about possible layouts I would like to make as well: * minimize the branding height (even so much that only the top of the letters for Ubuntu Studio is visible perhaps) * use 2 columns (as a minimum) * put download button (maybe help and features walkthrough too) inside branding area * keep as much above the red line as possible I downloaded the .svg file and have been playing with it. I hope to have something in the coming days. I also note that the background image does not appear on my computer because it was a linked image. Not that it really matters since I'll be moving everything around anyways :P Thanks again, Brain, for you involvement and initiative. ScottL Just a quick note, I wasn't the person who put the wireframe up on the Wiki. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Putting the cart before the horse. (was: Final Notes on the Ubuntu Studio Website)
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Louie Queral louiethecu...@gmail.comwrote: Scott: If we made everything the DIY look, I think it would become too cluttered and gimmicky. I think it should be clean and clear. I'm a musician, and I look at US like a desk: I would rather have my desk be a solid color, with no blemishes to help me think and finish my project. If my desk was cluttered and grungy looking, I think it would be very counter productive. Mike: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Artwork/DIYConcept On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Scott Lavender scottalaven...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Louie Queral louiethecu...@gmail.comwrote: This is off-topic, but still, in my mind, a relatively important point. I really don't like the DIY theme for either the OS as a whole or US's website. I think that it makes it look a bit too unprofessional and it may detract people from using US. Would anyone agree? Are you saying what we currently have is unprofessional or if we changed everything to a DIY theme it would be unprofessional? I actually got a job pretty quick and started last Monday, so I don't have the free time I expected. Still, I've got something to show you all. Here's a sketch I did of what I think of when I refer to 'comic book' style, as opposed to the cell-shaded Borderlands look seen on the Wiki: http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/sketch_01_thumb.png The logo is based off Cory's, though it is still using my font imitation, so the 'o' is different. Imagine this properly inked and colored, and you get the idea. This particular image would probably be more useful for a Plymouth splash or GTK theme as opposed to website imagery, but I think it gets the point across. Also, I don't think the DIY idea needs to look cluttered or gimmicky. Take a look at the graphic in the upper left of Mozilla's site: http://www.mozilla.org/ That conveys a DIY feel, with the paint strokes, but still looks simple and slick. I'll try to come up with a mock-up of the more simple, shiny slick button theme in a few days. Let me know what you all think. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Putting the cart before the horse. (was: Final Notes on the Ubuntu Studio Website)
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Scott Lavender scottalaven...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Cory K. coryis...@gmail.com wrote: What *needs* to be settled 1st before *anything* should be put together is: Audience - Who we're talking to. It's a major first step from which everything is built. If Scott hasn't already done it, he should start a wiki page outlining our audiance and new direction. Aesthetic/stylistic guidelines can be developed from there. This needs to be managed by him as he's the current lead. Also, doing anything for 10.10 should be abandoned. It's just too late in the cycle and rushing things now will show in the final product. A good concerted effort for Natty is best IMO. -Cory K. Okay, I've updated the website revamp website to include an area for audience and themes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/TaskWebRevamp Please update the website with more examples or further thoughts as appropriate. Thank you, ScottL -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel So, about this 'target audience' thing: I don't know if we want to make 'familiarity with Linux' a main attribute. Sure, anyone who wants to use UbuStu will need to learn Linux, but we shouldn't assume any initial knowledge. Let's not forget that this is Ubuntu, a distro that has branded itself as the most easy-to-use. We are looking to bring people into the fold who perhaps have always wanted to try Linux, but were too intimidated by the learning curve. These people might be interested because: -They support community-developed projects, and align with the ideals of things like GPL, Creative Commons, etc. -Are unhappy with the state of 'industry standard' software Now, I do agree that the target audience should already have some kind of proficiency in their field, whether it is music or graphics. These people will want professional, alternative software, but they won't want to spend a lot of down time converting. Therefore, Ubuntu Studio should do what it can to work out-of-the-box, and for those things which the user absolutely must fix themselves, then there should be plenty of easily available documentation/tutorials to help them through. Just my thoughts. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Final Notes on the Ubuntu Studio Website (It gets done here!)
