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 Stu

Re: Learning Linux

2009-02-03 Thread Larry David
7;t have 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 > To: Ubuntu Studio Users Help and Disc

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 measure

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

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

Re: Learning Linux

2009-02-02 Thread Larry David
3:15 PM, Karoliina Salminen wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Larry David > 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

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 wrote: Hello, On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Larry David wrote: > I hope this isn't too noobish for the list - can anyone recommend a > book or a website to

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

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 progra

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 us

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 in

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 supp

Re: What HW/SW do people have working?

2009-01-27 Thread Larry David
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

Re: What HW/SW do people have working?

2009-01-26 Thread Larry David
On Jan 26, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Gustin Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Larry David wrote: >> Thanks Scott. I've gotten the impression that using audio/MIDI >> hardware on a Linux machine is sort of the opposite of plug-and-play; >

Re: Pulse ?

2009-01-26 Thread Larry David
there's another 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 wro

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 inform

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,

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

2009-01-26 Thread Larry David
Hey Atom (or is it Mr. Smasher? :-) Since no one has offered anything on this thread, I'll give you my absolutely noobian $0.02, which maybe $0.005 more than you know, but at this stage I suppose anything helps. From what I've read online, any USB compliant device is supposed to work with

What HW/SW works with Ubuntu Studio?

2009-01-26 Thread Larry David
Hi - I'm a Mac user and musician. I'm thinking of switching to Linux with my next laptop, and am trying to figure out if I can use my audio interfaces, and what software is really useable. What are people using for audio/MIDI interfaces, and what software do you use - DAW, plugins, softsy

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'

Re: What HW/SW do people have working?

2009-01-25 Thread Larry David
> through similar steps to get it up and running. My command line > stuff can all be done > in the GUI if cli isn't your bag. > > It's definitely worth doing in Linux for the RT kernel > capabilities. Anyway, the > entire process took about 10 minutes with a

Re: What HW/SW do people have working?

2009-01-25 Thread Larry David
009, at 4:34 PM, Scott wrote: > Larry David wrote: >> 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, softsyn

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 (at