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[oNNogitaar]

Hi there!
new to the forum I introduce myself.
I am a guitarist, arranger, tune composer and well... a linux n00b.
On my retired Vaio I started with Ubuntu like three months ago when Windows crashed, the drivers I downed from the "help centre" did not work and there was no support at all from Sony (it did not come with boot cd's when I bought it new). I fiddled around a bit with musescore, realy liked the opensource concept and yesterday a friend and I managed to get Ubuntu studio running on my new(er) Dell latitude. I hope to be able to continue recording stuff now since I had not been albe to get Jack working on my Vaio.
I am still a bit uncertain about starting with Rosegarden or Ardour.

So for me there is a lot to learn, but if I could contribute in a way let me know.
Luck & light oNNo

...if you're interested in my tunes you'll find them here

[Pablo]

Welcome Onno!

As you are a guitar player, have a look at rakarrack and guitarix too! If you are recording audio only, ardour is a better choice than rosegarden imho.

Look at this if you want to know more about apps and linux audio in general: http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/

Feel free to ask if you get stuck. We are a friendly community. Very nice music, by the way!

Pablo

[autostatic]

Hello Onno, welcome! Nice to see more Dutch people around here

Groet,

Jeremy

[raboof]

welkom

[MattKingUSA]

Welcome to the forum mate, I have issues with Jack too. I have to kill all of my audio apps for it to work. Even if I have Amarok or kmix running it won't work. It's annoying and I pretty much hate having to run it. You have come to the right place to be successful with Linux audio.

[oNNogitaar]

Thank you all!
recently we moved to Berlin.

If you are recording audio only, ardour is a better choice than rosegarden imho.

If I do not record the whole band at once I usualy work like this:
-record a guitar part
-make a tempotrack
-enter all instruments as midi > softsynths
-record all guitar parts
-replace the midi instruments one by one

I have issues with Jack too.

The issues I had were when I tried to make jack work in "normal"(?) Ubuntu. Now I installed studio everything works fine so far...
Take care! oNNo

[zwenny]

Thank you all!
recently we moved to Berlin.

Willkommen in Deutschland

My recording process is similar.
I'm using Hydrogen (drum machine) for drums,
TuxGuitar (tabeditor) for writing scores for MIDI Instruments,
which are exported as midi file and then played with seq24 (MIDI player),
finally record the whole stuff and the guitar tracks step by step with ardour (DAW).

I'm not working with Rosegarden, but know it's a real good score editor.
I will stay with TuxGuitar because i'm not good at reading music notes
and i am better off with tabulatures. Anyway the Rosegarden project
has some documentation: http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/wiki/
and Ubuntu Studio, too: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio
These are first places to go and if you are stucked with it you can
ask here, of course.

[oNNogitaar]

okay I am stuck,
I am trying to use my Echo Audiofire 12 in Ubuntu studio. It looks like it is not found. I do not seem to be able to run the echomixer eiher...
I have a Dell latitude D630 with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Lucid Lynx
would this http://www.anetservices.biz/echoaudio make sence for me?
Also I found this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=481992
If I start JACK, in audio connections only the internal soundports are displayed and in Alsa there is only midi through.

Willkommen in Deutschland

Danke schoen, sind sie auch in Berlin?

[autostatic]

okay I am stuck,
I am trying to use my Echo Audiofire 12 in Ubuntu studio. It looks like it is not found. I do not seem to be able to run the echomixer eiher...
I have a Dell latitude D630 with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Lucid Lynx
would this http://www.anetservices.biz/echoaudio make sence for me?

No, that is about the Layla, a PCI card. The AudioFire12 is a fully supported by FFADO FireWire card (that's because Echo is a Linux friendly company, hats off to them!). So you need to install all the ffado related packages. Also, FireWIre cards will only work with JACK. FireWire cards use the FFADO driver stack/backend, not the ALSA one.

Also I found this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=481992

That's about the Gina, another PCI card, so not applicable.

It's best to start here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FireWire
That should get you going. If not we're eager to help you out over here, the more Linux musicians, the better!

Best,

Jeremy

[oNNogitaar]

thanks Yeremy! I will check that out

[zwenny]

Danke schoen, sind sie auch in Berlin?

Nein aus in der Nähe von Düsseldorf, aber vielleicht zieh ich bald
nach Berlin, dann könnte man ja mal ne Runde Gitarre jamen

Back to your problem. There are related 5 packages:

1. ffado-dbus-server
   FFADO D-Bus server
2. ffado-mixer-qt4
   FFADO D-Bus mixer applets (QT4)
3. ffado-tools
   FFADO debugging and firmware tools
4. libffado-dev
   FFADO API - development files
5. libffado2
   FFADO API

expcept the -dev package you may need all of them.
the easiest way installing them is via apt-get.
Open a terminal and execute the following:

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get install ffado-mixer-qt4

the other packages should be installed by dependencies.

[oNNogitaar]

Thank you!
I did your command. It says it is already there...

"Pakketlijsten worden ingelezen... Klaar
Boom van vereisten wordt opgebouwd
De status informatie wordt gelezen... Klaar
ffado-mixer-qt4 is reeds de nieuwste versie.
0 pakketten opgewaardeerd, 0 pakketten nieuw geïnstalleerd, 0 te verwijderen en 0 niet opgewaardeerd."

[oNNogitaar]

Well I made some progress:
I followed Jeremy's link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FireWire
First I did as described here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudioControls
I set memlock to 60% and nice to -12 (I was not sure about that, I have 4gig ram)
In advanced settings the box to allow audio devices was checked (under users and groups)

<username@computername>:~$ ls -al /dev/raw1394
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 171, 0 2010-10-26 12:09 /dev/raw1394
<username@computername>:~$ groups
<username> adm dialout cdrom audio plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare

I opened Jack>Setup

* Driver: firewire (This selects the Ffado drivers)
* Interface: hw:0
* Audio:Duplex
under parameters * I checked the "Realtime" box
* Priority: 70
* Frames/Period: 128
* Sample Rate: 44100
* Periods/Buffer: 2

sudo gedit /etc/default/rtirq
RTIRQ_NAME_LIST="rtc ohci1394 snd usb i8042"
RTIRQ_NON_THREADED="rtc ohci1394 snd"

It seems to be running but after some seconds Jack stops by itself...

( is there a command to make Linux ask for a confirmation to delete things)

[oNNogitaar]

aus in der Nähe von Düsseldorf, aber vielleicht zieh ich bald
nach Berlin, dann könnte man ja mal ne Runde Gitarre jamen

Das waere gemuetlich, mit ein Jever dazu... Wir wohnen 200mtr sud von Checkpoint Charlie
Bis bald, Tschjuss!

[zwenny]

I opened Jack>Setup

* Driver: firewire (This selects the Ffado drivers)
* Interface: hw:0
* Audio:Duplex
under parameters * I checked the "Realtime" box
* Priority: 70
* Frames/Period: 128
* Sample Rate: 44100
* Periods/Buffer: 2

Are you using QJackCtl? If you do, you may get X-Runs (shown as a red Number in the OSD of QJackCtl).
You need to tweak settings until you get less or even no X-Runs.
There is a wiki entry: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToJACKConfiguration
and a more for getting started: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudioPreparation.

If you don't have QjackCtl, install it with apt-get. It makes trying out jack server preferences much easier.