| bobbycheetah | hi. apologies in advance for the lengthy questions. i have an older pc (not crazy old, still 64bit) that I would like to put ubuntustudio on. Do I still go for the latest release or choose an older release? If older release, what are the main hw specs i should use to determine which release? My main goal on this machine is get audacity working solidly so that I can begin project o | 19:44 |
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| bobbycheetah | f digitizing my LP records. So is ubuntustudio overkill? Currently, i'm using MX Linux and having an aggravating time between it and audacity. | 19:44 |
| wonko | OvenWerks: Ok, universal wallwart doing its jobs nicely. The AF4 is now working on the mac | 20:56 |
| wonko | no drivers installed or anything, just out of the box | 20:56 |
| wonko | I wonder if/how I can change the frame and period | 20:56 |
| wonko | Ok, I don't know how to use QjackCtl on osx at all | 21:07 |
| _puddle_ | catia is an option? | 21:15 |
| OvenWerks | bobbycheetah: I don't know MX Linux at all, but | 21:15 |
| OvenWerks | _puddle_: catia is an option for what? | 21:15 |
| _puddle_ | change frame/period | 21:15 |
| _puddle_ | just a thought, i have only used a hackintiosh a bit | 21:16 |
| wonko | I'm going to try to use jack on osx | 21:16 |
| wonko | we'll see how it goes. :) | 21:16 |
| OvenWerks | _puddle_: you have to get JACK running in the first place though | 21:16 |
| _puddle_ | i was under the impression it was | 21:17 |
| OvenWerks | The act of starting jack should be able to set latency | 21:17 |
| _puddle_ | true enough | 21:17 |
| OvenWerks | bobbycheetah: recording audio to a wave file (can be compressed to ogg, mp3, whatever) can be done by any number of apps. | 21:18 |
| OvenWerks | bobbycheetah: audacity should work just fine | 21:19 |
| wonko | hmm, is jack kinda crap on osx? now this laptop crashes | 21:19 |
| OvenWerks | wonko: I don't know from experience (not having the the price of entry) but I do know people do use jack on the mac because someone went to the trouble of getting mcpdisp to run on it. | 21:21 |
| wonko | Well, it might be Mixxx as well, which runs like absolute crap | 21:23 |
| wonko | and I can't seem to get it to talk to jack anyway, the options are CoreAudio or None | 21:23 |
| OvenWerks | bobbycheetah: what problem have you had with audacity? | 21:23 |
| OvenWerks | wonko: it may not show jack if it is not running | 21:24 |
| wonko | it was running | 21:24 |
| wonko | also, the crash backtrace shows the firewire extension as the reason the kernel paniced on the mac. Which is not a positive thing I don't think? | 21:24 |
| OvenWerks | wonko: the person who did the mcpdisp build may not have used fw | 21:29 |
| OvenWerks | but I suspect that there is no ffado drivers for mac or at least you have to have something built for the kernel involved | 21:30 |
| wonko | Ok, so I can get jack started. It makes audio all crackly when it's running (using an app that is still talking to CoreAudio) | 21:36 |
| wonko | I cannot for the life of me get an app that works with JACK on OSX | 21:36 |
| wonko | Also, I'm pretty sure Mixxx was trying to do something dumb with FW | 21:37 |
| wonko | that is almost certainly what was causing it to crash, so I deleted that. | 21:37 |
| bobbycheetah | it is flaking out too much. It took forever to stumble on the correct device (and still don't know how i did it) to get sound to work. Then when i did, the next recording i tried to make it stopped again working again. i know that's very genric, but it's hard to explain. it's like "you had to be there to witness it's behavior” so I started thinking - maybe there is a diff dis | 21:39 |
| bobbycheetah | tro that works better with audacity. if so, should i focus on a release that matches up with my existing hw config. | 21:39 |
| OvenWerks | bobbycheetah: what sample rate and buffer size do you use? | 22:15 |
| bobbycheetah | i don't see sample rate setting. i see sample project setting which is 44100 by default. my main issue is trying to get sound. I can see in the pulse gui that sound it making it in, but nothing coming from the speakers. | 22:31 |
| OvenWerks | I don't think audacity does sound out while recording. | 22:31 |
| bobbycheetah | it does when you use the "monitoring" option | 22:37 |
| OvenWerks | Ah, ok. Are you using the same Audio device for input and output? | 22:37 |
| bobbycheetah | that way you can play the LP, hit pauxe then hit record, so you can check levels. | 22:37 |
| bobbycheetah | input is turntable -> phono preamp (ARTcesoories) -> to the linux box via USB. | 22:38 |
| bobbycheetah | output would be via the soundcard - like used normally and can hear sound while in youtube, or listeing to mp3, etc. | 22:39 |
| OvenWerks | That may be a problem as they can not be properly synced. | 22:40 |
| bobbycheetah | the list of input devices that show in audacity is ridiculous. i pic one, try it, pick another, try it, each time you have to use the "scan/discover devices" eventually I lucked out and the one i picked worked. | 22:41 |
| OvenWerks | You may be better of using JACK as a back end for pulse | 22:41 |
| bobbycheetah | i'm gonna jump off here. i'm going at add 8gb mem tmrw. (total of 16). | 22:41 |
| OvenWerks | with studio-controls you can set that up | 22:42 |
| bobbycheetah | i tried using jack, but totally lost with it. | 22:42 |
| bobbycheetah | or i may just say screw it and go back to using my Mac. I just figured, i had a Linux box to do the job. | 22:43 |
| bobbycheetah | *had a linux box that was competent to do the job. | 22:43 |
| OvenWerks | It has been a long time since I tried a vinyl transcribe | 22:43 |
| bobbycheetah | the other chat i'm in, they recommended going back a kernel in mx linux. so i may goof around with that. | 22:44 |
| bobbycheetah | linux in general - no matter what distro i've tried, there's always something that just is a pita to get working. thanks every one for your time and advice! | 22:45 |
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