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Louie Queral louiethecu...@gmail.comwrote: we've had tons of ideas thrown back and forth, we just need to all collectively agree on these different ideas. Things like the layout, design, and content of the site are all things we should come up with a conclusion for sooner than later. Been a very long day, going to be a bit short with this email. @ Cory - Right. I agree, keep all the info here, not only is it in one place, people are already here, and it's archived for everyone to see. @beejunk - Hey thanks! Yes you can really help. I like the links you already posted and I really look forward to seeing your portfolio. If you can work up some ideas for the Ubuntu Studio site that would be great also. Rough mock ups would be cool, anything tangible. You can see the rough site map here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/TaskWebRevamp Also, if I gave you some ideas for art do you think you could turn that into reality? @louie Chris - I really appreciate your enthusiasm and tenacity, however I think we need more ideas, examples, and mock-ups rather than designating positions and creating separate forums. Not trying to be an arse, just straightforward and honest. ScottL -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel I agree that we should keep all the development on this list. It will make things easier. Scott, I would definitely be able to work from any ideas you throw at me. My 'original' output is unpredictable. I do get good ideas, but they tend to strike randomly, so if I needed to come up with a design by scratch it could take me weeks. However, I would be able to take the already proposed layout ideas, as well as ideas on an overall theme, and build from there. Speaking of themes, it seems all we've got so far is Cory K's logo theme, as well as some simple layout mock-ups. It also seems that everyone would like to see something 'simple'. What else would people like to see, in terms of atmosphere? For example, should it looks slick with all the shiny button stuff that's all over the place these days, or should we go for something entirely different? Say, a punk DIY look, or a stylized comic book-like theme? It really doesn't matter, just curious what you all think. Finally, how does one go about getting access to the site? For instance, if I were to set up a new theme, I'd need access to the 'user 1' account, or some account with appropriate privileges. I'd also need FTP access of some sort. What is the policy for this? -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: The audio group
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.auwrote: I know I've raised the question before regarding the inclusion of the real-time kernel in Ubuntu Studio, but why exactly is it necessary? Regards -- Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.au -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel The short answer is, the real-time kernel will decrease the latency for audio applications, thus reducing x-runs. Your mileage will vary, of course. Some computers are unusable for audio without the RT kernel, others really don't need it. The RT kernel tends to be unpredictable (which is why it is no longer the standard Ubuntu Studio kernel), so it is recommended that you use it only if the generic kernel (or specialized variants) does not give you good enough performance. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: (re)Developing the Ubuntu Studio Site
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.auwrote: On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 06:06 -0400, Cory K. wrote: So, do you have any? It's what I've been asking about for 3 posts now. *Layout* work is fine. I'd like to see what you've done on top of all that with past work. After all, *that's* what folks will see and asking to see what else you've done isn't unreasonable. ;) -Cory K. Well I don't believe you've straight out asked yet? If you did, you have a strange way of asking... Besides, I don't have any current examples of my previous web work due to the projects either being temporary, shut-down or replaced by a newer website which I have/had nothing to do with regarding development. Also, how is all that relevant to this project? What I've done previously has nothing to do with this website redevelopment project. Regards -- Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.au I can tell you from experience that Cory K can come across as a bit blunt, but it's nothing to take personally. It seems all he wants to see is some examples of past work, any examples, to gauge what level of technical experience you have. There have been volunteers for this stuff before who turned out to basically have no idea what they were talking about, so it's not an unreasonable thing to ask. As these discussions keep going, remember: tone doesn't translate over the Internet. No one should take offense to anything anyone says, and everyone should try to be as clear with their expectations as possible. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Maverick Art refresh. [logo]
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Cory K. coryis...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/29/2010 02:45 PM, Brian David wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Cory K.coryis...@gmail.com wrote: I have been tinkering with ideas for Maverick's theme and logo. I figured I mention it now since it will have to tie in with a new site. I'll post the theme once I have some issues worked out but for now here's my 1st run of logo ideas. - Simple layout: http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/8725/simplet.png - w/tagline and some possible detail: http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9650/tagline.png *NOTE* Both of these are early but are the general direction I'm going in. I like these. How about having the CoF replace the 'o' in Studio? That might be kind of slick. Where it's currently placed contrasts a bit weirdly with the 'i'. When I look at it, my mind wants to make the CoF the dot for the 'i'. Just some thoughts. Please don't top-post. In Gmail, just move the cursor below the quoted text. Thanx. :) Ha! Sorry, I thought I had gotten good at remembering to do that. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Help testing the backporting of qjackctl to lucid
