[ubuntu-studio-users] FTP Download

[Petersen, Mark]

Hi All,
I'm looking for a FAST FTP server to download the latest image from. Every ftp 
mirror of "studio" I've found is either just plain slow (most appear to be 
throttled down to 265k. Arrgh...), or they burst, then die. Can anyone shoot me 
the url for a server they've verified will transfer at 2meg+?
Thanks!

Mark Petersen
Technical Director
Theater At Mountainview
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Re: Configuration Files

[Mark Burge]

On 01/09/2012 09:28 PM, Brian David wrote:

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.

I just did the same thing (on mint 12) and checked the audio.conf file
It looks like this


# Provided by the jackd package.
#
# Changes to this file will be preserved.
#
# If you want to enable/disable realtime permissions, run
#
#dpkg-reconfigure -p high jackd

@audio   -  rtprio 95
@audio   -  memlockunlimited
#@audio   -  nice  -19


But I think I remember running the ubuntustudio controls after 
installing the meta package.



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Re: Making Music with FOSS

[mark]

Hi all,

On 23/04/11 21:16, Seattle Chaz wrote:

Last week, opensource.com hosted a web-cast, Making Music with FOSS.  I
missed it, but I was confident that the media would be archived, which
is indeed the case.  However, the media file is in the proprietary .arf
format from WebEx.  Though I searched extensively, I was unable to
locate a method for converting the file to a more usable form.

Of course, I COULD just view the materials on-line, but where's the fun
in that?  The download-able media player supports only Windows and Mac.
I was about to hold my nose and install the player when I was inspired
to attempt a Wine installation.  I downloaded the WebEx .arf Player, set
the executable permission on the .msi file and booted it under Wine.
Wine happily took it and installed it and the downloaded media played
without a hiccup.

Web-cast:
http://opensource.com/business/11/4/today-making-music-foss-webcast-2-pm-est

Webcast Playback:
https://jboss.webex.com/ec0605lc/eventcenter/recording/recordAction.do?theAction=poprecord&actname=%2Feventcenter%2Fframe%2Fg.do&apiname=lsr.php&renewticket=0&renewticket=0&actappname=ec0605lc&entappname=url0107lc&needFilter=false&&isurlact=true&entactname=%2FnbrRecordingURL.do&rID=38196012&rKey=c2223d52c482e824&recordID=38196012&rnd=8047439081&siteurl=jboss&SP=EC&AT=pb&format=short

WebEx Player: http://www.webex.com/play-webex-recording.html


I'd like to watch the webcast too.

But hang on a second folks, we're free software advocates, aren't we? So 
why are we trying to find work-arounds, when the problem is that a 
webcast about free software should have been published in a free format?


Surely it would make more sense for us, as a group, to say to the 
publisher something like, "This is no good, please can you find a way of 
publishing that meets the needs of your target audience, as this clearly 
doesn't."


Would anyone care to join me in this?

Mark

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Re: help, jackd crashing, don't know why

[mark]

On 10/04/11 10:50, Ralf wrote:

PA needs to be turned of by default.


+1

Mark

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Re: Fwd: New Music Controllers Workshop at CCRMA July 11-15

[mark]

Thanks Edgar

On 03/04/11 21:39, Edgar Berdahl wrote:

Dear all,

I'd like to invite you to attend the New Music Controllers workshop this summer
at Stanford University. This year, we are introducing a new platform for
prototyping DIY new media projects. It uses the Beagle Board and Arduino!

Looking forward,
Edgar Berdahl


This sounds awesome, but I'm in England and can't travel that far. Does 
anyone know of any similar opportunities in Europe?


Thanks in advance,
Mark

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Re: Nightly testing PPA

[mark]

On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 06:30 -0500, Kenneth Koym wrote:
> Maybe I am alone in not knowing at all how to proceed. 

No, I could use some guidance too. Is this for testing or production?

Mark


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Kernel flavours [was: Re: Ubuntu Studio Project Lead]

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Hello Alessio and everyone

>>> Could you evaluate and compare those results with -lowlatency kernel
>>> available on https://launchpad.net/~abogani/+archive/ppa/+packages,
>>> please?

I had a look at the page specified above, and I saw -lowlatency packages
for maveric only. There are -rt packages for lucid.

Where can I find the -lowlatency and -preempt binaries for lucid?

Thanks in advance,
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I am able to upgrade online.

[Bwala Madu Mark]

I have upgraded my ubuntu-studio to 10.04 studio on line.

I wish to thank the ubuntu org and community for making the use of these OS
easy to have.

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Re: [LAU] M-Audio Audiophile 2496 on modern Ubuntu

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Hi Teza and everyone

On 07/04/10 14:38, teza wrote:
> By the way I relly
> would like to know what is the purpose of Pulse Audio

I've been sniffing around for answers to this question for the last year
or so. The things people tell me are:

[1] gnome depends on pulse, so we have to have it (which begs the
question, why do we need gnome?)

[2] the ubuntu hierarchy insist we use pulse (which begs the question,
wouldn't we be better off working under debian?)

I think it's a bit of a joke to have an audio-focussed distro in which
the first things I have to do post-install are disable some of the
default features and manually edit settings.

Mark
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Re: rock.out.2.0.0.6 has invited you to Spokeo

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Hi Roy

On 10/03/10 17:18, Roy Damen wrote:
> Someone has to tell that this can't be right

Seconded.

> No matter how fun it may seem. I thought UbuntuStudio-users where wiser..

I thought we were wise enough not to send HTML emails :-P

Mark
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Re: U-Stu Karmic can't find CD/DVD drive

[mark]

Hi Paul,

On 06/02/10 06:25, Paul DeShaw wrote:
> Hi,
> I got a message saying that report is too long to post to the list; can
> you give me something specific I can exerpt for you?
> 
> --Paul

If you send the report to me off-list, I'll see what I can do. If
there's anything that other people might learn from, I'll just post the
important parts back to the list, OK?

Mark



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Re: U-Stu Karmic can't find CD/DVD drive

[mark]

On 04/02/10 05:39, Paul DeShaw wrote:
> I can post the entire report if you'd like, but I
> prefer not to post something so long. Is there anything specific I
> should look for to pull out?

OK, try this first: lsmod |grep ata_piix

If that gives you no output, that'll tell you if you've not got the
right module (driver) loaded.

