Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] I'd like to install the AMD propriety drivers to see if I can fix this prob.

2014-08-10 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Sat, 9 Aug 2014 12:36:21 -0400 schrieb Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com: one trick i use is, i'll fire up a knoppix live CD or puppy and use the wizard to try and force the desktop into the geometry i want.. You can also try to add new modes that were not detected automatially:

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Questions about production

2014-07-27 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:07:32 +0530 schrieb Shubham Mishra mishrashubham2...@gmail.com: a first gen i3 and 3 GB RAM. This is plenty of computing power for audio. A Pentium-M 1.4GHz with 2 GiB RAM was plenty, too. My current laptop is a Core2Duo (OK, with 8 Gig, but those are not in use for

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] [ot] Suggestions for a notebook for music.

2014-02-11 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:23:07 -0500 schrieb Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com: The thinkpad I have, T60, doesn't have a texas instruments FireWire chipset, making it inappropriate for FireWire devices in Linux for audio production. Firewire audio worked fine with my old X31. Wasn't with TI

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Need a CLI command to recursively copy my home folder.

2013-10-31 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:05:07 + (GMT) schrieb Alex Armani alex.arm...@rocketmail.com: What I'd like to do, is copy all the contents of home/alex to sda7 then remove sda6, move sda7 so that it is next to sda2 and install UB13.10 from scratch.  So I figure I can login as guest, CTRL ALT

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Upgrading

2013-10-21 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Mon, 21 Oct 2013 05:11:10 -0300 schrieb Gord L Williams i...@gordlwilliams.com: I successfully upgraded from 13.04 to 13.10 via update. It took me a couple of tries though as update told me I had to have so much space on my /boot partition. I had to revive a laptop that got the package

Re: Syncing Jack in multiple machines

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:54:05 +0530 schrieb Abhayadev S abhayad...@gmail.com: Hi, Anyways to sync jack running in multiple machines? I have a video player in my laptop (QJadeo) to be synced with the Jack in my desktop. is it possible via network (OSC)? http://netjack.sourceforge.net/ does

Horrific jackd xrun behaviour after upgrade from US 10.04 to 12.04 (Re: R: Audio issues in 10.04)

2012-09-18 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:30:49 +0200 schrieb Thomas Orgis thomas-fo...@orgis.org: Please post the output of $ /etc/init.d/rtirq status Will try to get to that tonight. Well ... this is interesting. I tried AVLinux and this also showed massive xruns, with the added twist of ffado giving up

Re: Horrific jackd xrun behaviour after upgrade from US 10.04 to 12.04 (Re: R: Audio issues in 10.04)

2012-09-18 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:37:21 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net: Change the config to RTIRQ_NAME_LIST=rtc [and add anything as it was before, excepted of a second rtc entry] PS: After editing the config stop and start might not do the job and a reboot could be

Horrific jackd xrun behaviour after upgrade from US 10.04 to 12.04

2012-09-17 Thread Thomas Orgis
Hi, the subject says it all ... I had an install of 10.04 that worked. Only issue seemed to be instability when recording while a USB drive is connected. So, considering that perhaps this is a sign to replace a mainboard with broken onboard USB (used a PCI add-on card, which might have worsened

Re: R: Audio issues in 10.04

2012-09-17 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:12:40 +0200 (CEST) schrieb brian.coll...@alice.it brian.coll...@alice.it: Hello Thomas, I use KXStudio on top of UbuntuStudio, but the 12.04 version. I think there is some misunderstanding: I don't have the issues with 10.04 but with 12.04. But thanks for the pointer to

Re: Horrific jackd xrun behaviour after upgrade from US 10.04 to 12.04

2012-09-17 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:15:58 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net: PS: CPU frequency scaling? I noted that it is independent of that. I switched to 'performance' governor and nothing changed. Also, my experience with working setups is that frequency scaling does not matter to

Re: R: Audio issues in 10.04

2012-09-17 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:11:53 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net: Please post the output of $ /etc/init.d/rtirq status Will try to get to that tonight. Alrighty then, Thomas signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list

Audio interface analysis (AD/DA performance, preamp quality)

