LinuxMusicians

Yeah, iteration works for me. I never come up with good stuff through hours of meticulous planning and follow-though (and I've tried). It's always the 20-minute improv sessions that end up as winners. Usually I'll have a rough idea before I fire up the DAW, but I'll just play what comes to mind. The...

In the next year or so, I'm going to be in a financial position to set up an office and hire a staff to work with me on my ideas. Like Shuttleworth? I ain't interested. Canonical and Redhat have caused enough trouble for Linux. So much trouble, in fact, that you'd be better off starting a new OS fr...

Yes, as I person who does music and game dev on the same machine, I use Debian with KXStudio repos. Game dev doesn't need anything special, just g++ basically. And KXStudio has music covered. Same here; Mint+KX in my case. I'm worried about the future of Linux but I don't think yet another Linux di...

You can open the Network Monitor (Ctrl-Shift-Q in Firefox) to see what 3rd party sites your browser is actually connecting to. NoScript is good but it won't protect you if you click "Allow All On This Page" on a few sites. You'll end up whitelisting shit like Google Analytics and Facebook,...

Ardour and Qtractor both use librubberband for realtime time-stretching. Audacity probably sounds better because it uses a more cpu-intensive, non-realtime algorithm (or possibly librubberband with different settings). All time-stretching (and pitch-shifting) algorithms basically work by breaking th...

You probably have a generic kernel "meta-package" installed. To find it, try this: dpkg -l 'linux*' |grep generic Anything with "un" in front has been uninstalled, "ii" is still installed. Be careful what you remove! :mrgreen: FYI, linux-lowlatency-lts-vivid (Ubuntu low...

That all sounds good, thanks for working to make this smoother. Keep in mind that many users are likely to be on laptops and regularly change soundcards and regularly suspend their systems. Yeah.. speakers/headphones are internal audio, HDMI is another "soundcard" (or several of them), US...

... the current way of doing it in cadence is error-prone and needs to be managed by the user from time to time, as you said. ... I know the current cadence could be better, I need to make some time for it.. Okay, thanks! Because for me the "time to time" from "managed by the user fr...

Ubuntu suffers from a fundamental conflict with free software / open source principles. Canonical (like RedHat, Google, Apple, Mozilla, etc) is a business whose #1 goal is to generate cash flow to sustain itself, its employees, and its investors. I'm not anti-capitalist. However, this hybrid arrange...

I use the Pulse bridge sometimes for browsers and other non-JACK apps; it's good enough for that (in 14.04). Still a bit flaky and confusing; I guess it's been around long enough for code rot to set in. Upshot is, yes, you can fiddle with settings, reset or change the output device, and the music ke...

Just a baseline i've jammed together once for practising. Picked it out quick to fun your great work for FaTony's request. :lol: Working it out further is what you may do yourself. If you want i can get you the baseline i used (wav). Set it at 184 bpm (or was it 92?) yourself to enter it as a track...

Thanks all! :D Interesting concept but I've always felt that "now it's a good time for some rhythm guitar and drums ..." You mean something like this Tony? :mrgreen: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2R-iF9z8e2cVWtVNTBTaEdkeVE I was just foolin' around a bit. Perhaps motivating? Let me kn...

This started out as "just 30 seconds to see if I can make this piece sound really good on electric guitar"... 5 months later I'm on the home stretch :D It's the harpsichord version of "the" bach double violin concerto in D minor, reduced to 2 guitar parts. https://soundcloud.com/...

I'm surprised noone's mentioned that 16.04 (and Debian Jessie) have adopted the infamous systemd , from the same fellow who brought us PulseAudio. I had some difficult-to-troubleshoot problems with it when I was running Fedora 17 or 18 a few years ago (that was the first distro to use systemd). I ex...

They probably had a bad experience with Linux. I've been using it for 20+ years and I have to say it was horrible for audio and realtime stuff until the last few years. Even now it's hit-or-miss unless you take advice from a forum like this. My guess is that they're smug Mac weenies, because audio &...