Does anyone have any advice for setting up a music creation and recording system? I am not much of a musician, but it seems that this shouldn't be that difficult.
I am having a hard time wrapping my head around how things are supposed to interconnect. JACK, ALSA, PulseAudio, Pulsewire, MIDI, it is a bit confusing and it doesn't help that each app seams to have its own naming convention and dependancies. I am working with an i5 machine that Win11 rejected, it has onboard sound, onboard video, 8G of RAM and a fairly quiet 1T spinning plater drive. My first attempt was to install Debian with the Mate DE. I opened "synaptic" and did a search for "music", then proceeded to select all of the stuff that looked useful or interesting. The result was rather disappointing, a lot of the apps run, but don't produce sound. I spent some time trying to configure things, but met with very limited success. Then I discovered UbuntuStudio, but ended up in the same boat, with some apps that will not produce sound. Is there a better distribution? Is there an app combination that works well together? Thanks, -- Derek Loree <[email protected]>
