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by danboid
Mon May 29, 2017 9:50 am
Forum: Linux Music News
Topic: Sing, beastie, sing!
Replies: 73
Views: 37080

Re: Sing, beastie, sing!

Actually, I've just noticed that the GUI mixer that comes with TrueOS lets you set the recording source and works with pulseaudio too so that could well be my best bet for a GUI mixer. Its better than the alternatives I've tried from ports.
by danboid
Mon May 29, 2017 9:42 am
Forum: Linux Music News
Topic: Sing, beastie, sing!
Replies: 73
Views: 37080

Re: Sing, beastie, sing!

Will do Mr pill! I wanted a guitar tuner so I tried lingot from ports first but I failed to get that working with either JACK and OSS but thankfully gxtuner compiled easily and works great. Its better than lingot too because you can scale the GUI. lingot is pretty much unusable on a 4K+ display for ...
by danboid
Sat May 27, 2017 1:31 pm
Forum: Linux Music News
Topic: Sing, beastie, sing!
Replies: 73
Views: 37080

Re: Sing, beastie, sing!

I have now got JACK running under TrueOS. I uninstalled the 0.124.1 package from the TrueOS repo and installed 0.125 from ports. I've not tested anything yet but at least jack starts from the command line (jackd -r -d oss) and via qjackctl now! It's nice that the JACK rt option 'just works' under th...
by danboid
Fri May 26, 2017 10:24 am
Forum: Linux Music News
Topic: Sing, beastie, sing!
Replies: 73
Views: 37080

Re: Sing, beastie, sing!

I've just given JACK a go under TrueOS but failed to get it to start, even with the dummy driver. I have written a reply to the linked article that is waiting approval, asking if the author has any tips to get over my 'bus error'. Maybe he has built a custom version instead of using jackit from the ...
by danboid
Wed May 24, 2017 2:26 pm
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: Visual metronome
Replies: 20
Views: 18477

Re: Visual metronome

Thanks milk - I'll check that out later. Have you tried it? Did you find it useful? It doesn't sound like it'd be much use on its own but I'm sure I can find a good lightweight JACK app to combine it with. 42low: I know lots of apps have integrated metronomes but I want more than just a click and.or...
by danboid
Wed May 24, 2017 1:23 pm
Forum: Linux Music News
Topic: Sing, beastie, sing!
Replies: 73
Views: 37080

Re: Sing, beastie, sing!

Hi crocoduck Whilst I can recommend FreeBSD as a server OS without hesitation, its much harder to recommend FreeBSD or TrueOS as a desktop OS, even to those who would know how to use it. The main reason is hardware compatibility followed by software availability. The number of people who will be ful...
by danboid
Wed May 24, 2017 10:43 am
Forum: Linux Music News
Topic: Sing, beastie, sing!
Replies: 73
Views: 37080

Re: Sing, beastie, sing!

All change! After over 20 years of using Linux as my primary OS at home, I have now ditched it in favour of FreeBSD/TrueOS. TrueOS is a version of FreeBSD customised for home/desktop computer users. The main reason is that no Linux distro supports ZFS as well as FreeBSD and TrueOS do and I value ZFS...
by danboid
Mon May 22, 2017 2:51 pm
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: Visual metronome
Replies: 20
Views: 18477

Visual metronome

The only Linux metronome app I've been able to find with a visual element is gtick but its visual beat indicator doesn't work very well - it frequently (as in every few beats) skips/'jerks' to catch up to the click.

Is there nothing better out there?
by danboid
Mon May 22, 2017 2:42 pm
Forum: Plugins, Effects and Instruments
Topic: Transonic: open source!
Replies: 7
Views: 5257

Re: Transonic: open source!

What does Transonic do that can't be done under any DAW that supports VSTs?
by danboid
Fri May 12, 2017 9:36 am
Forum: Linux Music News
Topic: Sing, beastie, sing!
Replies: 73
Views: 37080

Re: Sing, beastie, sing!

Luc has convinced me to give opensuse another go soon. I'm not married to Arch (or Debian or Redhat) and I need to find out for myself how tumbleweed compares to Arch. OBS offers more than the AUR or the Arch infrastructure and allegedly it has more packages too. I quite fancy using it to create a c...
by danboid
Tue May 09, 2017 8:30 pm
Forum: Recorders & Sequencers
Topic: Migrating from Musescore & LMMS to Rosegarden - confused.
Replies: 33
Views: 17460

Re: Migrating from Musescore & LMMS to Rosegarden - confused.

It doesn't answer your questions but that sounds like a downgrade to me. I would recommend qtractor or MusE instead of RG if you want a FLOSS sequencer. Musescore is the best FLOSS GUI music typesetting app by a long stretch - RG is just buggy and incomplete in comparison. LMMS is simplistic compar...
by danboid
Tue May 09, 2017 7:06 pm
Forum: Recorders & Sequencers
Topic: Migrating from Musescore & LMMS to Rosegarden - confused.
Replies: 33
Views: 17460

Re: Migrating from Musescore & LMMS to Rosegarden - confused.

REAPER can import mid alright - don't worry about that!

Linux REAPER will be $60 for the discount license, just like Win and Mac.
by danboid
Tue May 09, 2017 3:16 pm
Forum: Linux Music News
Topic: [ANN] reMID.lv2 (that's right. a chiptune plugin.)
Replies: 33
Views: 20080

Re: [ANN] reMID.lv2 (that's right. a chiptune plugin.)

Obvs the advantage over Qt will be that it won't do everything you could want to do with a computer hence will be more streamlined ;)
by danboid
Tue May 09, 2017 3:12 pm
Forum: Linux Music News
Topic: [ANN] reMID.lv2 (that's right. a chiptune plugin.)
Replies: 33
Views: 20080

Re: [ANN] reMID.lv2 (that's right. a chiptune plugin.)

A new toolkit!?! Talk about making things hard for yourself! What advantage do you foresee for your toolkit over Qt, GTK, fltk, JUCE etc? Sounds like a HELL of a lot of extra work! I'm not keen on using Carla as a plugin bridge TBH. Sounds like the GPLing of VST3 hasn't changed your stance towards i...
by danboid
Tue May 09, 2017 2:36 pm
Forum: Recorders & Sequencers
Topic: Migrating from Musescore & LMMS to Rosegarden - confused.
Replies: 33
Views: 17460

Re: Migrating from Musescore & LMMS to Rosegarden - confused.

Linux REAPER is already quite stable in its unfinished form according to most testers BUT I must admit I've never tried its notation so I can't say how that compares to Musescore. AND REAPER isn't in any way official for Linux yet so it may never see an official release although I find that very unl...