Hi all,
Just a quick note to say Hi.
I have bought a new Intel based box. Didn't want windows - thought I'd go into
Linux, give it a whirl. Been years since my last exposure.
Installed Ubuntu studio clean, done easily, happy with that. Auto-detection, no
config files to play with etc.
I went with an audio focussed install - and within minutes I had a nice, fast
desktop.
Audacity worked off the bat - massive number of plugins - just fantastic. "Ok,
this is looking promising." I thought
Ardour took me more time - JACK was a learning curve for me. (Need to put some
better documentation together for that whole concept etc.)
Hydrogen - I'm in love with it.
Tying it all together - WOW!
Struggle? Yes, I did. Learning - hell yes.
Enjoy? Yes. Troubles? I broke it, at least three times. (Set up a new user
account, and started over each time.)
Got that annoying delay/lag in the audio, got the stutter thing happening, then
fixed that, discovered low latency kernel, xruns and argued with JACK.
I surfed the web, played, broke it again. Started over, played some more. I got
really into this - discovering the eyecandy for the desktop, etc. lots of other
things. Then I managed to break THAT!
You should know that out of the box, I could have used it for what I wanted to
use it for. Basic audio production for a community radio station. However, I
wanted to do more. Ubuntu Studio let me. Made me. Forced me to do more.
I now dual boot between ubuntustudio and Mandriva. Ardour also runs under
Mandriva really easily... Actually less configuration than Ubuntustudio, but I
prefer the version of Audacity in Ubuntu studio.
To sum up, man, I like this. I am spoilt for choice :-)
j...@!
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