Mark



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Re: U-Stu Karmic can't find CD/DVD drive

[mark]

Hello Paul

I can't promise anything, but I might be able to help. I had a similar
problem once, caused by a system not loading the ata_piix module.

Please can you give us some more info by doing this in a terminal:

sudo su   (type your password)
lshw >report
lspci >>report
lsusb >>report(only if your CD drive is on a USB connection)
lsmod >>report
exit  (gets you out of super-user mode: important!)

You should now have a file called "report" in your home directory. Have
a quick look at it using "less report" to check that I'm not using Jedi
mind-tricks to make you divulge any sensitive personal information...
then reply to this email with the report attached.

Cheers,
Mark


On 03/02/10 04:11, Paul DeShaw wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I finally upgraded from Hardy about a month or two ago.  I now have a
> multimedia content creation system that cannot read or write optical
> media.  I consider this sub-optimal.
> 
> When I go to Places>cdrom0, a window pops up that says:
> 
> *Unable to mount cdrom0
> 
> *mount: special device dev/scd0 does not exist
> 
> The drive is an HP dvd840. I can boot live cd's from the device, I used
> it to upgrade to Karmic.  It worked fine in Hardy.
> 
> In my Googling, I came across the same error back in Intrepid--in
> Launchpad, the bug was closed due to inactivity without being resolved. 
> I also noted the exact same error being reported for Karmic on the
> Ubuntu forums; the original poster gave up, but someone then wrote in
> that he replaced his IDE optical drive with a SATA one, which then
> worked.  I think it would be better if people could use what they have,
> either IDE or SATA.  I am willing to file a bug, but first I wanted to
> see if anyone here has a solution.
> 
> What other information do you need to find out what's going on?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> *
> *
> 




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Re: Music

[mark]

Nice organ patch too. What did you use for the backing?

Mark

On 31/01/10 22:01, Neil Jensen wrote:
> Well, I don't know what all those things are you listed but that was
> very nice.  Well done.  
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 22:50 +0100, teza wrote: 
>> Hi all a quick blues made with  traverso  rakarrack  calf  compression  
>> audacity  fender  strat  squier  on  eeepc  1OO5HA  under  Ubuntu  
>> Studio  9.10
>> Listen  here:  http://www.docmorzy.info/lucidlynx/teza-eeepc-blues.ogg
>> Regards
>> Teza
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 




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Re: Reorganise main menus after migrating from Ubuntu?

[Mark Burge]

On 1/2/2010 2:22 PM, J. Simon van der Walt wrote:
> Hi there, kind of n00b around here...
>
> I've installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my msi wind clone, and used the instructions
> on this page to migrate to ubuntustudio;
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ubuntu%20Studio%20Upgrade%20from%20Ubuntu
>
> Mostly this has gone well. However, one of the reasons I wanted to use
> studio rather than vanilla was for the very plain bare bones ui. I think I
> can probably figure out how to reconfigure the panels and get rid of the
> bottom one, but I'm stumped on the menus. How would I get rid of ubuntu's
> 'Applications', Places and System and use the single no-name menu which
> studio uses? So that I have space to put open window tabs at the top instead
> of the bottom like studio does it?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>

You can remove the entire menu from the panel by right-clicking on the 
menu and 'remove from panel' then right click on the panel and 'add to 
panel' and scroll down to 'Main Menu' if you want to put in the single 
column menu as per ubuntu default


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Re: M-Audio 88es midi controller keyboard & ubuntu 64 studio

[mark]

Quoting "Neil Jensen" :

> Hi Tommy,
> I was uncertain about the M-
> Audio 88es because it had been left off of the list along with the
> M-Audio 66es and M-Audio 88 pro for working without proprietary drivers,
> but have read about at least one person who is using it successfully.

I'm using the Keystation 88 Pro and it worked out of the box with  
ubuntustudio. It presents two MIDI sources to JACK; 0 is from the  
controller itself and 1 is from the MIDI IN socket on the back. You  
can also switch the MIDI OUT on the back between being a JACK sink or  
the output from the controller. In other words, you can chain your  
MIDI gear up to it without needing a dedicated MIDI controller. The  
whole device is bus powered.

The only problem I've found is that for my heavy hands on the fairly  
light keys, the velocity sensitivity curves are all a bit too brash.

Mark

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Re: Formatted wrong drive: recovery possible?

[Mark Stuart Burge]

On 26/12/09 14:31, Paul DeShaw wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> While attempting to make a bootable USB drive, I accidently formatted 
> the hard drive with all my recorded work on it.  Is it lost forever?  
> Are there people who can recover data in such a case?
I would start by running testdisk on that drive to see if it sees any 
partitions.

There are quite a few forensic tools and data recovery tools available 
for linux, but you do have to be careful how you proceed.

It should just be a case of letting testdisk find the partition and then 
using it to rebuild the table and voila! you have your files back again.

Perhaps someone else out there knows of a better method though.

In any case, if you can, to a 'dd' to a spare drive if you have one, so 
a mistake won't be critical.

Good luck

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"Introduction to Ardour" FLOSS Manual now online

[mark]

This press release describes a resource of interest to those of us
getting to grips with Ardour:


Wednesday 09 December 2009

"Introduction to Ardour" FLOSS Manual now online

http://en.flossmanuals.net/ardour/

Ardour is a full-featured, free and open-source hard disk recorder and
digital audio workstation program suitable for professional use. It
features unlimited audio tracks and buses, non-destructive, non-linear
editing with unlimited undo, and anything-to-anywhere signal routing. It
supports standard file formats, such as BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF and CAF,
and it can use LADSPA, LV2, VST and AudioUnit plugin formats.

The "Introduction to Ardour" FLOSS Manual is a free (gratis/libre)
tutorial-style book, which introduces the program without expecting a
vast knowledge of computers or sound editing from the reader. This FLOSS
Manual was largely written by workshop participants learning the
software themselves, over a one week period during a session led by
Derek Holzer at the moddr_lab/WORM in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

This FLOSS Manual can be read online at:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/ardour/

Non-profit, print-on-demand paper copies can be ordered from Lulu.com
soon. Please check back with the main FLOSS Manuals page in several days
for ordering information:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/

The manual is free to use, distribute and remix according to the GNU
General Public License. FLOSS Manuals volunteers are currently working
on French and Portuguese translations, and anyone is free to add
contributions and edits for future versions of the manual at
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Ardour/WebHome

Thanks to Adam Hyde, Walter Langelaar, the workshop participants in
Rotterdam as well as those who helped online from the FLOSS Manuals,
Ardour and Linux Audio communities, and to all the folks at the
moddr_lab and WORM!