2012-08-02 Thread Thomas Orgis
Hi folks, just a quick and hopefully easy question: What tool is there for Linux/JACK to do measurements of audio interface performance, comparable to what RightMark Audio Analyzer does? I'd like to measure data as displayed on http://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20080728/44k.htm (at

Re: Sound cards (Was: Re: no sound

2011-05-20 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Fri, 20 May 2011 13:54:57 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net: When recording soft synth just by JACK, without the sound cards being involved, there's a loss for the sound quality too! Wait a minute... could you explain that? You have a loss of quality compared to live

Re: Sound cards (Was: Re: no sound

2011-05-20 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Fri, 20 May 2011 15:33:39 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net: No! But I suspect a bug for Jack and btw. there already was a rounding bug that was fixed, perhaps years ago. Ah, OK. I'll ignore the discussion about different sound cards influencing this as a heap of

Re: SFX library - Search

2011-05-17 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Mon, 16 May 2011 08:32:31 -0500 schrieb Erik Rasmussen mailfore...@gmail.com: Hopefully someone has a better solution than this, Isn't this what all this semantic desktop / desktop search stuff in KDE4 is for? Nepomuk, Strigi ... etc? Many people are annoyed that it consumes resources

Re: *Official Announcement:* Ubuntu Studio is switching to XFCE.

2011-05-17 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Tue, 17 May 2011 00:53:52 +0200 schrieb Robert Klaar nim.b...@gmail.com: Well, either way the system seems to go towards a more OSX like feeling, however I can't help but like the inovative style of Gnome 3, atm. I'm running 10.10 with cairodock Sorry if I'm confused ... are you using

Re: *Official Announcement:* Ubuntu Studio is switching to XFCE.

2011-05-16 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Sun, 15 May 2011 15:46:50 -0400 schrieb Michael Dickson mike.dick...@rivendellnh.com: I believe Ubuntu Studio should track the default Ubuntu desktop for the release track its on. I have thoughts in the same direction, but regarding change from default, I got a perhaps more narrow view,

Re: [Solved] Elegantly Disabling PulseAudio in Ubuntu 10.04/10.10

2011-04-12 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:32:21 +0200 schrieb Ralf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net: - The volume icon in the GNOME panel disappeared. I dunno of you people with your scripts ... I just removed the pulseaudio package on a US 10.04 machine I support ... and installed gnome-alsamixer to get volume

Re: Tascam us-144mkII

2011-04-09 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Sat, 09 Apr 2011 06:35:59 +0200 schrieb ailo ailo...@gmail.com: Specifically, I would be interested to find out if one can get 24 bits and 48kHz out of a card. You can get that out of the Alesis io|2, USB 1, duplex, 24 bit stereo, 48 kHz. It uses actual 24 bit sample format ... so that's

Re: Recording with Alesis IO/2, what about the noise?

2011-03-17 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:31:23 -0500 schrieb Timothy Cook timothywayne.c...@gmail.com: I have this device as well. When I first used it I had the same issue. Playing around with the settings in QJackCtl finally eliminated it. Hm, I don't remember such an issue. I do remember ground loop noise

Re: Working USB sound card?

2011-03-15 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:08:23 +0100 schrieb Giuliano Braglia forever...@gmail.com: Woo, I did it! Just needed to connect the capture 2 to ardour. Wwwwooo! Yo, it's the same as in the real world: You gotta plug the devices together (and check for faulty cables;-). wo (sorry, I

Re: Working USB sound card?

2011-03-10 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:44:49 +0100 schrieb Giuliano Braglia forever...@gmail.com: I will receive the alesis io2 express next week :) can anyone tell me if I have to do something particular in order to install it? You simply plug in the USB wire (yay for bus power), the USB LED should light

Re: Working USB sound card?

2011-03-10 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:49:38 +0100 schrieb Giuliano Braglia forever...@gmail.com: Cool! It's ok if the restriction is to use it with jack, because that's what I wanted to do. I think mainly rosegarden and ardour. I tried to tell you -- there is no restriction to use it with jack;-) The only

Re: Working USB sound card?

2011-03-08 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:11:24 +0100 schrieb Giuliano Braglia forever...@gmail.com: Hello :) Yes it's me. I'm still trying to get the US 122 to work. I also asked for an alternative distro to try. But... just in case i decide to change card, any advice? Alesis io|2 Also, search for cheap

Re: Working USB sound card?

