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I really need to try Fedora again too, but I'm put off by its vastly smaller repos compared to Ubuntu and suse. Ubuntu has the most commercial support and online docs but my impression has been QA has been slipping in the last few years whilst suse users seem to talk of how stable it is. Stable is g...

I moved house almost a month ago so I've been without broadband recently - I should regain it next week with any luck but this lack of connectivity has meant I've not been able to answer the following myself: A friend has recently contacted me who I installed Debian for about 7 years ago. She wants ...

GOOD NEWS Ardour 5.8 is currently the binary version in the TrueOS repos but it was as simple as typing `make install` in the ardour5 ports directory to bulld and install 5.10. THE BAD Under the current TrueOS and FreeBSD kernels, only root can run JACK with RT mode enabled. There is a new ports ker...

samplv1 LV2 works under TrueOS Ardour too.

Hi CrocoDuck I agree it makes more sense to keep it as a sub-forum here, if there is ever enough FreeBSD/TrueOS users to justify a new sub-forum. I'm not sure I see the point in PureDarwin personally. Why should anyone use that over something based upon Linux or FreeBSD? macOS's interesting tech, as...

Good work and thanks for your blog meka! Maybe we'll have to start a FreeBSDMusicians one day! There are at least 3 of us! Maybe a subforum here might make more sense, if they let us, if there is enough interest one day? I've always valued portable software. If something works under both FreeBSD and...

Since my last post I have tested OSS MIDI with my MIDI keyboard under TrueOS, and I now have my single drive, BIOS-based laptop dual booting TrueOS and Arch. I was impressed that my USB MIDI controller 'just worked' without me having to load any kernel modules or anything - I just plugged it in and ...

Thanks Crocoduck! That online metronome is the best solution yet, it can prob be used offline with wine too as there is a downloadable exe version of it but I've not tried that yet. The prob with it is that when set to the higher tempos (152+ bpm), it strains my eyes trying to watch it. It's prob a ...

Under most Linux distros/kernels (ie with non Low-latency / RT kernels), JACK fails to start if I try enabling RT mode. I always thought this was a kernel dependent feature? If not, what enables RT mode to work? Permissions.It won't work by default on any security conscious distro, and this is the ...

There are two things that have struck me in my first couple of days of using JACK under FreeBSD. The first I've already mentioned and that is how nice it is to have RT mode work without needing a patched kernel You don't need a patched kernel for JACK to run in RT mode. Under most Linux distros/ker...

More good news! My Scarlett 2i4 works great with both pulseaudio and JACK. I can have Pulseaudio for firefox output to my hifi amp whilst JACK is running on my Scarlett, xrun free. Jack started on my Scarlett on the first attempt - it was almost too good to be true! The only slight downside is that ...

There are two things that have struck me in my first couple of days of using JACK under FreeBSD. The first I've already mentioned and that is how nice it is to have RT mode work without needing a patched kernel and the second is that I really appreciate that I can use pulseaudio to get audio under F...

I don't think you understand what I want. I want an app that simulates the sway of a physical metronome, so that you can keep time without hearing a click. That might just be some pixels moving left/right or up/down like gtick, but as I said that doesn't quite work properly. I'd rather it NOT be a f...

I had not tried Ardour for a few point releases but now I can confirm that its metronome has no visual aspect, it is purely an audio metronome unless I'm missing something.

I finally got round to trying jvmetro, albeit under FreeBSD. When I start it, all I get is a red window. I thought I might need to attach it to a JACK MIDI source but it didn't create any JACK ports. If anyone else wants to try, I built it using the command: gcc -I /usr/local/include jvmetro.c `sdl-...