LinuxMusicians

H all, I have just uploaded a new part to a tutorial series I have been writing centred on Linux recording. I have tried to stay away from lots of technical language that is specific to Linux because I feel that people see words like "qjackctrl" and instantly drop any notion of trying Linux because it looks complicated. Instead i have focused on what you actually have to do to record, for now but i intend to continue writing. here is the link. http://www.infobarrel.com/Use_Your_Comp ... sic_part_4 so please tell me what you think. I think they're getting good but I can handle criticism.

This is good, basic information on what is possible with open source that may get a beginner interested. I think you should link to other resources such as

http://www.flossmanuals.net/ardour/

and perhaps some demo videos of the various applications. When you are starting off it's hard to even know what is possible.

I think that a stumbling block for a lot of users, including myself, is what to set up in JACK to get good results. It seems to be a bit of a 'black art'. It would be great to have some sort of tool that could pull in typical settings for the type of hardware you have and perhaps even run some tests to tune it in to minimise latency and xruns.

Cheers steevec, I am glad you like it, getting people interested is what i am trying to achieve. All my friends either use macs with chopped down versions of ProTools that came with overpriced interfaces or are using cracked versions of stuff like Cubase. Sometimes I want to throttle them while shouting "NO NEED!!" in their face but writing these guides seemed a bit more reasonable. I think you are right about linking to the external stuff to make it easy for anyone I do snare to find the juicy bits of info. The guides will progress and get on to topics like latency etc, for now i wanted to get people experimenting excitedly.

The jack control program is nice, but I've recently discovered that the "Ladish" system seems to be better-suited for project recording, especially when using the "Cadence" tools from KXStudio. The interface for connecting applications resembles a flowchart of sorts, and makes connecting applications into signal chains much more intuitive.

You can find the program (along with the package repositories) at the KXStudio webste: http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/

Thanks reteo, I never knew that LADISH existed. I will be checking that out further. Thanks for the link to KXStudio I didn't know about that either. Good show.