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Re: Ubuntu Studio can not detect wireless

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> I also had trouble with wireless when I installed Ubuntu Studio 9.10.  It 
> seemed like the normal "Network Manager" that had worked fine on plain Ubuntu 
> 9.04 just wasn't working correctly for me.

Network manager isn't installed by default in UbuntuStudio 9.10,
although they are on the DVD. What you need to do after installation is
install gnome-network-manager, then it should be fine.

See this thread:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/2009-October/005476.html

Mark




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Re: digital crossover and equalizer hifi setup

[mark]

Hi

Heiko Kokemoor wrote:
>  2-way crossover and equalizer
>
> Could this job be done with Ubuntu Studio in a, hm, easy way?

Have a look at the Calf plugins for Jack. Routing is easy (using
qjackctl) and the filters are well-organised, with a nice graphical
interface.

You will need hardware with two stereo DAC outputs if you want to
implement this, and jack needs to be configured to see them.

Good luck,
Mark



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Re: looking for virtual instruments and midi-sequencer

[Mark Burge]

On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:47:23 -0500, mentoj_d...@gmx.de  
 wrote:

> thanks for the quick answers,
>
> Zynaddsubfx: i allready knew this programm. its nice. but i think not
> the right thing for my friend. there are a lot of "freaky" sounds in it,
> but a realy good piano sound is not there. am i wrong? at all, its a
> synth. i think a sample-player would be better.

You are right about that. It is great for getting some instant sounds out  
of the box though.

>
> the wavetable-thing: puh... i dont know how to do this. and i cant try
> it out on her computer, because she lives in another city. her boyfriend
> is also a linux-dude (he will install the system), but he has not much
> to do with music-production.

I believe if you could get rosegarden working, you can set an option to  
automatically load a sound font into a soundblaster type sound card when  
it starts.

Not such a 'standard' way of doing things and very hardware dependent.


>
> qsynth: thats a good idea. i dont think, she want to spend money at the
> beginning. but i already found some soundfonts on the web. seems to work
> well.
>

Sounds like a winner then!

> sec24: where is the record button?

The following are two very good howtos for using seq24.
The first link actually takes you through the steps of realtime midi  
recording using seq24
The second link takes you through assembling a multi-track composition.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8304

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToSeq24Introduction


>
> what is with muse? i tried to record some midi-signals, but the
> sequencer just ignored it. (yes i found the record butten, and yes i
> connected the midi output with the muse input)

You might want to look at the midi channel numbers to make sure the  
channel on the keyboard matches the channel on the track you are recording.

>
> outher thing: if i connect (with qjackctl) my midi-keyboard with a
> writable device called "1:TiMidiy port 1", then i can play without any
> other programm. but its very laggy. can someone explain me this?
>
>

TiMidity is a software synth as far as I understand. (a very old one in  
linux years!)

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Re: looking for virtual instruments and midi-sequencer

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Here's an interesting article featuring seq24 and zynaddsubfx

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8304



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Re: looking for virtual instruments and midi-sequencer

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Quoting mentoj_d...@gmx.de:

> Hi community,
> 
> A friend of mine asked me for help with her audio-pc.  Its a very strong
> machine with a big midi-keyboard. windows was not her thing (to laggy...).
> Ubuntu studio was my tip. She just want to switch on the computer, choose an
> instrument and record the music in 2 or 3 channels.
> 
> Well, i'm able to help with ardour and jack, but i have no idea about virtual
> instruments (its because i produce with hardware and just need a pc for
> recording).  and i cant find an easy to use programm with a good piano-sound.
> can somebody help me with this?

Try zynaddsubfx - quick and easy with some great sounding instruments.

Or,

If she has a soundblaster card or another 'wavetable' sound card, it is possible
to load a sound font into the card and use the hardware to run the synth as a
midi instrument.

You can also load a sound font into qsynth to use it as a software synth if you
don't have a wavetable card.

Using sound fonts can get you some nice sounding pianos.




> 
> second question: which app is good to record midi-signals? i think rosegarden
> is to heavy.
> 

seq24 is very light, although I still prefer rosegarden



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Re: Recording with M-Audio Delta 66

[Mark Stuart Burge]

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:02:48 +0200
Michael Neumeier  wrote:
> Ardour? I know that I have to use Jack and this is running, but to
> tell the truth: I cannot really see the point in how to connect the
> signal to a track in Ardour. I created a track in Ardour called
> "Bass", but no matter what I connected, I could not even get a in
> signal in the mixer of Ardour - so the next steps would be:
> 
> 1. Get the signal into the "Bass" track of Ardour
> 2. Connect the Outputs of the "Bass" track of Ardour to the Output 1  
> of the Break-Out-Box.
> 


You want to open qjackctl and click on 'connections'

Then you need to make sure you have the following (select one from the
left and one from the right and then 'connect' or 'disconnect' to get
it right)

Delta66 Input 2 (check name)  Ardour Track1 In (Bass)
Ardour Track1 Out (Bass)   Aurdour Master In
Ardour Master Out - Delta66 Output1


You could as you stated connect the output of the track straight to the
sound card output, but if you end up multi-tracking then you will
benefit from having a mixed output you can control from ardour's mixer
and automation.



Also,

If you have multiple sound cards active in your setup, make sure that
jack is using the correct sound cards for its inputs and outputs.


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Re: Ardour

[mark]

Quoting teza :

> Hi everybody, I've got a question. How can you ear the ffets you put on
> a track while recording? Because vhenI some effect on my guitar I can
> ear them while playing, which is not easy.
> Thanks for your help
> regards
> Teza
> 

Depends on how you route your effects.

One method I use is to send the outputs of my jack rack both to the ardour track
as well as my sound card output (monitor send) (using qjackctl connections)

You can also allow ardour to monitor the track as it records if I remember
correctly. 



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Re: Sequencer to control MIDI drum machine?

