Re: new Studio user writes
Wow. Thank you gentlemen, Ralf, Abe, Adam, Kaj. Just great. The SB Live card is OK. I can distinguish between it and the onboard Via chipset. And load Soundfonts into it. I will leave Pulse Audio as-is for now. :~$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - SB Live! [CT4620] SB Live! [CT4620] (rev.4, serial:0x211102) at 0xd000, irq 16 1 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237 VIA 8237 with CMI9739 at 0xb800, irq 22 :~$ After I wrote, late that night with some persistence, I set up Qtractor to play MIDI to Qsynth, and saved the Qtractor score as I went. Was so impressed, I tried to get Audacity to record via jack, but didn't quite manage that. So in general I guess we start with Qjackctrl first. Although; Session/Connect/PatchBay, I not sure how I'd save a working complex patch. It seems I am under way, folks. And know I can get back with specific questions if need be. Thank you again. Perhaps one neat trick is to start the applications from the command line, to get used to the Options and also the Error reports. -- 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
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On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 23:43 +1200, adam wrote: :~$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - SB Live! [CT4620] SB Live! [CT4620] (rev.4, serial:0x211102) at 0xd000, irq 16 1 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237 VIA 8237 with CMI9739 at 0xb800, irq 22 To ensure that the EMU card after each startup is the default card hw:0 you can run sudo echo options snd slots=snd_emu10k1 /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf or gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and manually add options snd slots=snd_emu10k1 to the file. Does QjackCtl display xruns or do you get any audible glitches, if you listen to audio when using Jack? You can see xruns, if you push the Messages button of QjackCtl or in the display of QjackCtl, it does show number (number), e.g. 0 (0) when you don't get xruns. What is the output of cat ~/.jackdrc ? Also post the output of service rtirq status Regards, Ralf -- 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: new Studio user writes
To ensure that the EMU card after each startup is the default card hw:0
you can run
sudo echo options snd slots=snd_emu10k1 /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
or
gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
and manually add
options snd slots=snd_emu10k1
to the file.
OK. Yes this sounds a good idea.
Does QjackCtl display xruns or do you get any audible glitches, if you
listen to audio when using Jack? You can see xruns, if you push the
Messages button of QjackCtl or in the display of QjackCtl, it does
show number (number), e.g. 0 (0) when you don't get xruns.
OK. Will check the xruns displays or use the 'Messages' button next time.
No, Audio has been good, no glitches. The low latency kernel is great.
AMD at 1.9 or 2 GHZ, I know I can expect them sooner or later.
What is the output of cat ~/.jackdrc ?
---@---:~$ cat ~/.jackdrc
/usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -dhw:1,0 -r44100 -p1024 -n2
---@---:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - SB Live! [CT4620]
SB Live! [CT4620] (rev.4, serial:0x211102) at 0xd000, irq
16
1 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
VIA 8237 with CMI9739 at 0xb800, irq 22
Also post the output of 'service rtirq status'
:~$ service rtirq status
PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND
46 FF 90 - 130 0.0 Sirq/8-rtc0
756 FF 85 - 125 0.0 Sirq/22-snd_via8
39 FF 80 - 120 0.0 Sirq/21-uhci_hcd
40 FF 79 - 119 0.0 Sirq/21-uhci_hcd
41 FF 78 - 118 0.0 Sirq/21-uhci_hcd
42 FF 77 - 117 0.0 Sirq/21-uhci_hcd
45 FF 75 - 115 0.0 Sirq/1-i8042
44 FF 74 - 114 0.0 Sirq/12-i8042
16 FF 50 - 90 0.0 Sirq/9-acpi
38 FF 50 - 90 0.0 Sirq/21-ehci_hcd
163 FF 50 - 90 0.0 Sirq/14-pata_via
164 FF 50 - 90 0.0 Sirq/15-pata_via
170 FF 50 - 90 0.0 Sirq/20-sata_via
193 FF 50 - 90 0.0 Sirq/6-floppy
206 FF 50 - 90 0.0 Sirq/17-firewire
519 FF 50 - 90 0.0 Sirq/7-parport0
747 FF 50 - 90 0.0 Sirq/16-snd_emu1
759 FF 50 - 90 0.0 Sirq/16-nouveau
896 FF 50 - 90 0.1 Sirq/18-eth0
3 TS - 0 19 0.2 Rksoftirqd/0
:~$
Great. Yes, I am still studying /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
Here it is currently, sorry for the wrapping;
---@---:~$ cat /etc/modprobe.d//alsa-base.conf
# autoloader aliases
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-0
install sound-slot-1 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-1
install sound-slot-2 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-2
install sound-slot-3 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-3
install sound-slot-4 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-4
install sound-slot-5 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-5
install sound-slot-6 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-6
install sound-slot-7 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-7
# Cause optional modules to be loaded above generic modules
install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd $CMDLINE_OPTS
{ /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-ioctl32 ; /sbin/modprobe
--quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq ; }
#
# Workaround at bug #499695 (reverted in Ubuntu see LP #319505)
install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm $CMDLINE_OPTS
{ /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-pcm-oss ; : ; }
install snd-mixer /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-mixer
$CMDLINE_OPTS { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist
snd-mixer-oss ; : ; }
install snd-seq /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-seq $CMDLINE_OPTS
{ /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-midi ; /sbin/modprobe
--quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-oss ; : ; }
#
install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi
