> I'm definitely not > very comfortable configuring all these things myself. I tiried with > Trisquel 8 and I could get something working but then it would break.
Do you mean configuring JACK? That's what I find challenging. I find Cadence and Catia to be more user-friendly than qjackctl, but even with that it's a pain. I find that class-compliant USB audio interfaces tend to work fine, but most of my friends also want their laptop sound cards to work, and that's a huge pain. It never "just works," and the steps that make it "work" seem to be different for every laptop, if I ever figure it out at all. I had by now assumed that there just is no one-size-fits-all configuration so that JACK works out-of-the-box for any given sound card. However, it sounds like you have had a good experience with Ubuntu Studio. If you can confirm that Ubuntu Studio works even with your laptop sound card, I would be very interested to understand and copy their default configuration. > If I could help with finding some configuration files from Ubuntu > Studio, I think that would be doable. Does anyone have a sense of what > files are needed to be looked at? First, can you tell me the output of the following commands? You only need to bother with the last two if it turns out the pulseaudio isn't installed. $ apt policy jackd1 | grep Installed $ apt policy jackd2 | grep Installed $ apt policy pulseaudio | grep Installed $ grep Exec /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop $ apt policy firefox Then, I have a few questions. (1) What version of Ubuntu Studio are you running? There are three supported versions right now: 18.04, 18.10, and 19.04. I am most interested in 18.04 since that's Trisquel 9's upstream. (2) What graphical frontend are you using for JACK? This is important, since it could have it's own configuration files separate from JACK and pulseaudio. KXStudio uses Cadence for configuring and Catia for routing, but as far as I can tell those packages are not present in Ubuntu. I know of a few other frontends (qjackctrl, patchage, patchmatrix) and it would be helpful to know what Ubuntu Studio uses. (3) If it's not too much trouble, can you also run $ ubuntustudio-controls and share some screenshots of whatever pops up? It seems like this might include a JACK front end, but I can't find any detailed information online. (4) This isn't important to answer right now, but start thinking about what audio programs you use frequently and if there are any for which it is important to you to have a newer version than that in Ubuntu 18.04, to help get an idea of which packages might be worth backporting. When I have more time I'll download an Ubuntu Studio ISO and mess around with a live session. For now though, if you can quickly check/answer the things I list above, that will give a good idea of what sort of approach Ubuntu Studio have taken.
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