Hi Rafael, I teach students music and audio engineering using Nuendo and various other DAW, synth and editing programs, but chose to use linux for my own audio work. Ubuntustudio is a great place to start - good choice. First thing is to make sure you can get the audio server "jack" going smoothly without xruns. See http://jackaudio.org/ for info. I find it best to control with "qjackctl". Ardour is a great DAW - really quick and slick for recording and editing - but it does need jack running well. Following the advice about a realtime kernel helps too.
Just found this link - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/FireWire_Recording - for firewire devices, but it also mentions how to get the realtime kernel going. Hope this is useful, Denis Rafael F. Compte wrote: > Hi guys > > Thanks for the tip about gksudo and its use. From now on I will try to > read the man pages. I'm actually losing my fear of the terminal :) > Now to get into subject I was wondering if this is the right place to > ask. I own a Sony Vaio laptop. It's actually kind of low-end (VGN-FS > series with Celeron M processor and 512RAM - upgraded to 1.5 GB). I'd > been a Windows user for some time until a couple of weeks ago when I > decided I had enough and wiped my hard drive and installed Ubuntustudio > on it. My decision was functional as well as ideological. No need to go > into that. I suppose you all know what I mean. Now, I'm used to Windows' > apps. I used Nuendo as a DAW (for audio and MIDI) and Sound Forge for > editing. In fact, I am a music student and I actually need these apps > for my projects. So what i've done is risky and I would appreciate your > help. What I'm trying to say is that I'd rather use Linux native > replacements for these apps instead of running a Virtual Machine. I > would say I'm almost a newbie, although I already bought a couple of > magazines and books to help me through the process. So I'm all ears to > recommendations and tips.... > > Thanks in advance guys, > > Rafael > -- Dr Denis Crowdy Department of Contemporary Music Studies, Macquarie University +61 2 9850 6787 http://www.dcms.mq.edu.au http://www.motekulo.net http://www.melanesianmusic.org -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
