Kubuntu Studio?

[rothchild]

Re: Kubuntu Studio?

I installed UbuntuStudio on my Kubuntu box ok, as with all of these programs you can still run all the GTK apps in Kde as well as the lowlatency kernel.

If you want to install UbuntuStudio on an already running machine you should be aware that there are extra repositories to add before you can draw in all the right packages.

The other thing you can do when you install it is create your self another user to help keep things a bit seperate (I.e. you can keep your menus tidy etc)

Ardour is getting better but anyone who wants a really good DAW for Linux would do well to look at 'Reaper' from Cockos Systems (the guy who originally wrote winamp I believe) it's a very well thought out app and runs well under WINE using the Jack to ASIO driver

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[rothchild]

Re: Kubuntu Studio?

I'm thinking of giving Studio64 a try this weekend. I also much prefer not to use Jack..

I think you're going to have a hard time avoiding using Jack, one of the disadvantages of the modularity of linux is that you need a patchbay to join up all the individual elements, this is what Jack provides.

So for instance you can sequence paterns in Hydrogen have your midi tracks controlled by Rosegarden but played out of a rack of seperate softsyths like Zynsub or Bristol etc and track it all in to Ardour where you've recorded and edited your live instruments etc.

The biggest blow I've come across so far is that xine does not output to Jack as so using Amarok on your studio box becomes a significant PITA.

Apparently this is going to be fixed in KDE4 with Phonon but it can't come soon enough IMO

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[Fintan]

Re: Kubuntu Studio?

@rothshild. Well that sounds promising. Could you let us know how you managed that feat? I mean a short how-to would be beneficlial to the rest of us

Thank you and cheers
F

[rothchild]

Re: Kubuntu Studio?

Hi Fintan

It really is very simple (honest, if I can do it anyone can!)

(although I should include the caveat that I don't yet use Linux for any of my 'serious' music / recording work, I'm too tied to Cakewalk Sonar for that and also there will never be FOSS drivers for my oldschool Yamaha DSP soundcards which I don't want to give up so I have to stay Windoze at the moment for that stuff :-( )

All I did was add the additional UbuntuStudio repositories to my /etc/apt/sources.list file and saved it (you can do it in Synaptic to through 'manage repositories')

EDIT: You can also do it as per the instructions on the website (http://www.ubuntustudio.org/downloads):

Ubuntu Studio Repository
Here's how to get access to our repository.

From a terminal run these 2 commands:

sudo su -c 'echo deb http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio feisty main >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
wget -q http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update



Then did an update and used synaptic to search for 'studio' (or 'ubuntu-studio' maybe?) I selected all of the relevant packages that appeared (I think I also looked at the package details and made sure I was drawing in all the 'suggested' and 'recommended' packages too).

Then I let Synaptic install them all and rebooted (so that I'd be running on the Lowlatency Kernel).

Upon restarting all of the apps were available to me in KDE (although you may need to fanny about with Jack a bit using the qjackctl app).

If you want to check out the full Gnome version simply log out of KDE and select Gnome in the KDM 'Session Type' menu, then log in, Simple.

If you decide that for doing multimedia you can handle Gnome (it's not that bad!) then you can set up a different user acct so that you can edit you KDE menu (as your regular username) not to be totally bloated with all new apps etc and then create a 'studio' acct which you'll use when you boot Gnome for a multimedia session. (this is probably unnecessary but I'm a bit anal about not having cluttered menus! ;-))

Hope this helps
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[Fintan]

Re: Kubuntu Studio?

Okay and thanks. I'll give that a swing

The idea with the studio user makes a lot of sense

Cheers
F

[rothchild]

Re: Kubuntu Studio?

Cool, Good Luck!

If anyone is interested there is a really good walkthrough about how to get Reaper running under WINE with the WINEASIO driver here: http://www.davehayes.org/2007/04/27/...with-wineasio/

Enjoy
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[Bongo5HH]

Re: Kubuntu Studio?

Thanks Child!

Kev