Ubuntu PPA for *all* Linux Multimedia stuff

[Capoeira]

man, this guy is fast......he is like contructing a new audio-distro allready?!?!

if Lucid would be stable, I would upgrade just because of this PPA....lolol

[falkTX]

I'm actually starting a new Linux distro called "KXStudio".

Think of UbuntuStudio + Lots of new stuff + Full 64bit support.
KDE will be used as default DE, but all the resources are shared to Ubuntu via PPAs.
I already have most the artwork and metapackages, so I'm kinda of just waiting for Lucid to be released.

Of course I'll need to do more than that, so I also have plans for a website (made in Joomla) and 32bit/64bit ISOs distributed using P2P (torrents).

I should release an Alpha/Beta around the end of March

[Capoeira]

I'm actually starting a new Linux distro called "KXStudio".

Think of UbuntuStudio + Lots of new stuff + Full 64bit support.
KDE will be used as default DE

I like that.....more even because I use KDE, too.........how about a pre-audio-configuered Fluxbox too? it's great for audio-work

[falkTX]

I'm actually starting a new Linux distro called "KXStudio".

Think of UbuntuStudio + Lots of new stuff + Full 64bit support.
KDE will be used as default DE

I like that.....more even because I use KDE, too.........how about a pre-audio-configuered Fluxbox too? it's great for audio-work

You can just install the Ubuntu minimal ISO, then fluxbox, then some of KXStudio metapackages (audio apps/plugins, video, etc).
I'm sticking with KDE, but everyone is free to use what they want.

[Capoeira]

You can just install the Ubuntu minimal ISO, then fluxbox, then some of KXStudio metapackages (audio apps/plugins, video, etc).

in fact, i allready did it like this in Karmic and Hardy....best way to have a costumized distro

[werock]

Great work so far

Some suggestions for more packages:

Dino (MIDI Sequencer) http://dino.nongnu.org/
SoftWerk (MIDI Pattern Sequencer) http://sourceforge.net/projects/softwerk/

[studio32]

Why do you build (against) Lash? Imo Ladish is far more useful atm and it can conflict with Lash. I did not dive in this issue to deeply though...

More packages:
Non-mixer

[falkTX]

Why do you build (against) Lash? Imo Ladish is far more useful atm and it can conflict with Lash.

I try to use both. But most of the apss don't support ladish yet, so lash has to be used.
In fact, one of the goals of ladish is to provide a compatibility library for lash-only apps, so it could be useful in the future.

PS: I'm also developing a tool similar to gLadish, some sort of "Audio Instruments/Effects manager".

[studio32]

Why do you build (against) Lash? Imo Ladish is far more useful atm and it can conflict with Lash.

I try to use both. But most of the apss don't support ladish yet, so lash has to be used.
In fact, one of the goals of ladish is to provide a compatibility library for lash-only apps, so it could be useful in the future.

PS: I'm also developing a tool similar to gLadish, some sort of "Audio Instruments/Effects manager".

The name gladish is already in use by the ladish project.

Are lv2rack and non-mixer not such audio instruments/ effect managers already?
AFAIk Lv2rack is 'searching' for another (new) maintainer. Ask Nedko about it.

[falkTX]

LV2Rack, ZynJackU, gLadish... all of them use Gtk (which I don't like).

That's one of the main reasons I want to do my own app (and also to learn more about programing).
Not sure if it will be useful or not, but at least I keep learning new stuff

[studio32]

LV2Rack, ZynJackU, gLadish... all of them use Gtk (which I don't like).

That's one of the main reasons I want to do my own app (and also to learn more about programing).
Not sure if it will be useful or not, but at least I keep learning new stuff

Then I would suggest to make an QT version of those applications and not discover the wheel again, cause that's not pushing the quality of linux audio most of the times imho. Also as a programmer of Linux audio software, you should take the (LAU and LAD) community in account and you can learn a lot from them and they from you maybe.

edit: Your ppa doesn't contain normal ardour? Would be nice if it is possible to install both ardour2 and ardourvst.

[falkTX]

LV2Rack, ZynJackU, gLadish... all of them use Gtk (which I don't like).

That's one of the main reasons I want to do my own app (and also to learn more about programing).
Not sure if it will be useful or not, but at least I keep learning new stuff

Then I would suggest to make an QT version of those applications and not discover the wheel again, cause that's not pushing the quality of linux audio most of the times imho. Also as a programmer of Linux audio software, you should take the (LAU and LAD) community in account and you can learn a lot from them and they from you maybe.

edit: Your ppa doesn't contain normal ardour? Would be nice if it is possible to install both ardour2 and ardourvst.

Thanks for the info, but, honestly, I don't think of myself as a good programmer; I still have a lot to learn before interaction and code-sharing. In a couple of months this may change though.

Ardour2 is already in Ubuntu repos, so I deleted it from the PPA. I'll soon update it to v2.8.7.

[studio32]

Thanks for the info, but, honestly, I don't think of myself as a good programmer; I still have a lot to learn before interaction and code-sharing. In a couple of months this may change though.

You can learn from interaction, don't wait for it

BTW, there is an bug in your package improvisor, I think it's name is impro-visor not improvisor. Which is important cause improvisor is an fork actually of impro-visor...

[falkTX]

You can learn from interaction, don't wait for it

I don't have internet access at home... I promise I'll be more collaborative once I get net at home.

BTW, there is an bug in your package improvisor, I think it's name is impro-visor not improvisor. Which is important cause improvisor is an fork actually of impro-visor...

Thanks, I've just fixed that

[studio32]

The Vst plugins in you repo, can those be use with/ in LMMS?