$CMDLINE_OPTS { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist
snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
# Cause optional modules to be loaded above sound card driver modules
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1
$CMDLINE_OPTS { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist
snd-emu10k1-synth ; }
install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx
$CMDLINE_OPTS { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq ; }
# Load saa7134-alsa instead of saa7134 (which gets dragged in by it
anyway)
install saa7134 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install saa7134 $CMDLINE_OPTS
{ /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist saa7134-alsa ; : ; }
# Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0
options bt87x index=-2
options cx88_alsa index=-2
options saa7134-alsa index=-2
options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
options snd-intel8x0m index=-2
options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
options snd-usb-audio index=-2
options snd-usb-caiaq index=-2
options snd-usb-ua101 index=-2
options snd-usb-us122l index=-2
options snd-usb-usx2y index=-2
# Ubuntu #62691, enable MPU for snd-cmipci
options snd-cmipci mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388
# Keep snd-pcsp from being loaded as first soundcard
options snd-pcsp index=-2
# Keep snd-usb-audio
Re: new Studio user writes
Hi, there are some information gathered and linked on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/HowTos and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/Resources . You could also log on to the IRC channel #ubuntustudio to ask questions. http://wiki.linuxaudio.org is also a good resource. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:35 AM, adam ah...@orcon.net.nz wrote: Newly installed 12.04 Studio. And Xfce seems nice. I am interested in Audio, primarily. So, with the U Forums down, where should I start? There are many apps from the Audio Production menu, but I guess mastering patching jack is step 1 ? Do I still need pasuspend? Is there a Studio Tutorial on setting up jack ? Perhaps the jack site for Command line Alt-F2, or perhaps the Qjackctl site ? A Tutorial on how to get, say, Qtractor driving any of the Synths, via jack I guess, would be helpful. Or simply a flow-chart, suggesting in which order to start the applications up in, would be a start. It would be nice to then Save that as a Project. Any Tutorials or suggestions on getting started with Studio Audio, much appreciated. -- 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
Re: new Studio user writes
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013, at 11:35 AM, adam wrote: Newly installed 12.04 Studio. And Xfce seems nice. I am interested in Audio, primarily. So, with the U Forums down, where should I start? There are many apps from the Audio Production menu, but I guess mastering patching jack is step 1 ? Do I still need pasuspend? If using qjackct, just select your card and start jack. You can find more info here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/ProAudioIntro Is there a Studio Tutorial on setting up jack ? Perhaps the jack site for Command line Alt-F2, or perhaps the Qjackctl site ? A Tutorial on how to get, say, Qtractor driving any of the Synths, via jack I guess, would be helpful. Or simply a flow-chart, suggesting in which order to start the applications up in, would be a start. It would be nice to then Save that as a Project. Any Tutorials or suggestions on getting started with Studio Audio, much appreciated. -- 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
Re: new Studio user writes
Jack is easy to configure. It is the Pulse audio that can be a real bad player in this. If you like you can install Teamviewer and share you screen where I can give you pointers on how to work with Jack and he audio settings. www.teamviewer.com - Make sure you get the teamviewer for Linux or Ubuntu. It is free. Thanks, Abe On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:35 AM, adam ah...@orcon.net.nz wrote: Newly installed 12.04 Studio. And Xfce seems nice. I am interested in Audio, primarily. So, with the U Forums down, where should I start? There are many apps from the Audio Production menu, but I guess mastering patching jack is step 1 ? Do I still need pasuspend? Is there a Studio Tutorial on setting up jack ? Perhaps the jack site for Command line Alt-F2, or perhaps the Qjackctl site ? A Tutorial on how to get, say, Qtractor driving any of the Synths, via jack I guess, would be helpful. Or simply a flow-chart, suggesting in which order to start the applications up in, would be a start. It would be nice to then Save that as a Project. Any Tutorials or suggestions on getting started with Studio Audio, much appreciated. -- 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
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2013, at 02:02 PM, Abe Caleb wrote: Jack is easy to configure. It is the Pulse audio that can be a real bad player in this. If you like you can install Teamviewer and share you screen where I can give you pointers on how to work with Jack and he audio settings. www.teamviewer.com - Make sure you get the teamviewer for Linux or Ubuntu. It is free. Thanks, Abe On Ubuntu Studio, the pulseaudio jack module loads automatically, when starting jack, so from there - if you want pulseaudio routed to jack, you only need to set pulseaudio to use jack as input/output from the pulseaudio mixer. -- 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