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:15 PM, scottalaven...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 22, 2010 8:50am, Janne Jokitalo astralj...@kapsi.fi wrote: Hi, I've prepared a backport of qjackctl 0.3.6-1 from maverick to lucid, and it's available in my PPA[0]. Currently we're hoping to get at least three (3) testers who can confirm that the new package works, and defeats the port renames are ignored bug[1]. Can you be one of those people? All you gotta do is check this bug[2] for instructions, and comment on the bug of your results. More details can be found on #ubuntu-studio-devel @ irc.ubuntu.com. Thank you for your participation! [0] https://launchpad.net/~astraljava/+archive/lucidhttps://launchpad.net/%7Eastraljava/+archive/lucid [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490436 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607914 Best regards, -- Jaska aka astraljava I tested and replied. Hope some others can assist as well :) ScottL I also just tested and posted a reply. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Real time for Ubuntu Studio 10.04 amd64
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Oleg Ivanenko oivane...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Ralf! 2010/7/12 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net Thank you, unfortunately 2.6.33-23-realtime amd64 results with 'ACPI: Expecting a [Reference] package element, found type 0' and a login for text mode. FWIW I didn't log in and tested to start x or gdm. Personally I have installed(default Ubunto Studio meta-package linux-rt): linux-image-2.6.31-11-rt Linux kernel image for version 2.6.31 on Ingo Molnar's full real time preemption patch This is one of the kernels that stops booting with the message 'mount: mounting none on /dev failed: No such device.' I have such message too but it is not stops booting and not affects my work. I have no idea what is this exactly :) This message will pop up, and the cursor will blink for some time, but the computer should start up if you wait long enough. At least, this is how my computer works with the current -rt kernel. I don't know what the actual message means, though. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Ubuntu Studio Art
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.auwrote: I have not yet seen any artwork? Did I miss something? https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel I think some of these threads are getting mixed up between the users and dev list. . . Anyway, I believe he's referring to these images I posted in response to his suggestion for Made with Ubuntu Studio buttons: http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/made_with_ubuntu_studio_fancy.png http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/made_with_ubuntu_studio_simple.png http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/made_with_ubuntu_studio_gray.png http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/made_with_ubuntu_studio_reflect.png Thanks for the kinds words. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Website flaw
Okay, this has been bugging me for ages, and I'm bringing it up again now. The word 'logo' appears in the upper-left corner of the Ubuntu Studio website. It drives me crazy, it's ugly and it's unprofessional. It's there because there's an image that references a non-existent file, forcing it to default to the word alt text of 'logo'. The actual image at the head of the page is done as the background of the header div. So either the logo image needs to be removed, or it needs to be hidden. Either solution is ridiculously easy, and it can be done via the code or through whatever CMS the site is built on. Can whoever manages the site please do this? It's been this way for as long as I can remember. I'd be willing to do it myself, but that would require getting access to the website. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Update on gnome-network-admin Bug
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:51 AM, scottalaven...@gmail.com wrote: I have posted a small update on my blog about the gnome-network-admin bug. http://dullass.blogspot.com/ ScottL P.S. Sign up for RSS for further updates about Ubuntu Studio development -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users If you do decide to go with Network Manager, there should be clear documentation informing users that this can cause major problems with x-runs. Thankfully, it requires only two clicks of the mouse to disable networking via the notification bar applet, which will neutralize the problem. Of course, this doesn't matter if you don't know about it. By the way, does anyone know why it is that Network Manager messes with sound so much? On my set-up, I get an x-run every few seconds unless Network Manager is disabled. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Ubuntu Studio artwork proposal
