hi to all,
i'm Gabriele and i'm fresh new user of this forum.
Someitimes i lurked this forum but i never wrote on the board.
So how are you?
I'm discontinued user of daw's, registration program and sequencer since early 2000, but i never go deep. I used Fruity loops first version, reason, soundforge and audacity, ableton and some times pro tools. I'm also a music passionate and seldom a guitar, bass and synth player. In the last 3 years i go crazy for some instruments like Carla Host, Jack, Audacity.
I recorded, not in a good way, a 9 track demo usign carla, my external alva nano face usb card and audacity. I used audacity as a daw, like a multitrack and then arranged the tracks to match tempo. But it is so difficult, so i started to find a way to use qtractor and find a mixing and mastering software, and drum machine like hydrogen, so i realized: i use windows but all this software is native free open source program!
So i decided to change and start using linux music, i'm a just a linux user (i manged my test and local webserver, creating website in php/laravel in lamp stack ), so i'm just ready to fight with linux distros and software dependencies.
I'd like to ask you something.
1) There are many linux distros for music. I read something about ubutnu studio, fedora, Avlinux. And on real time and low latency kernel. Which are your config? Which is the best for you? What type of hardware do you use? Could i try to use a VM or is a better a new pc? I have an old i7 2th gen with 8mb of ram, is it good?
2) I'd like to try ardour, with Carla, loading vst2 and vst3 plugins, also win plugin, and then using hydrogen. Ardour is also for mixing and mastering or do you use something different? Which is the best routing audio software? Jack or pipewire? I read something about but i can't have an idea yet. I'd like also to join Carla and Hydrogen like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeZWMjaAckA
3) I'd like also to produce and record a podcast. So i need to route browser, discord and something else to different channel creating virtual cables using cadence or something similar. Experience on that?
4) for diffent purpose seldom i have the need to reverse speech to audio from an audio file directly to google document shhet with mic function. I do this on windows with the help of voicemeeter (but i hate it cause it's too heavy) and vb cable. Which is your configuration to pass audio throuh virtual cable to an internal mic?
Pardon me but before start i'd like to find a way to have some clear ideas.
Bye
Thanks
Gabriele