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I do not like pulse audio so I disabled it. I only use Jack now. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013, at 02:02 PM, Abe Caleb wrote: Jack is easy to configure. It is the Pulse audio that can be a real bad player in this. If you like you can install Teamviewer and share you screen where I can give you pointers on how to work with Jack and he audio settings. www.teamviewer.com - Make sure you get the teamviewer for Linux or Ubuntu. It is free. Thanks, Abe On Ubuntu Studio, the pulseaudio jack module loads automatically, when starting jack, so from there - if you want pulseaudio routed to jack, you only need to set pulseaudio to use jack as input/output from the pulseaudio mixer. -- 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
Re: new Studio user writes
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013, at 02:27 PM, Abe Caleb wrote: I do not like pulse audio so I disabled it. I only use Jack now. Just for your information, disabling pulseaudio won't increase jack performance, however disabling the module will. One way to disable the module is to uninstall pulseaudio-module-jack. However, the module only auto loads, if running jackdbus instead of jackd - which is the default for qjackctl. -- 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
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My intention is not to increase performance. Pulse Audio was causing too many problems and interfering with my alsa apps. Now I can run mixxx and all other apps together, including Firefox, and all audio is working. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013, at 02:27 PM, Abe Caleb wrote: I do not like pulse audio so I disabled it. I only use Jack now. Just for your information, disabling pulseaudio won't increase jack performance, however disabling the module will. One way to disable the module is to uninstall pulseaudio-module-jack. However, the module only auto loads, if running jackdbus instead of jackd - which is the default for qjackctl. -- 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
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A newbie is asking how to do a start, please don't hijack this thread. Sometime ago we did something similar and the OP of this other thread never came back. If you want to discuss pulseaudio please open a new thread. IMO the OP should give us some information, so we can explain how to set up jackd, e.g. that the OP shouldn't touch periods/buffer size, excepted it's some crappy internal device that should be used with a value of 3 instead of 2. Latency should be set by using frames/period and sample rate only etc. pp., however, we still need some information from the OP. E.g. what I already ask to do: Forwarded Message To: ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: new Studio user writes Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:50:29 +0200 You can get some hints on this list. First of all push The Alt-Key and F2-key at the same time and then type xfce4-terminal In the terminal emulation type cat /proc/asound/cards then mark the output with the mouse, with a right click open a menu to copy it. Past it to the next mail you send to the list. -- 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
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Adam it depends on what you need to do in Jack. I use it for many different scenarios such as mixing a composition from LMMS (Linux Multimedia Studio) to vocals in Audacity. Or you may want to record something from YouTube and mix with audio in Audacity. With Jack you can do this. There are many other uses for it and you will enjoy using it as you gain confidence and knowledge in how it works. I use it all the time and you are welcome to share my desktop and see how I have it set up. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:35 AM, adam ah...@orcon.net.nz wrote: Newly installed 12.04 Studio. And Xfce seems nice. I am interested in Audio, primarily. So, with the U Forums down, where should I start? There are many apps from the Audio Production menu, but I guess mastering patching jack is step 1 ? Do I still need pasuspend? Is there a Studio Tutorial on setting up jack ? Perhaps the jack site for Command line Alt-F2, or perhaps the Qjackctl site ? A Tutorial on how to get, say, Qtractor driving any of the Synths, via jack I guess, would be helpful. Or simply a flow-chart, suggesting in which order to start the applications up in, would be a start. It would be nice to then Save that as a Project. Any Tutorials or suggestions on getting started with Studio Audio, much appreciated. -- 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
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A trick I've been using since the forums are down is to Google search my question and view the cached page. On Jul 29, 2013 10:29 AM, Abe Caleb theorganl...@gmail.com wrote: Adam it depends on what you need to do in Jack. I use it for many different scenarios such as mixing a composition from LMMS (Linux Multimedia Studio) to vocals in Audacity. Or you may want to record something from YouTube and mix with audio in Audacity. With Jack you can do this. There are many other uses for it and you will enjoy using it as you gain confidence and knowledge in how it works. I use it all the time and you are welcome to share my desktop and see how I have it set up. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:35 AM, adam ah...@orcon.net.nz wrote: Newly installed 12.04 Studio. And Xfce seems nice. I am interested in Audio, primarily. So, with the U Forums down, where should I start? There are many apps from the Audio Production menu, but I guess mastering patching jack is step 1 ? Do I still need pasuspend? Is there a Studio Tutorial on setting up jack ? Perhaps the jack site for Command line Alt-F2, or perhaps the Qjackctl site ? A Tutorial on how to get, say, Qtractor driving any of the Synths, via jack I guess, would be helpful. Or simply a flow-chart, suggesting in which order to start the applications up in, would be a start. It would be nice to then Save that as a Project. Any Tutorials or suggestions on getting started with Studio Audio, much appreciated. -- 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 -- 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