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Scott wrote:
> Can anyone suggest which sequencer I should use to control my Alesis SR-16 
> drum 
> machine?  It's plugged into the MIDI IN/OUT of my Echoaudio Audiofire-12.  
> I've been 
> trying to get Muse to work but its documentation is incomplete with regard to 
> controlling external devices.  I think my confusion lays with how to 
> configure the 
> patch in qjackctl.
>
> Essentially I just want a piano-roll type interface to program drum patterns 
> to use as 
> scratch tracks when I'm recording guitar/bass solo.  Hydrogen is appealing 
> but it 
> crashes whenever I try to configure it for use with Jack.
>
> My MIDI tab in jack patch shows SYSTEM:
>   MC12_dev0_Unknown11 -> MP12_dev0_Unknown11
>
> The ALSA tab in jack patch shows 14:Midi Through:
>   0:Midi Through Port-0 -> 0:Midi Through Port-0
>
> When I start Muse, the ALSA tab includes 129:MusE Sequencer:
>   0:MusE Port 0 -> 0:MusE Port 0
>
> Unfortunately I'm not as versed in the syntax and terminology of MIDI as I am 
> in 
> general audio recording so I'm not sure what everything is referring to.  I 
> have a 
> USB-MIDI adapter handy if using the AF12 is unsupported.  TIA!
>
> -Scott
>
>   

Hi Scott,

Try SEQ24,

It has a very simple and lightweight layout and will give you the piano 
roll interface you are looking for.

Check out:   http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8304

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Re: JACK's behavior revealed another problem

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Tomas Valusek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thank you for your help with JACK. I have cought very basic grip of it,
> and stumbled upon another problem. I'm using proprietary ATI drivers,
> since with them work cltr-alt-grayplus and ctrl-alt-greyminus to change
> screen resolution while maintaining a desktop size, thus providing mi
> with very useful, although very basic, magnifier. But now when system
> starts, sound devices are given their system names randomly - sometimes
> is hw:0 assigned to SB Audigy and hw:2 to HDA ATI HDMI, sometimes is
> HW:0 ATI and hw:2 Audigy. I have not recognized the way hw:* devices are
> assigned, but when JACK stumbles upon ATI, it refuses to start. So every
> time I see JACK's error message, I have to enter setup window and
> re-select input and output devices.
>
> And BTW, latency displayed by the Setup dialog is 46.4 msec :(
>
> Tomas Valusek
>
> PS: Here is my current contents of .jackdrc file:
>
> /usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -r44100 -p1024 -n2 -D -Chw:0 -Phw:0
>
>
>   

An alternative to try if that doesn't work for you is:

sudo asoundconf list

  You might see something like this :

Names of available sound cards:
Audigy
ATI-Sound-Card

To set the audigy as the default card (replace audigy with the exact
name of the audigy card as it appears in the list:

sudo asoundconf set-default-card Audigy

followed by a reboot to test.


That is a  solution found here, thanks to Rocklobsta:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/how-do-you-change-the-default-sound-card-in-kubuntu-499520/




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Re: good sound card for beginners

[Mark Stuart Burge]

The soundblaster live and live value cards work very well with linux and 
can operate at pretty low latency.


They don't need any manual configuration (apart from maybe choosing 
which channels you want displayed in your mixer)

A nice advantage with those is the ability to load soundfonts into the 
wavetable, so you don't need to run a software synth to do basic midi 
work. (obviously the quality is not professional, but it is good enough 
for composing and learning) - In fact, back in the day it was good 
enough to produce  a backing track for live performance.

Approx price on ebay would be around $10


Christopher Stamper wrote:
> What does everyone think about just using a regular pci sound card?
>
> I have a average, SoundBlaster PCI512 that Ive been using. What's the 
> downside, and how is that card any better? Besides the obvious 5.1... 

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Re: Pencil 2D

[Mark Stuart Burge]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mark Stuart Burge wrote:

  
  
Go here
  
  http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/message.php?la=en
  
his web based mailer
  
Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
  
"Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Patrick Corrieri & Pascal Naidon"

But no email :(

Luis

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Luis de Bethencourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  

  Cool animations. We got to get this app in the repos. No email in the
 copyright in the source code? Let me check.

 Luis



 On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Cory K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 > Asmo Koskinen wrote:
 >  > Thank you Luis!
 >  >
 >  > http://luisbg.blogalia.com//historias/56334
 >  >
 >  > Great tool, indeed.
 >  >
 >  > Father, 45 - http://www.arkki.info/howto/Pencil/Kasvi_movie.swf
 >  > Daughter, 9 - http://www.arkki.info/howto/Pencil/Lintu_movie.swf
 >  >
 >  > Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.
 >
 >  If anyone has the the authors email that would be great. We're trying to
 >  get in touch to help him get Pencil into the repo and then Ubuntu Studio.
 >
 >  -Cory K.
 >
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Re: Pencil 2D

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Go here

http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/message.php?la=en

his web based mailer

Luis de Bethencourt wrote:

  "Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Patrick Corrieri & Pascal Naidon"

But no email :(

Luis

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Luis de Bethencourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
  
Cool animations. We got to get this app in the repos. No email in the
 copyright in the source code? Let me check.

 Luis



 On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Cory K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 > Asmo Koskinen wrote:
 >  > Thank you Luis!
 >  >
 >  > http://luisbg.blogalia.com//historias/56334
 >  >
 >  > Great tool, indeed.
 >  >
 >  > Father, 45 - http://www.arkki.info/howto/Pencil/Kasvi_movie.swf
 >  > Daughter, 9 - http://www.arkki.info/howto/Pencil/Lintu_movie.swf
 >  >
 >  > Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.
 >
 >  If anyone has the the authors email that would be great. We're trying to
 >  get in touch to help him get Pencil into the repo and then Ubuntu Studio.
 >
 >  -Cory K.
 >
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Re: Jack and SB-awe soundcard

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Hi Gary,

Were you able to get sound to work before running Jack or installing
ubuntustudio ? 

Gary Ball wrote:
Hi All.
  
  
  Forgive me, But I'm a linux-ly challenged old fart who left the
cushy world of Mac OSX and I am currently trying to set up the sound in
UbuntuStudio.
  Two issues:
  I get a timidity error whenever it updates ...
  
  
  
  Setting up timidity (2.13.2-15ubuntu1) ...
   * Starting timidity                                            
                * Starting TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation...          
                 [fail] 
  invoke-rc.d: initscript timidity, action "start" failed.
  dpkg: error processing timidity (--configure):
   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
ubuntustudio-audio:
   ubuntustudio-audio depends on timidity; however:
    Package timidity is not configured yet.
  dpkg: error processing ubuntustudio-audio (--configure):
   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   timidity
   ubuntustudio-audio
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  
  
  The second issue is when I try to run the JACK controller.
  
