[00:00] <aloo_shu> I was just told
[00:00] <OvenWerks> Ubuntustudio has not had the manpower to keep backs up to date.
[00:00] <aloo_shu> I have 5.12 in other versions, i.e. AVLinux and Xenial+kxstudio
[00:01] <aloo_shu> OvenWerks: yep, I've read it on the ubuntustudio blog
[00:02] <aloo_shu> ardour devs in general do not invite ppl to use anything then the newest stable obtained from them, not a distro - unless they want to test and/or compile
[00:04] <OvenWerks> That only makes sense considering they don't fix old releases, the fix is in the new release
[00:04] <ErichEickmeyer> aloo_shu: If you would like to help by keeping packages up-to-date, we could use the help. :)
[00:04] <aloo_shu> in my experience, bugs come in in the same measure as they are getting fixed, with end-of-series releases maybe having slighly better maturity
[00:05] <OvenWerks> I would agree that 6.0 might be a release to avoid.
[00:07] <aloo_shu> I'd love to, but live in a solar household w/ only hours worth of energy in the batts, and I am hard pressed to keep my music recording going with all the updates, things like ardour 5 eating up older ardour's session files without prompting (ardour 4 at least made backups)
[00:08] <OvenWerks> I did not have that problem, my old sessions were kept and I was told that they were renamed.
[00:09] <aloo_shu> 4 did that, maybe early 5s, too
[00:10] <aloo_shu> but latter 5s didn't even bother, afaik - rgareus recommended me to back up manually
[00:13] <aloo_shu> what would be seriously interesting would be digging into the sources for versions that do not get released, namely the ones that serve as a basis for mixbus releases - I think the mix of features vs. stability is way more conservative there
[00:16] <aloo_shu> there are many other ways in which ardour simply galloped off - the NON-DAW for instance had gone out of its way to implement ardour 3 session import, somebody wrote a working OSC remote FLOSS app , ardroid - all of it got obsoleted
[00:19] <aloo_shu> the 5.12 's I currently use do randomly (cannot clearly reproduce) hang or crash when using the pitch shift feature (mixbus does it fine)
[00:20] <aloo_shu> last thing that happened was that ardour took the entire session folder with it when I had to kill -9 it.
[00:22] <aloo_shu> what happens more regularly is that the automatic session backup at 2m intervals hasn't happened <-- long standing
[00:25] <aloo_shu> another 5 series specific one is changes in the track playlists not reflecting in the gui, i.e. typically pasted regions, duplicated track content etc. not showing, but playing - saving and restarting fixes that
[00:26] <aloo_shu> now you might think why's the guy ranting, but by #ardour, anything not bought-by-donation/subscription from them is not their business
[00:27] <OvenWerks> true but the 5.12 in Studio is pretty much the same.
[00:28] <OvenWerks> generally one can get help on the #ardour channel for "how to" questions no matter hwere the application came from.
[01:21] <aloo_shu> I had too much one day and dropped it from my auto-join list
[01:21] <aloo_shu> I roughly do know 'how to'
[01:22] <aloo_shu> and I've painstakingly helped people to build offline manuals
[01:23] <aloo_shu> the problem is that ardour whimsically changes 'how to'
[01:24] <aloo_shu> I'd rather have them make a thing that works and doesn't change, than amiably getting the changes explained after another frustrating 2 hours of no headway made in my creative process
[11:31] <vlt> Hi all! On the weekend I used a fresh Ubuntu Studio 18.04 to play a linuxsampler instrument with a jack buffer size of 128 samples (2.9 ms) and had one instance of jack_mixer running for one mic.
[11:31] <vlt> I averaged around 1 xrun in 3 minutes.
[11:32] <vlt> I'd like to make that more robust. What can I do to reduce xruns? What on the system could be disturbing the processes needed for audio?
[12:03] <SlidingHorn> Do I need to do anything special to use NVENC encoding with OBS-studio?  According to its log files it says "NVENC Supported" - does that mean it's checked to see if everything it needs is available?
[13:15] <studio-user660> JOIN
[15:21] <OvenWerks> vlt: need more info. what kind of audio interface are you using?
[15:21] <OvenWerks> is it USB or internal?
[18:26] <ErichEickmeyer> OvenWerks: He went to #jack and got his answer.
[18:42] <vlt> OvenWerks: The audio device (also handling MIDI) is a Native Instruments KA 6 (USB).
[18:42] <vlt> OvenWerks: And yes, I got some great advice from #jack and try to optimize my setup.#
[20:56] <ErichEickmeyer> SlidingHorn: I haven't played around with OBS enough. I really should as live video production is part of my job. I know my co-worker has.
[23:55] <studio-user493> is my hardware out of date or the new ubuntu studio keeps crashing?
[23:55] <studio-user493> 18.04 is what i installed
[23:55] <studio-user493> 18.10*