KVR Audio

stylesforfree · Post by **stylesforfree** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:38 am

Ive read alot of the posts. And im convinced. I want to convert. im currently in new zealand travelling and im going to buy a laptop and install linux on it, maybe xubuntu or the one that renoise heads use. Transmission I think its called. but my main problem is my audio interface, which is an edirol UA 4fx. I think yuou have all converted me though and I shall carry on reading the posts for more info. Pz

koalaboy · Post by **koalaboy** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:14 am

I'd happily convert if I could use most of my VSTs, along with my UAD-2 and Sonic-Core cards. Unfortunately, the latter is unlikely to ever happen.

rpm · Post by **rpm** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:27 pm

Hi,
I just got a great 64-bit PC, but of course it came with Win7. I'm looking to set up my first linux home studio with this.

1) My audio interface is Phonic Firefly 302 USB. Previously, I was discouraged about using linux for audio because my soundcard didn't seem to be supported (and didn't work with Ubuntu Studio). But I heard on Phonic's website that people have gotten it to work. I don't know how to start though. What do I do to make it work?

2) For work, I use Ubuntu. For studio, what would you recommend? I'd like a RT kernel, lightweight desktop distro.

cheers.

SE_Newbie · Post by **SE_Newbie** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:50 pm

Try Puppy Studio (formerly known as Ubuntu Studio Puppy Edition). It is based on Puppy Linux and has a RT kernel. My ProducerPup does not have the RT kernel. I'm not sure how well Linux works with USB audio interfaces, so I cannot answer that part of the question for you. I have had trouble with audio configuration using Ubuntu as it doesn't use the usual ALSA Configurator script, but Puppy has worked with almost any sound hardware I've used it with. You might want to check Phonic's website and see if they have a linux driver available. If so, they would be likely to have it for Ubuntu, as it is very popular for a linux distro.

ParadoxUn · Post by **ParadoxUn** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:15 am

PS: If you really want to push the latencies low, try compiling a kernel, without iommus, without debugging, excessive security, and other stuff you don't use. I pushed mine down to 0.363 ms, however it was using a lot of cpu.. And yeah highest level of preemption.

bachmaninoff · Post by **bachmaninoff** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 2:48 am

I've had interesting results using a vanilla Ubuntu (10.10) on a non-rt kernel using an i3-350M laptop (Sony VAIO VPCEC22FX). I was playing around with Renoise 2.7.0b4 with TAL NoiseMaker (kxstudio version) and I sensed no delay from hitting the keys to hearing sound over the headphones. I opened Renoise up via a terminal using sudo, and it was able to establish an ALSA-RT thread. No configuration on my part, it 'just worked'.

Renoise LOG> ALSA: Using samplerate 44100 (requested 44100) for Playback...
Renoise LOG> ALSA: Using period time 512 (requested 512) for Playback...
Renoise LOG> ALSA: Using 4 num periods (requested 4) for Playback...
Renoise LOG> ALSA: Using buffer size 2048 (requested 2048)...

Renoise LOG> ALSA: Successfully created an ALSA RT thread

It played smoothly, even when I sequenced some backup from additional instances of NoiseMaker. I feel as though I'm almost there. I can use Renoise for pattern stuff, now just need a linear based option that's just as easy to setup...

Jazz Franco · Post by **Jazz Franco** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:53 am

I decided to try Ubuntu w/ EnergyXT on my Samsung netbook. As I'm a complete Linux noobie, need some advice: should I opt for the netbook specific Ubuntu build or just install the regular version?
Thanks to everyone in advance!

bachmaninoff · Post by **bachmaninoff** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 12:35 am

Jazz Franco wrote:I decided to try Ubuntu w/ EnergyXT on my Samsung netbook. As I'm a complete Linux noobie, need some advice: should I opt for the netbook specific Ubuntu build or just install the regular version?
Thanks to everyone in advance!

For a netbook you'll need every ounce of processing power you can squeeze out of it, so I'd go with the netbook edition of Ubuntu...

stanlea · Post by **stanlea** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 6:16 am

In my view, the best audio distro nowadays is TangoStudio, because it's clean, standards compliant and ready to work.
Unfortunately, the site is in french.

http://tangostudio.tuxfamily.org/

Jazz Franco · Post by **Jazz Franco** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:35 am

bachmaninoff wrote:
Jazz Franco wrote:I decided to try Ubuntu w/ EnergyXT on my Samsung netbook. As I'm a complete Linux noobie, need some advice: should I opt for the netbook specific Ubuntu build or just install the regular version?
Thanks to everyone in advance!
For a netbook you'll need every ounce of processing power you can squeeze out of it, so I'd go with the netbook edition of Ubuntu...

Thanks! Did install it yesterday, it's wonderful! Not sure if I ever move my whole audio production (desktop based) to Linux, but I certainly like it more, at least for usual netbook routine.

midischool · Post by **midischool** » Tue May 17, 2011 11:24 am

Tango studio is indeed nice if you can get beyond the french!

camsr · Post by **camsr** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:35 pm

Using Fedora and an Edirol FA66, working just fine so far for music playback in non RT mode. JACK is really cool as an effects rack in itself. Will have to experiment more.

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:49 pm

camsr wrote:Using Fedora and an Edirol FA66, working just fine so far for music playback in non RT mode. JACK is really cool as an effects rack in itself. Will have to experiment more.

Fedora is well supported for music production by the CCRMA folks. They put lots
of work into maintaining a fast stable kernel, and current repositories.

Another good audio choice is remixOS, which just released a new 64bit version
a couple days back. Reaper, wineasio, and liquorix RT kernel are default.

http://www.remix-os.org/

Cheers

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:10 pm

long established linux app fluidsynth moved to smartphone:

http://midi-clorianos.blogspot.com/2011 ... eased.html

Good to see code getting repurposed! Hope Guitarix is next

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:20 pm

One of the Rakarrack fx processor team works over a drumbeat for a few minutes

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