  
  
  Creating link /home/gary/.kde/socket-unixOffice.
  10:15:14.387 Startup script terminated with exit status=256.
  10:15:14.387 JACK is starting...
  10:15:14.388 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p64 -n2 -m
  10:15:14.393 JACK was started with PID=12849 (0x3231).
  jackd 0.103.0
  Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
  jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
  under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
  JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
  loading driver ..
  apparent rate = 44100
  creating alsa driver ...
hw:0|hw:0|64|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
  control device hw:0
  configuring for 44100Hz, period = 64 frames, buffer = 2 periods
  
  
  Sorry. The audio interface "hw:0" doesn't support any of the
hardware sample formats that JACK's alsa-driver can use.
  ALSA: cannot configure capture channel
  cannot load driver module alsa
  
  
  no message buffer overruns
  10:15:15.069 JACK was stopped successfully.
  10:15:15.074 Post-shutdown script...
  10:15:15.078 killall jackd
  jackd: no process killed
  10:15:15.390 Post-shutdown script terminated with exit
status=256.
  10:15:16.700 Could not connect to JACK server as client. Please
check the messages window for more info.
  JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
  
  
  Could it be the sound card is too old? If so, can anyone
recommend a linux friendly alternative.
  
  
  UbuntuStudio looks awesome, but I haven't been able to take full
advantage of it yet
  
  
  This is my system hardware. it's old, but so am I.
  
  
  
  00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x
[Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4)
          Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
          Memory at e000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
          Capabilities: 
  
  
  00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo
MVP3/Pro133x AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
          Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
          Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01,
sec-latency=0
          I/O behind bridge: a000-bfff
          Memory behind bridge: dde0-dfef
          Prefetchable memory behind bridge: ddc0-ddcf
          Capabilities: 
  
  
  00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo
Super South] (rev 22)
          Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686/A PCI to ISA
Bridge
          Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
  
  
  00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
(prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
          Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
          [virtual] Memory at 01f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=8]
          [virtual] Memory at 03f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable)
[size=1]
          [virtual] Memory at 0170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=8]
          [virtual] Memory at 0370 (type 3, non-prefetchable)
[size=1]
          I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
          Capabilities: 
  
  
  00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI
USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
          Subsystem: First International Computer, Inc. VA-502
Mainboard
          Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
          I/O ports at dc00 [size=32]
          Capabilities: 
  
  
  00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super
ACPI] (rev 30)
          Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
          Capabilities: 
  
  
  00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102
[Rhine-II] (rev 42)
          Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DFE-530TX rev A
          Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
          I/O ports at d800 [size=2

Re: Ardour vs. Audacity?

[Mark Stuart Burge]

I would definitely recommend ardour if you want to record multi track 
and have any level of control.
Audacity is great for single track recording and chopping the results 
up, filtering etc and then exporting, but when it comes to recording 
multiple parts, lining them up, mixing down, automating fades, pan and 
inserts then ardour makes it all easy.

The learning curve is not that huge if that is all you need to do. It 
just takes a little getting used to.

Ardour I think is heading in the direction of midi compatibility also, 
which will be great if they do get there, as it will save having to 
learn yet another application just for the the times when you need to 
use synths etc.

Also,  ardour is likely to be around for a long time, so it is worth 
your investment (in time and effort as well as hopefully financially to 
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Re: Asus Eee

[Mark Stuart Burge]

PIM
Data recovery or router administration tool (for field service)
In flight entertainment (dvd, games, etc)
International Incident Rescue tool (for Jack Bauer - although he
manages to save the usa with a pda phone at the moment) - Must have a
dark desktop theme.


as for musical - 
remote mixer control for dialing in a mix while on stage
midi sequencer  - using usb to external midi interface
guitar tuner
background music for live pa setups (i don't like ipods)
reserve effects unit
stage lighting control for small bands (using usb to dmx interface)


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm considering getting an Asus
Eee, particularly for any interesting musical applications it may
have. What would you use a hand-sized laptop with a 7" LCD, 900mhz proc
and 512MB RAM for? There are 3 USB inputs, so there are alot of
different directions to go with this...
  
  
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Re: Composition thread

[Mark Stuart Burge]

On Dec 5, 2007 9:56 AM, Jonathan Leonard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This was the first track I finished using Ubuntu Studio:
>
> http://www.jonathanleonard.com/songs/2007/mp3/reapers_wish.mp3

Nice !

It reminds me of the 90's 'grid'

Did you do it all with ubuntustudio or were there any external synths / 
effects ?



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Re: Ubuntu Studio looks for photographic wallpaper ideas/submissions.

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Where do you want us to send stuff ? 

Presumably it would not be a great idea to start sending loads of high 
res photos to the mailing list.



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Re: What do you guys listen to? :)

[Mark Stuart Burge]

I'll go with Demon Hunter too, although I enjoy a bunch of others like ..

John Reuben,
Grits,
Kutless (saw them recently on tour with Newsboys (luv'em!!)
Switchfoot
Toby Mac
RelientK
For a bit of fun ..
family force 5
Pigeon John

and all time top of the list ..
Skillet



Evan Gill wrote:
> My all time favorite, Demon Hunter, The best Christian Heavy Metal Band
> ever, if not all time best heavy metal band ever. Although I like anything
> from classical to classic rock to many other things. Just not RAP crap,
> hip-hop or than new pop stuff they call country. 
>   
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Re: fonts

[Mark Stuart Burge]

That's exactly what I am talking about.


Happy thanksgiving all !

D. Michael McIntyre wrote:

  On Wednesday 21 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  
  
Uhh... Why in the world do you have to remove the fonts? The only time I
even notice that they are there is when browsing foreign language websites,

  
  
I think what he's getting at is when you go into a font picker dialog in some 
application like, say, the GIMP, and the top 40 or so fonts on the list are 
all mysteriously useless things that start with ae_, and all render into one 
of about four different typefaces in Latin-based languages.

This seems to be a standard Ubuntu thing for some reason.  I have no idea why, 
but I suspect whatever this stuff is for, it's not for me anyway.

I'm not trying to change anything.  I'm just trying to help explain what I 
think the other guy is getting on about here.
  




