Re: Forging a new path.

2009-04-12 Thread Larry David
This is the perspective of an EE educated, amateur musician/producer/project studio guy, Unix-literate, mostly Mac-using, Linux noob who just installed Ubuntu on a new HP mini 10. I have been reading this list trying to get a feel for the state of Linux audio and to see if I might try Ubuntu

Re: Learning Linux

2009-02-03 Thread Larry David
the time to tweak a real-time kernel for it right now. Sometimes I use ecasound on the command line for mastering from my analog mixer. -=Sean Edwards=- - Original Message From: Larry David larrydavi...@comcast.net To: Ubuntu Studio Users Help and Discussion ubuntu-studio- us

Re: Learning Linux

2009-02-03 Thread Larry David
On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Sean Edwards wrote: When I first started with Linux in 1994, the only documentation available was a readme file. And before I became proficient with the fips utility, I did trash a few 20MB and 40MB hard drives. Kernel compile time on a 386SX was measured

Re: buy a sound card

2009-02-02 Thread Larry David
On Feb 2, 2009, at 12:30 AM, laurent.bellegarde wrote: Hi everyone, I'm writting a book about audio-video editing with free software... I need too examples of sound card that runs without any trouble or very easily under GNU/Linux, for beginners (and cheaper) : for medium use,

Learning Linux

2009-02-02 Thread Larry David
I hope this isn't too noobish for the list - can anyone recommend a book or a website to learn Linux - enough to be comfortable installing and troubleshooting UBS? I have read Wikipedia's entry, and have learned a lot from this list, but I'd like to get fully up to speed. I have some

Work/workflow examples?

2009-02-02 Thread Larry David
First let me say thank you to everyone who has replied so helpfully to my questioning posts so far. In looking back at them I notice that I tend to put lots of questions or comments in a single post, and that (not surprisingly) some of them go by without any response. So I will try to be

Re: Learning Linux

2009-02-02 Thread Larry David
On Feb 2, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Christopher Stamper wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Karoliina Salminen karoliina.t.salmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Larry David larrydavi...@comcast.net wrote: I hope this isn't too noobish for the list - can anyone

Re: Learning Linux

2009-02-02 Thread Larry David
, at 3:15 PM, Karoliina Salminen wrote: Hello, On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Larry David larrydavi...@comcast.net wrote: I hope this isn't too noobish for the list - can anyone recommend a book or a website to learn Linux - enough to be comfortable installing and troubleshooting UBS? Well

Re: Learning Linux

2009-02-02 Thread Larry David
Thanks Gustin, that looks like just the sort of stuff I was looking for. I'll give those a go. ld On Feb 2, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Gustin Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry David wrote: Thanks - I was thinking more of command line stuff I guess. I

Re: What would you change in the audio app list?

2009-02-02 Thread Larry David
On Feb 2, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Hartmut Noack wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cory K. schrieb: manager, has been removed. :) Specimen the sampler, I *think* wasn't included because the case was made for another already included app. Well: Specimen does not use any

Re: netbooks etc

2009-01-28 Thread Larry David
On Jan 28, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Kim Cascone wrote: I'd try on my laptop but I just shelved it in a attempt to spend less time on these damn things. :P yeah I know - I've been bitten by the Linux bug again and have been spending a lot of time hunting, tweaking etc but I hear from a colleague

Re: What HW/SW do people have working?

2009-01-27 Thread Larry David
to something you have enabled/disabled for your DAW or is it just a coincidence? ld On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:56 AM, sue...@empire.net wrote: Original Message: - From: Larry David larrydavi...@comcast.net Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:33:39 -0500 To: ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: usb/midi adapter - which ones work well?

2009-01-27 Thread Larry David
Hey Rob, Others here know the answers to your questions with certainty, but I'll tell you what I think based on my research so far. I'm pretty sure that you will need a driver for the expresscard. If you're lucky (or smart and look into it before you buy) you'll get a card that is

Re: What HW/SW works... double post sorry

2009-01-26 Thread Larry David
Sorry for the double post - I sent this originally I think before subbing to the list - then subbed when I found out it had to be approved first - guess it was and here it is again - please ignore (or respond if you haven't yet to the first one)... ld On Jan 25, 2009, at 12:54 AM, Larry

Re: What HW/SW do people have working?

2009-01-26 Thread Larry David
On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Scott wrote: This may answer your questions about xruns, latency, etc. http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/SomeNotesOnLatency Pay attention to the section titled So why is the latency higher than on OS XYZ? In any case, Thanks, that was very informative.

Re: Pulse ?

2009-01-26 Thread Larry David
one, I kill myself...) what is possible with Pulse that is not possible without it? Just trying to decide if I would really need it or not... ld (not *that* Larry David; actually far cooler and better looking - and younger!) On Jan 26, 2009, at 5:04 PM, sandie wrote: Cory K. wrote: Pulse

What HW/SW do people have working?

2009-01-25 Thread Larry David
Hi - I'm a Mac user and musician. I'm thinking of switching to Linux with my next laptop, and am wondering what people are using for audio/ MIDI interfaces, and what software - DAW, plugins, softsynths, etc.? It looks like developers are doing lots of exciting things with Linux and music

Re: What HW/SW do people have working?

2009-01-25 Thread Larry David
On Jan 25, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Scott wrote: Larry David wrote: Are you using a Linux machine regularly to do audio/MIDI and finding it solid and useable, or is this still mostly an experiment to see what you can get running and for how long? I'm not doing any MIDI, just audio recording 12