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:43 PM, C K coryis...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying to stay away from putting my 2 cents so things can just develop. I gotta say a little bit now. ;) I can most likely get the letters to make our logo text from the guys @ Canonical. The font is still under development. *If* it is decided that the new font is used for our text as well, I believe our COF will need a more angular revamp to fit this new type style. The effort around the Made with Ubuntu idea is cool, but I wanna say it would be nice to see someone step up and revamp the studio art. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel Here's a another one, with reflections, since people seem to like those: http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/made_with_ubuntu_studio_reflect.png Good to hear from you again, Cory. I would love to revamp the studio artwork. Do you have any links to some documentation on creating a theme, particularly with Plymouth? I can Google it, and probably will, but it might save me some time if you point me in the right direction. It would be awesome to get a hold of the current Lucid font, because I think it looks good. I'd disagree with changing the COF to fit the font, though. I'm fond of the Ubuntu Studio COF. Of course, if people prefer that it'd be changed, then so be it. I'm new to this type of thing, so how would be the best way to go about it? Should I start by submitting some sketches/mock-ups and see if the community approves? -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio Project Lead
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Jose H. jose...@gmail.com wrote: I have the crazy idea that Ubuntu Studio should be user oriented. If that was the case, ubuntu studio needs to solve two really big issues: 1) complexity: PA vs Jack = ubuntu studio vs the user, Windows and Mac will win 2) stability: jacks crashes, timidity crashes, etc. Shouldn't JACK+Timidity start with init.d and be stable, working without issues with PA ? My Two cents. I'm going to play devil's advocate here, and suggest that Ubuntu Studio should not be user oriented. At least, not in the sense that a main priority would be to make things as simple as possible. It seems to me that a lot of problems have resulted from the active marketing of Ubuntu Studio as easy to use. At this point, I've accepted that Linux audio is never going to be easy. I've also accepted that this is a good thing, because the payoff is that the software is of higher quality and greater versatility. My suggestion is that Ubuntu Studio should brand itself as a serious audio production system, one the provides the highest quality tools out there, but that requires patience and experience to utilize. Not the easiest sell, but I'd say closer to reality. Having said that, I think there are a few things that could be done to make Ubuntu Studio more user friendly. The most obvious would be to make sure that the user is automatically put in the 'audio' and 'video' groups, and that firewire access is available out of the box without needing to mess with Ubuntu Studio Controls. This should allow JACK to start right away for most users. However, above all else, what Ubuntu Studio needs is much much much better documentation and tutorials. On a final note, a long running issue for me is how often a quality rt kernel is left out of the releases. On my system, at least, the RT kernel is the only one that gives good enough performance. The vanilla and preempt kernels produce far too many x-runs. I seem to have no problems with the 2.6.31 RT kernel, but it would be awfully nice to have a 32 version. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: What's wrong with jack ?
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Jose H. jose...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Jack is used for everything, it just seems to be the standard for anything related to audio in linux, BUT it doesn't work out of the box in Ubuntu Studio, which for me seems like a huge contradiction, you have everything that works with jack, but jack doesn't work :S Am I supposed to *rm /usr/bin/pulseaudio* to make jack work ?, or it is just that Ubuntu Studio is not ready to be used for music production in a real sense ? = it is just for testing and experimenting Thanks. Jack is like a lot of other things in Linux: for better or worse, the quality and versatility of the software is the top priority, and an easy user experience is often not a main consideration. For this reason, there's a fairly steep learning curve for using audio in Ubuntu, but it is worth it. Having used Ubuntu for audio work for about a year and half now, I can comfortably say that, with a well set up system, Linux will out perform any other OS when it comes to audio. That being said, when it comes to getting Jack started, in most cases it involves simply adding yourself to the 'audio' group (as someone else has already mentioned). If you're using a firewire device, you will also want to use Ubuntu Studio Controls (under System Administration) to get the right permissions by selecting the raw1394 option. Also, if you're using a version of Ubuntu that is running Network Manager, it is probably a good idea to disable networking while using Jack. That should get you started. Of course, there' s a lot of other stuff to learn, and that takes time. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Ubuntu Studio Control
I have a quick question. What is it that Ubuntu Studio Controls is doing when you select the 'raw1394' option? Previously it would edit the 50-udev-default.rules file, but it doesn't seem to be doing that now. Or, at least, not in the way that it did before. Still, it seems to be dong something that is necessary to get firewire support, and I'm curious what. Also, a lot of you may or not be aware of this, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. Ubuntu Studio Controls is now editing the wrong .conf file. It currently edits limits.conf, when it should be editing the audio.conf file jackd creates when it is installed. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: linuxrt package not standard in studio ?