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Re: Automatic launching of programs for removable media/connected devices.

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Me too !


> My vote is that disks/drives are mounted but nothing is done. Let the
> user decide. There are many times I just pop in a disk and I pull up my
> favorite app to work with the disk. I dont need a app popping up to
> handle it by default.
>
> Since our target audience isn't the average desktop user I would think
> they can handle this. :)
>
> -Cory \m/
>
>
>   

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Re: laptops

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Dell 5100 (older blue style - p4 2.4GHz 512MB Ram)

32 bit feisty (haven't upgraded yet)

jackd, rosegarden, ardour, audacity, hydrogen, zynaddsubfx  all working 
well.




Larry Lines wrote:
> What laptops do users on this list have ubuntu studio running
> successfully?  By successful I mean running jackd and rosegarden and
> ardour.  Specify 32 or 64 bit version of ubuntu studio.
>
>   

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Re: how to configure the network in a lab with 8 computers and ubuntustudio

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Some ideas from my unconventional mind ..

(not even sure if these would work)

I would probably end up cloning hard drives to begin with, then ..

Create the same username such as 'student' with the same password

Map the home for that username to an external drive (not sure if latency 
would be an issue - if so then script a dump of the external drive to 
the internal hard drive to temporarily use for home, then on log off, 
script a dump back to the external drive and clear the home ready for 
the next user.)

This way each student gets to keep their work with them and you are not 
using large storage in house.

Fry's amongst others do a cheap external usb enclosure ($9 last time I 
bought one) that is usb bus powered and you can get some low cost 2.5in 
hard drives to put in them (or even used drives)


The student username would not be able to muck around with the 
configuration and if something did go wrong, well, you simply clone out 
the master again or push the necessary files to the workstation.

or

I don't know how to do this, but how about mounting an image on the 
network during the boot process to pull the root directory, then running 
the script mentioned above to pull home from usbdisk.


padovani wrote:
> Hi,
> we are planning to create a ubuntu-studio based lab with 8 computers... 
> I am already a Ubuntu studio user, but had never configured a network 
> like that in ubuntu... Does anyone have a tutorial or something like that?
> We would need to set these machines so that the students could run some 
> programs but not change the config files and such things...
> Any tips are welcome.
> tx,
> J. H. Padovani
>
> PS: It would also be nice to configure all machines without effort 
> (install programs and so on). A local repo would be a good but I am 
> thinking if it would be possible to "clone" all the system changes in 
> one machine to the other 7...
>
>   


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Re: Gutsy panel problems

[Mark Stuart Burge]

I agree with Jussi.

It sounds like in KDE you were set up to restore previous session on log 
in (whether or not you knew it at the time)

So setting gnome up to do the same should sort you out.



Edward Dunagin wrote:
> Hello Rafael,
>
> Thanks for the note.
>
> On 10/25/07, Rafael F. Compte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>>> When I have several Terminals minimized at the
>>> bottom of my panel they disappear upon rebooting. Is there a
>>> 'remember' function in Gutsy?
>>>
>>>   
>> Hi, I think you've got the wrong approach here. The Gnome terminal is just a
>> program that will close down if you log out, not to say shut down. If you
>> REBOOT of course they will disappear, that's expected!
>> 
>
> Why expected? I don't reboot often, but enough so that 'expected'
> operation becomes a real pain for me. Also, I shut down at night for
> green reasons and money too
>
>  I suggest the SUSPEND
>   
>> or HIBERNATE option if you want to keep your terminals open and your
>> settings.
>> By the way. It has nothing to do with the panels. Nothing at all.
>> 
>
> Why if I may, does it have nothing to do with panels? Is setting up
> panels a different  application
>  application in "X"? and not Gnome related??
>
> I used KDE for so long, but when I switched to UbuntuStudio I decided
> to give Gnome a run for the money. Should I be switching back to KDE?
>
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Re: two sound cards, keeping their HW number

[Mark Stuart Burge]

I thing this might be worth a try (pulled from 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/45786)



Locate the module names of your sound cards with:

less /proc/asound/modules

example output:

0 snd_emu10k1
1 snd_ice1712

In /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base replace:

install sound-slot-0 modprobe snd-card-0
install sound-slot-1 modprobe snd-card-1

with:

install sound-slot-0 modprobe snd_ice1712
install sound-slot-1 modprobe snd_emu10k1

or the other way depending on which card you want as the default 
(sound-slot-0)



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Re: two sound cards, keeping their HW number

[Mark Stuart Burge]

I don't know if this is the correct solution, but if you have disabled 
the on board card already, then you could (having installed alsatools) 
try   sudo alsaconf
That should remove the references to the disabled card.  


And there is a how to I used some time back on giving certain cards in a 
two card setup a priority at the alsa level. 
I will look for it and post if  I find it.



>
> > Is there any way to prevent the Ubuntu Studio loading the unwanted
> > kernel modules at startup and / or get the sound cards to preserve 
> their
> > HW numbers in every boot?
> >
>
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Re: no sound with ardour

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Open the mixer for your sound card, make sure the mic channel is 
selected for recording.

Look for any misc 'capture' channels and push them up a little bit 
(careful you might get feedback if it is linked to the playback channels)

Load Ardour
Add a track (mono or stereo doesnt matter)

Go to qjackctl and click on the connections button.

If they are not already linked ...
Link the Pcm capture channels on the left to the Ardour track 1 inputs 
on the right
Link the Ardour Track 1 outputs on the left to the Ardour master inputs 
on the right
Link the Ardour Master outputs on the left to the PCM output (playback) 
channels on the right.

(usually, ardour will automatically do that part)



Click on the pink R button on the track you added in ardour

Then click on the Record button in ardour (at the top) and start talking.





brendon wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:00 +0200, Gert Michaux wrote:
>   
>> Hi Brendon,
>>
>> I'm still learning my way around ubuntu Studio and  Linux audio software 
>> in general, so don't expect me to be allknowing.
>> But, I found a nice tutorial on using ardour (and some helpfull others 
>> about jack and hydrogen) at http://www.ubustu.com/globe/   Just use the 
>> tags on the left to view all the articles for ardour.
>>
>> 
> I got the clicking to work, so that is workning following there demo on
> there but i still can't get my headset mic to work oh well might have to
> gert  a good one
>
>
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Re: newbie help please

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Yes, with varying levels of quality.

