The other package is called parabola-proaudio, and its a meta-package that contains the proaudio-settings plus some of the most popular and established free and open source audio programs including ardour, qtractor, qsynth, soundfont-fluid, hydrogen, calf, lmms, zynaddsubfx, etc...
This is my most serious contribution to the Linux Audio community, and hopefully not the last one. And i choose Parabola because its closer to my ideal for operating system as possible.
Parabola as a ProAudio OS is for those artists that value the free and open source software, and wants to have maximum control on their computers using the cutting edge software available at any time. I recommend it for those artists that does not look at GNU/Linux just as a compromise for Apple and Windows and realise the power and uniqueness of the open source software, and for those that appreciate their artistic and personal Freedom, especially in post Edward Snowden world, that we are living now.
All you need to do is:
1. enable [pcr] and [kernels] in /etc/pacman.conf
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[pcr]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[kernels]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
2. add your user to audio group
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gpasswd --add your-user-name audio
3. Install parabola-proaudio-settings (Desktop independent) https://www.parabola.nu/packages/pcr/any/parabola-proaudio-settings/
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pacman -S parabola-proaudio-settings
4. make the settings started at boot
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systemctl enable parabola-proaudio-settings.service
5. (optional) install the following meta-packages: parabola-proaudio (Desktop independent) https://www.parabola.nu/packages/pcr/any/parabola-proaudio/ + dssi-plugins, ladspa-plugins, lv2-plugins
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pacman -S parabola-proaudio patchage dssi-plugins ladspa-plugins lv2-plugins
6. (optional) If you have a firewire soundcard its recommended to install rtirq
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pacman -S rtirq
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systemctl enable rtirq
7. Install the notorious realtime kernel (available in the [kernels] repository)
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pacman -S linux-libre-rt
8. (optional) If you choose to build your system to use Pulseaudio, you can find further instructions here:
https://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=15228
You can download the latest Parabola iso from here: https://wiki.parabola.nu/Get_Parabola The website requires CaCert to be loaded properly
PS: This instructions are now available in video format here
https://youtu.be/202S4eeF8ik
Happy Hacking,
Totalchaos