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@ubuntu.comwrote: Hi Laurent, 2010/5/11 laurent.bellegarde laurent.bellega...@free.fr: [...] I would suggest to you (and to all others readers in this ml) to install and use linux-rt only if it is _really_ required. Are there issues with the RT kernel in Lucid? And if so, what are they? -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: UbuntuStudio controls redesign
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Fritz Meissner meissner.fr...@gmail.comwrote: On 30 March 2010 06:17, Brian David beej...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Fritz Meissner meissner.fr...@gmail.com wrote: Secondly, I have recently seen rather exasperated comments (from someone that I respect as an authority) that the mystique surrounding nice settings is misplaced and that it has virtually nothing to do with audio performance. If this is the case, then should that setting not be removed from the Controls ? I'd be interested to hear these comments, because from my understanding, niceness has a lot to do with audio performance. Or, more generally, it has a lot to with the performance of any process. By setting the niceness of programs run by users in the Audio group to -19, you are letting the kernel know that those programs take precedence over most others when deciding how to allocate CPU resources. How would this not help performance? If this is misguided, then it would definitely be good to know. -- -Brian David Brian, The comments I was remembering are in the following two posts on the Linux Audio User mailing list : http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2009-November/064820.html http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2009-November/064828.html I don't have the expertise to evaluate them, but there are enough knowledgeable people on LAU that I would have expected the comments to be shot down if they were out of line (they weren't). I noticed in those posts that they regard rtprio as the critical setting - should this be included in Studio Controls ? Fritz -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel Hard to argue with Paul Davis. :) Okay, so it's good to hear that Studio Control should eventually be able to configure the rtprio settings. Something that I am always needing to do on my Ubuntu Studio systems is manually setting the priorities of certain real-time threads (as described on this page: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto, down at the Thread Priorities section. Coincidentally one of the many pages that suggests adjusting the nice settings). Without doing this, I get an unusable amount of x-runs with the rt-kernel, and it works wonderfully after they are set. Can Ubuntu Studio Controls be made to set these thread priorities? That would be lovely. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: not sure where to ask this question, about the audio production possibilities...
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:11 PM, G L Romeu rom...@comcast.net wrote: I have been on the graphics end of computers, everything from photo through layout to 3d for cad/cam, and therefore my initial interest in studio. *SNIP* Does anyone have some programs that i should concentrate on to start with, and any other advice? There seems to be so much availablethanks, gabriel -- G L Romeu ø http://studiofurniture.com ø http://lessplusmore.com ø http://journalphoto.org -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users For someone working with audio, you will want to make sure you understand how to start the JACK audio server. Oddly enough, for software that is the heart of professional audio in Linux, there is surprisingly little documentation on this software. Here is about as good a guide as there is on using JACK: http://en.flossmanuals.net/Ardour/StartJackUbuntu That is a chapter in a manual on using Ardour, which is the other application that you WILL want to know if you really want to get the most out of your Ubuntu Studio install. The link to the full manual is: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ardour/ Many people will recommend Audacity, particularly for beginners. But trust me, if you plan on getting into Ubuntu Studio and Linux audio for the long haul, Ardour is the program you'll want to use. Speaking of Ardour, I noticed there's a good change they won't reach their fundraising goals over at Ardour.org this month. So, as a reminder to all you audio enthusiasts: If you're on this list and you use Ardour regularly and you're not a subscriber, you should seriously consider supporting the program financially. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: not sure where to ask this question, about the audio production possibilities...
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:45 PM, mac sue...@empire.net wrote: Hi from the Ardour web page: Non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo What you describe above is indeed modifying the recording, I don't believe it is considered destructive editing. Audacity will allow the wave form to be edited on a per sample basis, actually changing the value of the sample at will. I believe this is considered destructive editing. I would be happy to be wrong, but I don't think Ardour allows such detailed editing of the raw data. Regards, Mac -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users I must admit, Mac, I find myself confused by your statements. Why would you want destructive editing? We should make sure our definitions are the same. By destructive editing, I refer to the act of editing an audio file in a program, and then those changes are immediately applied to the original audio file, therefore making the changes permanent (i.e. cannot be undone). It is common practice to avoid destructive editing like the plague, as you usually want to retain the integrity the original file just in case you'd like to go back and do things differently. If you want a new file that reflects the changes you have made, then you use the program's 'Export' feature. Editing on a per sample basis, as you put it, is not necessarily destructive, and it is also something that I believe Ardour can do. I rarely have need to do such a thing, and as such I cannot be certain if Ardour does that as well as Audacity. -- -Brian David -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
