=== kspencer is now known as IotaSpencer [02:29] anyone in here? [02:37] sort of, questions? [02:54] yes kz earbuds. any ideas on this brand? [02:58] what do you expect from them? I don't use ear buds at all as I find them uncomfortable and have poor sound. [02:58] So anything I have to say is probably not much use. [02:58] knowledge zenith is the name of the company. suppose to be premium budget headphones that out perform many others at much higher price points. [02:58] ? ask a hardware channel? seems a bit OT here ... [02:58] where can I ask? [02:59] google? [03:01] I am looking for 2nd opinions. I looked into it a bit. now i wanted to follow up on irc and see what I can find out. [03:02] and again: this is ubuntustudio support. [03:02] I seriously doubt that music producer uses earbuds in their workflow. [03:03] performers and producers do on stage and off [03:03] akg headphones are good though [03:04] but the preference is real headphones of course. [03:04] I like akg [03:04] do you mean in ear monitors then? [03:04] better than senheiser actually. the last set of senheiser studio head phones I had fell apart some how. [03:04] yes. [03:05] in my mind, earbuds and inear monitors are a logn ways apart, sorry. [03:05] agreed ^^^ [03:05] yes and I agree but I need compact for international travel. [03:06] off topic here. google "earbud recommendations" [03:06] or "travel earbuds" [03:06] this last run I just did over seas, 2 pairs got lost in the mix and 2 more pairs fell apart or got destroyed so all my good earphones are gone. I need new ones. [03:07] You might ask on the Linux Audio User Mailing list, but I would make sure to say you were using them as inear monitors [03:07] is there a channel for that or? [03:07] It would be off topic there too, but there are a number of people on there who do live audio work profesionally. [03:08] excellent. where do I find these people here on freenode? [03:08] A lot of them do not do IRC at all. [03:09] ehhh, why not. realtime chat is the tits when you need to inquire about things like this for example. [03:09] No idea, personal preference I guess. [03:09] ubuntu studio is pretty slick btw. [03:10] or you could go to your local guitar center and ask for recommendations. real-time, real-life and F2F [03:10] I would prefer to run it off a memory stick though for now. my hard drive is all hogged up with stuff. [03:10] I am glad you like it. [03:11] I have 64gb memory sticks. I can do ubuntu studio off a memory chip live without sacrificing too much right? [03:11] the other computer I was testing it on is too slow and its broken right now. [03:12] It depends on the RAM size to some extent and what kind of audio you are doing. [03:12] how much space is required for it? [03:12] not 64gb I am sure. [03:12] running from ram is always slower than a HDD install. once your start firing up ram intenseive apps, it will slow even more. [03:12] recording a number of tracks to "disk" may fail. [03:12] more like 4gb I am guessing. its been a while. [03:13] basically the whole song needs to fit in ram, so 10MB per minute, per track [03:14] About [03:14] (assuming 16bit audio at 48K [03:14] Most recording is done as 32 bit floats. [03:15] So double the space. [03:17] I would guess a discounted gaming computer with ssd and lots of ram is the best idea which I am getting that next. probably one of those razer blade laptops next. [03:17] in general laptops are slow. [03:18] what do you think of this one for a/v - http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-stealth [03:18] pretty damn slick laptops the razer people have [03:19] It is only two cores... kind of an i3 dressed up as an i7... (in my opinion) I would take a 4 core i5 if I could get that. [03:20] hyperthreading and boost/Turbo are of little use for serious audio. [03:21] (I turn them off in fact) [03:22] its still a slick laptop [03:22] very usable for my needs. [03:30] this one is quadcore - http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade [03:30] ficken 1799 though geeez... expensive [03:39] Thats better. I am not so sure of the video... it would be good for things that require video, but for everyday use in Linux, I would go intel which has open drivers and generally just suports Linux. nvidia is a goodsecond in that, they at least supply drivers, but closed. [03:41] Most people stay way from AMD as having the worst Linux support [03:41] agreed! ^^^ [04:19] intel still wins ever since they robbed dec and had to pay them off for it [04:57] dec is gone... [05:41] I wonder if someone here can help me with a problem I just encountered using Ubuntu Studio. I tried to add a menu item using "Menu Editor" under settings and now Whisker Menu only shows a fraction of my available programs, like it reverted to an Ubuntu standard menu file instead of the Ubuntu Studio list. If I use the search function at the top of the menu and search "gimp" I get no results, but I can run it and get gimp. [05:46] studio-user752: Ya, that menu editor is bad. [05:46] OvenWerks, looking for the whisker menu editor and don't see it ... [05:47] cfhowlett: try accessories [05:47] studio-user752: in a terminal try: [05:48] ls .config/menus/ [05:48] it should be empty, but I think that is where libremenu puts it's over ride [05:49] studio-user752: There are no known working 100% menu editors... besides manually. [05:51] alacart is the best one out there besides the one kde comes with, but it is kde only I think. [05:52] (the kde one is kde only, alacart is generic-ish) [05:54] .config/menus/ contains the file: xfce-applications.menu [05:55] studio-user752: if you delete that, the menu should revert. You can mv it to xfce-applications.unem to disable it. [05:56] Wow, that did the trick [05:56] (ie rename it if you don't want to loose it) [05:56] Thanks OvenWerks! [05:56] Ya, I creaed the studio menu... I learned the hard way [05:56] *created [05:57] Is there another way to edit the menu? [05:57] yes... it is not easy and requires knowing how the files work. [05:58] never mind then, I'll run from a terminal when I need to [05:59] if you look at /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/studio.menu [06:00] it will give some hints. you can put the same kind of thing into ~/.config/menus [06:00] what are you missing? [06:01] if you are trying to start a program from the menu that isn't there, creating a desktop file for it and adding that to ~/.local/share/applications/ [06:01] should do it. [06:01] ok [06:03] depending on the categories you add it will be added to different places. (Audio or muti-media for example for audio.) [06:03] I am going to have to run, be back tomorrow. [06:04] thanks again for the help [18:21] Anyone here have experience with RME hammerfall channels coming up wrong? [18:22] i verified in ardour and audacity that it happens. [20:11] anyone ever seen ardour inputs one off and only working on even channels? [20:18] Jinx-IT: I have not, but I have very few audio interfaces, mostly PCI plus one USB 1.1 [20:19] it's weird...outputs work fine. i have an older rme hammerfall with 3 ADA8000 units connected. [20:20] it all worked on a version of Ubuntu Studio that was about 4 years old, but i decided i should wipe and get the latest and greatest... [20:20] i also fired up audacity and found that the channels are off there as well. [20:21] now, when i connect channels 1-24, only the EVEN physical inputs work, but appear on the next ODD input down...so 8 goes to 7, etc. [20:22] i am running the x64 build...maybe i should install the x86 build