[14:09] <audiomoose> good day. please can anyone guess why my distro of 14.04.4 u.studio, 64bit, started logging me out of my desktop session every time i started firefox, following a recent udate/
[14:09] <audiomoose> ? it seems fixed now with a reinstall. just for your interest.
[14:13] <audiomoose> say, how good is jack's management of session restoration these days? it was flimsy last time I tried it some years ago.
[14:13] <OvenWerks> audiomoose: I can't guess at all, though I can report that 14.04.4 does not have that problem here.
[14:15] <audiomoose> thanks buddy
[14:16] <OvenWerks> I have not used session management really. Ardour is pretty monolithic these days.
[14:16] <cfhowlett> seems to be in danger of being removed from the default ubuntustudio
[14:16] <OvenWerks> This is just showing that I don't do much in the way of electronic music probably. Most of my stuff is recorded instruments.
[14:18] <OvenWerks> cfhowlett: which one (package) are you thinking of?
[14:18] <cfhowlett> the ardour packages.  I understand from a thread on the mailing list that it is / will be removed from 16.04??
[14:19] <audiomoose> thanks
[14:19] <OvenWerks> cfhowlett: I have not seen that. Ardour is in 16.04... not ardour3 though.
[14:19] <cfhowlett> perhaps that was it
[14:20] <cfhowlett> do!  nevermind OvenWerks.  I just checked the list and audacious is under discussion, not ardour.  sorry for the misinformation
[14:21] <OvenWerks> cfhowlett: :)
[14:25] <audiomoose> do any of you here have a preference for session storage, say if you have to turn the machine off and need to get back to exactly how things were? how's that going these days?
[14:26] <cfhowlett> settings > session and startup > save session
[14:27] <audiomoose> smart, thanks
[14:27] <cfhowlett> happy2help! audiomoose
[14:30] <audiomoose> getting 'studio stable here is vital, so i'll be hanging out a bit.
[14:31] <cfhowlett> always happy to see users here.
[14:31] <jbermudes> How are the non-LTS releases for Ubuntu Studio stability-wise?
[14:31] <cfhowlett> jbermudes, functional.
[14:32] <cfhowlett> bleeding edges are bloody.  I have been LTS only for years.  Fewer headaches
[14:32] <OvenWerks> jbermudes: it really depends on the rest of ubuntu (vanilla in particular)
[14:33] <jbermudes> I'm wondering if maybe if I move to 15.10 to see if maybe I can get this pesky Tascam US16x08 to work. The 4x4 version works, but for some reason this bigger model seems to be weird under Linux, despite it being advertised as class-compliant
[14:33] <OvenWerks> with audio SW things are changing fast enough I end up building some things to keep up.
[14:33] <OvenWerks> jbermudes: just dl 16.04
[14:33] <jbermudes> OvenWerks: betas scare me even more than non-lts releases :P
[14:34] <cfhowlett> this!  ^^
[14:34] <OvenWerks> I have been running the unrealeased 16.04 on my wifes machine for months.
[14:34] <OvenWerks> only 3 weeks before it is the next LTS
[14:35] <jbermudes> and hopefully it'll be a very productive 3 weeks for the bugfixing team :)
[14:35] <OvenWerks> The only thing to watch for that I know of is don't use the systray options for qjackctl
[14:37] <jbermudes> I'd prefer to stick with this 4x4 audio interface because it just works in 14.04 but the downside is that it's a bit too tall to be rackmounted in 1U :(
[14:37] <jbermudes> Nor is it even wide enough
[14:44] <audiomoose> so is anyone here running 14.04.4 LTS AMD64 ? My version suffers from missing font characters right from the installation screens.
[14:44] <audiomoose> and this repeatable logout when browser launched
[14:44] <jbermudes> I'm running it, but I installed it back when it was 12.04 and upgraded to 14.04
[14:45] <audiomoose> thanks. ah well it'll crack in the end
[19:46] <audiomoose> is this a good place to ask about qtractor problems, or is there a more dedicated channel? jack is passing midi piano notes to a soft synth ok, but qtractor's not able to record them.
[20:08] <zequence> audiomoose: Check out #opensourcemusicians
[20:09] <zequence> I would guess you need to connect the softsynth to the audio channel you are recording to
[20:09] <zequence> Using something like qjackctl
[20:23] <j09> hey guys, folks from #ubuntu suggested i look here for advice. On my steam games and flash videos, the audio is about a full second behind the visual. Would anyone know what I could do to investigate this?
[22:16] <audiomoose> hey thanks zequence, will do. glad to report qtractor is recording midi input now: its internal midi routing window needed a refresh. good to see you again buddy, it's been a few years!
[22:17] <audiomoose> off to bed ... thanks for all the help here today, much appreciated :D