> This exchange convinced me to try to get Trisquel working with audio > production again. To make this work I installed the KXStudio repo to > get Ardour 5 and the latest related JACK, etc.
KXStudio's PPA doesn't support Ubuntu 18.04, so at this time it's not helpful for Trisquel 9. I initially wanted to bring in Cadence from KXStudio, but I now think we're better off with Ubuntu Studio Controls. I plan to backport packages from later versions of Ubuntu and from PPAs. So far I have had succeess backporting newer versions of LMMS, Ardour, Audacity, Carla, Calf, and Musescore. When I'm further along I'll make a post asking for community input on which packages we should backport. For now though I'm turning my attention to Ubuntu Studio's default audio configuration. Today I downloaded an Ubuntu Studio 18.04 ISO and tried it on two laptops: - On my X230, with which I've also had trouble with JACK using Cadence, audio worked perfectly out of the box. - On my X61 (the machine I'm using to test Trisquel 9) Audacity and VLC worked when set to use JACK, but the ALSA and Pulseaudio bridges weren't working, so I couldn't get sound from non-JACK-aware programs. If possible, I would actually like to avoid Pulseaudio entirely, but there are two problems to solve first: (1) Firefox by default only supports Pulseaudio. However, supposedly it's possible to build Firefox with JACK support, so maybe we could do this with Abrowser. Alternatively, running Abrowser with apulse might work. (2) There are volume tray applets for ALSA, and it is not hard to map multimedia keys to amixer. However, I'm not sure how to get volume notifications without Pulseaudio. Are you aware of any Pulseaudio substitutes for this? > Anyway, I really hope we can get those nifty Ubuntu Studio > configurations in Trisquel 9. It would make this man very happy. Although a lot of packages are still missing from Trisquel 9, Slim+Xfce is running okay for me. If you have a spare machine or partition on which you'd be willing to install an unstable but usable system, it would be a huge help to me if you could test all this. I actually do very little audio production myself, so your workflow would be a better guide for how to configure and what to backport. I think that by next weekend I'll be ready to ask quidam to actually merge some of these backports and imports. At that point, if you are interested, I can walk you through installing Trisquel 9 with Slim, Xfce, JACK, Ardour, and Ubuntu Studio Controls (rebranded as Trisquel Studio Controls). Any problems you encounter or additional software you need will give me some direction as to what to work on next.
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