Cheap pc mics will give you a very tinny response though.

Try Trademe, they have a lot of mics at good prices, like this sm58 for 
$35 current bid, with cable,

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Music-instruments/PA-sound-reinforcement/auction-120778791.htm

although you would need to convert it to an unbalanced 1/4in or 1/8in 
connection, or get a mixer like ..

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Music-instruments/PA-sound-reinforcement/auction-120775943.htm
 
for $100 up

brendon wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 10:28 +0200, Hartmut Noack wrote:
>   
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> Hello Brendon,
>>
>> 
>
>   
>> just the right attitude :-)
>> To start with what is there is much better then to wait around to get
>> more prerequisites and doing actually nohing ;-)
>> 
> That is so good, what I am wanting to know is what type of mic i need,
> people here have recomended sm57 which by reviews is good but here in NZ
> exoensive $200 without cord. or will almost any dynamic mic work?
>   
>
>   
>
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Re: newbie help please

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Sorry, forgot to answer this one ..
> I know i will need a mic to record using the mic in
> port, so where do i start?
>
>   


If you are not fussy about the quality for now, then...

If your guitar has a pickup, then get a 1/4in to 1/8in adapter for your 
instrument cable and go straight in to the mic input and see what sort 
of levels you get. (Cheap solution)

If it does not have a pickup, then I would suggest borrowing a few mics 
if possible and trying them out with same adapter and see what works, 
before making a purchase. (obviously these would not be condenser mics, 
but something like an sm57 (which should be very easy to find)

The next step up would be to pre-amp the mic with a small mixer before 
going into the mic (or rather at this stage 'line' input which would 
probably be the same input on a laptop)
Using the mixer could improve the gain you can get from your mic and 
also allow for phantom power if you would rather use a condenser mic.  
Getting a good recording starts with having a good source, so this is 
the area you can make the most impact with at this stage.  Spend the 
time trying stuff out before spending your money (if you can)

---

Going on from there, spending a little more money, would be to use a 
firewire or pcmcia based external sound card (but make sure they are 
listed as working well with alsa before you buy)  I am not sure which 
ones out there are better, but start with the alsa compatibility chart 
and compare to the available stores, or ebay.
There are some great interfaces out there with multiple channel pre-amps 
as well as midi i/o for external synths, drum machines etc.



I think some usb sound cards work, but from what I have heard, the 
reliability isn't that great yet.


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Re: newbie help please

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Hi Brendon,

If you want something well documented that works for your situation, 
then I would recommend getting to grips with Rosegarden.

It takes a little getting used to, but is a very capable environment to 
record audio from an external source (your mic) and create multiple 
tracks which can include midi (useful for plotting out some drum beats etc)


However,


If you don't plan to use midi, then a program that is more like the 
industry standard 'pro-tools' is Ardour.  This excellent application is 
great for recording multiple audio tracks and tying them all together.


You will need to spend a little time getting jackd to work (launch 
qjackctl and tweak the settings until you stop accumulating xruns - 
something for another thread) but once you do, then you can route the 
audio from your mic input to each new track you want to work on.


Ardour will sync with hydrogen( the drum sequencer) so it is pretty easy 
to create some nice loops that will fit perfectly. There is a good howto 
I recently read, I will try to find it for you.




If you want simplicity for now and don't want to get involved with 
jackd, then you can get up and running quickly with Audacity, which is 
perfect for single track recording, but a little harder to keep all the 
additional tracks lined up.


Try these out see what feels right for you.

Good luck and 'have fun'

>>> ok guys I am new to doing recording stuff and using these types of
>>> programs, I am in need of some help on a good program to use, and is
>>> easy with some documentation to get me started.
>>>
>>> i am using UbuntuStudio Feisty
>>>   
>
> I play the guitar(accustic) and wanting to record me playing, i will be
> using my compaq presario c554tu laptop,i know not the best but hey got
> to start somewhere to get to know my way around these programs.
>
> what I am after to record me playing and maybe play around with drum
> beats later on , I know i will need a mic to record using the mic in
> port, so where do i start?
>
> pretty new to this but a great interest of mine to write and record my
> own music.
>
>
>   

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convert dv to 'internet video' format

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Hey folks,

Thanks for all the kind remarks previously posted.



I have a question about dv editing if anyone can help ..


What would be the best approach (for a newbie) to edit dv (doesn't have 
to be a bells and whistles editor- just something like ms moviemaker) 
and then convert it to a format suitable for uploading to a site like 
you-tube ?

I had tried cinellera, rendering to 320 with various formats, but each 
time the picture comes out blocky with bright colors, like magenta, green.

There must me something I am doing wrong in the configuration, so I 
thought I would ask you all on the off chance someone has some settings 
that work for them.


My hope is for a generic solution that would work on more than just 
ubuntustudio, so I can pass it on to others, but I am up for anything 
right now.



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Re: choose gutsy's ubuntu studio art

[Mark Stuart Burge]

I was one of the people who didn't like the choice of graphics and 
voiced my opinion when the question was asked.

However, I have since then, realized that it can be really hurtful to 
the person who spent several hours, days or even weeks trying to come up 
with some graphics for us to choose from, that could be given away for 
free for us all to use.

Putting that into context humbles me and I feel so bad for the way I 
originally responded.

So I recommend to anyone else who doesn't like the choice presented on 
this or any future occasion, to reflect on this and remember, that 
without the kind efforts of these few people, there would be no choice, 
and little chance of continued development of ubuntustudio.


Thank you to everyone that has contributed to the success of 
ubuntustudio, and please, don't be dis-heartened by the negative comments.

I wish I had the talent and skills necessary to contribute !!




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Panels was Re: choose gutsy's ubuntu studio art

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Speaking of which, does anyone know how to extend those panels across 
the width of both screens on a dual-head system.  I would like to see if 
it feels more balanced by having the same top and bottom margin on both 
monitors (even though it would consume some real estate)
Dave wrote:
> I hope you are not getting rid of the 2 panels completly. I find them 
> usefull and I could get rid of one if I wanted to. So why change what works?
>
> Dave
>
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Re: choose gutsy's ubuntu studio art

[Mark Stuart Burge]

While we are talking about art,

The boot splash in studio's 'feisty' release was great, except for the 
blurry lights, which didn't keep with the more professional desktop 
theme.  I often have been tempted to try and go through the motions of 
editing out the lights from that boot splash and putting it back in. 
(although the task seems a little daunting to me!)