2011-03-08 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:34:22 +0100 schrieb Giuliano Braglia forever...@gmail.com: I like it... so you are using it and it works properly? I use one, yes, and it works like a charm. Out of the box with alsa's usb audio driver. I also recommended to a non-geek friend and she's rather happily

Re: Alesis io 2 express (was: cheap usb-audio-interface)

2011-02-12 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:34:55 +0100 schrieb mentoj dija mentoj_d...@gmx.de: was the only working one. apart from the dummy-driver ;-) On 11.02.2011 15:58, Ricardo Lameiro wrote: why are you using the OSS driver? Heck, I did not spot that: Yeah, having to use the OSS emulation of ALSA

Re: Alesis io 2 express (was: cheap usb-audio-interface)

2011-02-11 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:25:43 +0100 schrieb mentoj dija mentoj_d...@gmx.de: I got an Alesis io2 express audio interface now. after playing around with the jack-parameters, it's working with this preferences (look at the attachment). but with lots of x-runs and this error-messages: Don't

Re: Ubuntu Studio 64 bit program availability

2011-01-13 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:57:40 -0800 schrieb Casey Forslund cforsl...@gmail.com: will I be able to use all of the programs that come pre-installed with Ubuntu studio, and would they be true/native 64 bit, able to fully utilize 64 bit hardware etc? I don't miss any software in my 64 bit Linux

Re: Reply to Tim and HZN regarding comments on Tascam US-122 on Lucid

2011-01-10 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:09:18 +0100 schrieb Hartmut Noack zettber...@linuxuse.de: In short: try a differnt distro. My first recommendations would be AVLinux Yes, an AVLinux DVD is always handy -- it's a pre-configured live system that you don't need to install to do audio work with. Just try

Re: Chiming in on the 'cheap-usb-audio-interface' conversation

2011-01-08 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Sat, 8 Jan 2011 11:34:59 -0500 schrieb Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com: in my experience, USB devices can sometimes pick up as much electrical interference as internal sound cards on laptops. I have to spoil the specific take on USB interfaces: Hey, I hear it when you move the mouse!

Re: Chiming in on the 'cheap-usb-audio-interface' conversation

2011-01-08 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Sat, 8 Jan 2011 14:47:46 -0500 schrieb Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com: ground lift added to the plug on the laptop quieted down my firewire interface, Still sad that that's necessary, isn't it? But at least it is good to have a way out. For that reason I pointed out the symmetric

Someone know this bug with ardour2?

2010-06-01 Thread Thomas Orgis
Hi, I reported that one recently, perhaps someone here remembers something like that, too? It would be so nice if recording on Linux would be stable:-/ http://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=3213 Quote: I am typing this out of my memory, as the affected box is in the studio, not here.

Re: Trouble with wireless setup

2010-04-19 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:36:15 + (GMT) schrieb kirko birilli whyshen...@yahoo.co.uk: hi thomas, wicd and rutilt and all the other graphical applications will not connect nothing if you don't have a 2.6.2x kernel.me got  mobile broadband and no problem in 9.10 with networkmanager out of

Re: Trouble with wireless setup

2010-04-15 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:33:35 -0500 schrieb Erik Rasmussen mailfore...@gmail.com: I've had very good success with *WICD* (*W*ireless *I*nterface *C*onnection *D*aemon), instead of using the default Network Manager. (It handles both wireless and wired connections.) I see that one

Re: [LAU] M-Audio Audiophile 2496 on modern Ubuntu

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:44:05 +0100 schrieb Ricardo Lameiro ricardolame...@gmail.com: Why Pulseaudio, well Pulse audio is a platform that tries to unite all the old sound architectures and create a easy Desktop audio framework. It is indeed a question why one needs such a sound server on a

Trying to install lucid beta on a SCSI box, attempt 2

2010-04-06 Thread Thomas Orgis
Ok, then... I am trying to control my rage... and extract some useful information of my day with ubuntu. This day. This night. I followed the advice to install normal ubuntu first, then add the ubuntustudio stuff. That way, I hoped to get the standard stuff like network management including 3G