| studio-user786 | surprised people still use IRC. glad to see it still running | 05:38 |
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| pragomer | actually trying to switch from macbook&logicpro to free software on a linux-laptop. ardour works great. do you have any suggestions for quality natural software instruments / samples for piano and strings? | 05:58 |
| OvenWerk1 | pragomer: this is probably not the best channel to ask | 06:05 |
| pragomer | do you know a good channel or forum where could ask such things? | 06:05 |
| OvenWerk1 | try on #ardour but probably not right now as they are mostly UTC and easter | 06:06 |
| OvenWerk1 | east US | 06:06 |
| OvenWerk1 | The only two I know are fluid synth (should be a part of ardour as a-fluid synth or linux sampler. | 06:08 |
| OvenWerk1 | a-fluidsynth plays and sf2 sound fonts you can find. Linux sampler plays gigasampler and SFZ as well | 06:10 |
| pragomer | ok.. yesterday I discovered fluidsynth as player of soundfonts sf2.. so it could be the right way searching for good sf2 instruments. | 06:10 |
| pragomer | ah yes.. same tought at the same time :-9 | 06:10 |
| OvenWerk1 | probably. | 06:10 |
| OvenWerk1 | Linux sampler is not available as a package (unless on their own home page) so it needs to be built | 06:11 |
| pragomer | a 2nd and perhaps really ubuntustudio question for a linux-audio-newbie (on the non-audio-side I am ubuntuuser since 2007): | 06:11 |
| pragomer | in prior versions of ubuntu studio I always had to use the (for me complicated) jack-system, connecting these virtual cables and all stuff like this.. | 06:12 |
| pragomer | on the newest us 17.10 I could just open ardour, choose alsa as driver and I could play fluid synth and playback my loops, etc... | 06:12 |
| pragomer | does this mean jack and jack-driver is obsolete for me | 06:12 |
| OvenWerk1 | if you are using Ardour 5.* you can use it directly with alsa and no jack | 06:12 |
| pragomer | oh perfect... that was the conclusion I was getting to and what I hoped.. this is so much easier just with alsa.. thank god :-) | 06:13 |
| OvenWerk1 | You can get away without jack and in fact Ardour devs suggest running without jack. | 06:13 |
| pragomer | ok thats pretty cool ;-) | 06:14 |
| OvenWerk1 | :) I use jackd for my system and in fact use it as the device for pulse. But that doesn't mean you have to for sure. | 06:14 |
| OvenWerk1 | I have a custom startup script for my sessions which most people would find non-trivial. | 06:15 |
| OvenWerk1 | So if just using alsa works for you great. Do be warned that it is not possible to use two different audio devices such as a USB mic and system output. | 06:16 |
| OvenWerk1 | Jack doesn't really like it either but at least it is possible. | 06:17 |
| pragomer | ok.. I did not yet try both, playback and recording via my usb-interface focusrite scarlett 18i6 | 06:21 |
| pragomer | so there could come some surprises | 06:21 |
| OvenWerk1 | that should be fine, you are using the same interface for both in and out | 06:21 |
| pragomer | ah ok.. | 06:21 |
| OvenWerk1 | The problem is people buying those cheap "pro" USB mics | 06:22 |
| pragomer | but yesterday I discovered that I could play fluidsynth via my usb-keyboard (evolution mk-something...) but not while I press record.. but this can be a different problem. | 06:22 |
| OvenWerk1 | that is just routing. | 06:23 |
| OvenWerk1 | I don't rememeber the answer to that one... I am running a very alpha version of Ardour right now (6.0 alpha) which works different in that exact area. | 06:24 |
| OvenWerk1 | but do ask in #ardour. | 06:24 |
| pragomer | ok.. but thank you very much for your help. very kind. I hope I will get everything I need to work under linux so that this last "bastion" of non-free-software will fall too in the future in m y household ;-) | 06:29 |
| OvenWerk1 | anyway, I am off to bed. If there are more questions you can leave them and I will answer in the morning :) If you irc is still running | 06:33 |
| pragomer | thanks and goodnight (whereever u are). here in germany I just begun my day ;-) | 06:34 |
| OvenWerk1 | I am the west coast of Canada | 06:34 |
| OvenWerk1 | Its not real late (1035 pm) but I have to get up early tomorrow | 06:35 |
| pragomer | depending on someone's age 1035pm CAN be very late *LOL* | 06:37 |
| pragomer | cu | 06:37 |
| pragomer | mm. does it have licence-background that linuxsampler isnt part of ubuntu-studio like it is for example in kxstudio: http://i.imgur.com/AguT1Kf.png ? | 07:04 |
| studio-user524 | hello | 10:45 |
| OvenWerk1 | pragomer: linuxsampler has licencing that makes hard to package. LS is also harder to use having 16 outputs. | 15:56 |
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