I don't wish to offend by my comments, and I wish I was able to 
contribute in a more productive way than by criticism.


Thank you for your hard work and continued efforts and for giving us a 
chance to voice our choice.


Hey, could you imagine Mr Gates asking his customers which artwork they 
would prefer ??






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Re: choose gutsy's ubuntu studio art

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> vote for your prefered option...
>
> option flame:
> http://andrew.wedderburn.googlepages.com/flames-ish.png
>   
Makes my eyes go funny

> http://andrew.wedderburn.googlepages.com/flames-ish-s.png
>   

That one does too !
> option lights:
> http://andrew.wedderburn.googlepages.com/ubuntu-ish.png
>   

Not so bad - a little more neutral, but I would still replace it as soon 
as I installed it !

> http://andrew.wedderburn.googlepages.com/screenshot1.png
>
>   

What's with the blurry lights anyway ?


I think these are all great designs in their own right, but I think for 
studio users, it would be better to give them a neutral background (even 
just a color fill)

Personally, I love horizontal lines, like ..



But for studio use, whatever you use, I think should not have a central 
logo like this one, as it doesn't work great on a dual head option.




If I had to make a choice of acid-trip blurry lights, then it would have 
to be option 'lights'






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Re: Perparing for a presentation on Ubuntu Studio

[Mark Stuart Burge]

I have got into the habbit of using rosegarden to import midi.
I recently plugged in hexter as the gm device and saved the studio as 
the default studio, so every time I open rosegarden, it automatically 
loads hexter as the default gm device, so I get my simple piano 
available to bang out a melody from my midi keyboard as soon as it arrives.

With jack, I have saved a patchbay config for each song I work on.
With zynaddsubfx (which is also in my default studio in rosegarden) I 
save a parameters file for each song.
With ardour, session management is handled automatically, so that just 
works nicely.
With JackRack, again, you can load a rack for each song.

As Ardour creates a folder for each session or song, I simple save all 
of these settings files in that folder, so it is easy to migrate.

So when I open a song to continue working on, I just load each config 
file into the multiple programs and I am up and running again.

I guess this is what lash is supposed to do, but I haven't tried it yet.




Tim-Bot wrote:
> i think it would be nice if one of you Linux super geniuses could make 
> a program or something that could snapshot what apps and apps settings 
> and connections thru jack and what songs open and such, then there 
> could be a quick load of the environment. hope that makes sense and 
> that it sparks someones interests that is capable of such funness... 
> because as of yet, i am not B(
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Re: Noob says hello

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Welcome Paul.

What is your sound card / interface ?

Can we assume you are using a digi box ? (which would make sense why you 
are having trouble getting it working)
 From a short amount of reading, it seems like digidesign do not release 
their hardware info for the community to build drivers from, so progress 
is a little slow.

If you know your interface is compatible with alsa, then my second 
question would be ' do you have an additional built in sound card ?'
This is a common issue, where alsa/jack picks up the wrong card as 
default, and you need to either disable the 2nd card, or configure alsa 
and jack to use the correct card each time you boot.


So, I guess, let us know the hardware you are using and we can take it 
from there.


Mark

Paul DeShaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Before annoying you with questions that have been asked before, is there a 
> way to search the archives, other than just scanning them visually?
>
>
>
> I have been fooling around with Linux audio for over a year, and have not 
> been able to produce anything, because I can't get JACK, ALSA, the apps, and 
> the hardware all working together.  I also have a MacBook-based Pro Tools 
> setup, and was hoping to use the same interface for both systems, to save 
> money, which is scarce.
>
>
>
> Pro Tools is so bloated, buggy, and expensive that I would _love_ to abandon 
> it, at least for personal projects.
>
>
>
> FWIW I am also on linux-audio-users, and frequent Ubuntu forums.  I find 
> audio questions are so diffused throughout the Ubuntu forums that it's hard 
> to get your question seen by the person who can answer it.  I was hoping if I 
> got to a place where audio geeks congregate I could get the information I 
> need.
>
>
>
> --Paul in Seattle
>
> ___
> No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.
> Make My Way  your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com
>
>
>
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Re: lowlatency kernel source

[Mark Stuart Burge]

This might be more useful, as the last link sends you off a bit deeper 
to find the actual file ..

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9079486/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-lowlatency_2.6.20-16.31_i386.deb

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but it looks close to 
my untrained eyes.

Eduardo Pellegrini wrote:
> How can I get the kernel-2.6.20-16-lowlatency source package?
> I don't have internet access at the moment on the box running Ubuntu 
> Studio.
>
> At work there are only XP machines, so I can't access the Ubuntu 
> Studio repos.
>
> I tried to find something through google but found nothing but the 
> repos URL.
>
> Is there any way to simply get the package?
>
> -- 
> []s
> Eduardo C. Pellegrini 

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Re: lowlatency kernel source

[Mark Stuart Burge]

or, if that doesn't work ..

* linux-source-2.6.20_2.6.20.orig.tar.gz
  

  (59.3 MiB)
* linux-source-2.6.20_2.6.20-16.31.diff.gz
  

  (1.5 MiB)
* linux-source-2.6.20_2.6.20-16.31.dsc
  

  (2.4 KiB)

But I don't think these are low latency patched.




Eduardo Pellegrini wrote:
> How can I get the kernel-2.6.20-16-lowlatency source package?
> I don't have internet access at the moment on the box running Ubuntu 
> Studio.
>
> At work there are only XP machines, so I can't access the Ubuntu 
> Studio repos.
>
> I tried to find something through google but found nothing but the 
> repos URL.
>
> Is there any way to simply get the package?
>
> -- 
> []s
> Eduardo C. Pellegrini 

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Re: lowlatency kernel source

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Go here ..

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/2.6.20-16.29

Scroll down a bit till you get to the architecture you need. You will 
find a binary kernel (low latency) as well as headers etc.

Eduardo Pellegrini wrote:
> How can I get the kernel-2.6.20-16-lowlatency source package?
> I don't have internet access at the moment on the box running Ubuntu 
> Studio.
>
> At work there are only XP machines, so I can't access the Ubuntu 
> Studio repos.
>
> I tried to find something through google but found nothing but the 
> repos URL.
>
> Is there any way to simply get the package?
>
> -- 
> []s
> Eduardo C. Pellegrini 

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