[Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff
Wayne ward
wayneward100 at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 15 16:01:24 UTC 2008
Wicked is the version 3.5.5?
3.5.9 has quite a few extra features but still unstable
KDE is my choice of windows manager and its slick as hell on 64studio!!
I did some multitracking last night i put down some drums - bass guitar - and a guitar track
and got no x runs at all!!! solid.
Even the gnome desktop it comes with is pretty loaded up with all the required tools
I just cant understand why they load it with abiword?!!
Open office is so much better and there is plenty of space left on the dvd for the packages!
Regards
Wayne
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> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:01:03 +0100
> From: andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
> To: wayneward100 at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff
>
> Wayne ward wrote:
>> Yes i tried my hardest to keep my base system stable but i needed kde 3.5.9
>> I usually can keep it stable but this time I havent done it right and unstable
>> has crept past my apt-pinning!!
>>
> eek!
>> so i have a debian sid base with the 64studio kernel and most other items are 64 studio :-(
>> But saying that its solid - ive still got some pinning in place so most of the machine is running stable!!
>> It shouldnt be to long before kde 3.5.9 goes into stable then life will be much easier for me!!
>> Or will it be time to move to kde then!!!??? aagghhh decisions decisions !!
>>
>> Are you using the standard gnome install with 64studio?
>>
>>
> using kde. So far it's working fine.
>
> andy
>> kde control center is easy!
>> system administration font installer to install fonts
>> and appearance and themes & fonts
>> you can adjust fonts and view installed fonts
>>
>> wayne
>>
>>
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>>> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:30:21 +0100
>>> From: andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
>>> To: wayneward100 at hotmail.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff
>>>
>>> Wayne ward wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andy this is worth doing on 64studio to get nice fonts..
>>>> it works on mine..
>>>>
>>>> http://artipc10.vub.ac.be/serendipity/archives/61-Getting-nice-anti-aliased-fonts-in-Debian.html
>>>>
>>>> infact i just did it!!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thanks. I have done this, though it turned into a bit of a saga, as
>>> having set it up, I then wanted to find a nice font viewer to look at
>>> the fonts with. The only one I could find was fontmatrix, but this is
>>> only in debian testing. I didn't want to install testing for my base
>>> system because it might be unstable, so decided to follow these
>>> instructions:
>>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot
>>>
>>> on installing a testing release inside a chroot jail on a stable system.
>>> This has worked really nicely - you can even run the testing programs
>>> from an X terminal inside the stable X session if you want, with a bit
>>> of tweaking (mainly using mount --bind to mirror the X server socket
>>> directory inside the chroot jail). So all good fun in the end.
>>>
>>> andy
>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:32:31 +0100
>>>>> From: andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
>>>>> To: wayneward100 at hotmail.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes it's running realtime. The only thing I'm worried about at the
>>>>> moment is things like DVD playing - I saw something which said debian
>>>>> doesn't support this. I'm sure I'll find a way round it though.
>>>>>
>>>>> andy
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. I think your email program isn't working right - you messages keep
>>>>> coming out with no line breaks, all run into one long sentence.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wayne ward wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Wicked thats what you want! Are you running realtime aswell? There
>>>>>> shoud be a small RT sign i your qjackctl window.. It should just be
>>>>>> realtime out of the box... Wayne
>>>>>> ----------------------------------------> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008
>>>>>> 14:27:12 +0100> From: andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk> To:
>>>>>> lancaster at mailman.lug.org.uk> Subject: Re: [Lancaster] distro for
>>>>>> audio / music stuff>> andy baxter wrote:>> andy baxter wrote:>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Can anyone recommend a good distro for doing simple music
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>> recording />>> editing / etc? I use ubuntu for everything else, but
>>>>>> I've just spent a>>> fair bit of money on a new external firewire
>>>>>> sound card with 2 inputs>>> and outputs, and then found various
>>>>>> annoying bugs in the programs I'm>>> using (jackd, ardour, and
>>>>>> zynaddsubfx so far), which is making me think>>> that the ubuntu
>>>>>> people don't really have audio work as their main>>> priority when
>>>>>> keeping packages up to date. I could use 'planet CCRMA'>>>
>>>>>> (http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/), but this is fedora
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> based I would rather use something debian based.>>>>>>>>>> I'm
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>> just trying out 64studio ( 64studio.com ). It seems to be very>>
>>>>>> closely based on debian (it uses all debian repositories unless you
>>>>>> want>> bleeding edge stuff which they have their own repository for).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> P.S. I just realised what I said here isn't quite right. They do
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> have> their own stable repositories for multimedia apps, but keep
>>>>>> them> compatible enough with debian etch (stable) that you can put
>>>>>> that in> /etc/apt/sources.list as well.>> Still really impressed
>>>>>> with this distro - been playing about recording a> guitar and drum
>>>>>> track using ardour, and so far I haven't had a single> xrun. (xruns
>>>>>> are what happens when a bit of audio data gets lost because> the
>>>>>> software can't keep up with the hardware).>> andy>>
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