Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Ardour, Muse 7.0, Jack_fst (Hypercanvas) & Jack transport...
From: Robert Jonsson (rj_AT_spamatica.se)
Date: Sun Nov 07 2004 - 15:15:05 EET
Hi Russel,
fredagen den 5 november 2004 10.59 skrev Russell Hanaghan:
> Hi all,
>
> I know this isn't a big deal to most but I had to write and say...
>
> With the Missus and kids out of town for a few...I've been a messin'
> with Linux Audio! I have been thinking I was limited to audio only
> recording with Ardour in Linux which was fine. But tonight I proved
> myself wrong and also need to correct a few statements I've made
> previously.
>
> I managed to sync Muse with Ardour and run a midi vst softsynth all with
> relatively few glitches. Hypercanvas is a GM2 full instrument set (128 +
> Roland variations) and has some killer sounds. I use midi sequences for
> backing in my live stuff and play guitars and do vocals. Sort of
> Kar-e-okie on steriods really...but it has punch! I have been needing to
> do a demo so rather than concede defeat and resort to Sonar I tried this
> combo and it worked very well. I actually finished on song and mastered
> it thru Jamin and it kix ass even if I do say so myself!! :) I did
> Superstition ...sort of a cross between Stevie and Stevie. The midi file
> is very punchy and I laid 4 guitar tracks and 2 vocals. Never went out
> of sync. Shut both progs down...shut one down...logged out on one
> machine...oh...and for added kix, I used a laptop with 2 monitor capable
> Vid card, hooked up a spare monitor and used XDMCP as well as a montor
> and keyboard on the actual machine. This gave me twice as much Desktop
> real estate and worked great! All stayed in sync with no drift at all.
Good to hear that you are able to be creative in a Linux environment :)
> Hypercanvas dies every so often but it was doing that before anyway.
As for hypercanvas dying. I believe VST's must still be considered
experimental on Linux...
I've noticed that some of the synths are noticeable more stable if you close
it's GUI, you could give it a try. Please note that you can currently only do
this from the "Soft Synth Configuration" dialog, click on the corresponding
little green dot.
> So to correct the things I mentioned...Originally I said on this forum
> that Muse was kind buggy and not ready for much of anything. Although
> it's still very sensitive to loading up (used $ muse -P 99) and it does
> not save mixer states
Actually all mixer states are properly stored but for some songs the mixer
states are overwritten with default values when the song has been loaded.
Somekind of a race condition that hasn't been properly investigated yet
(I think it's fixed for the coming 0.8, though that won't be out for a while).
You could try to load the song from command line this has helped for me on
many occasions.
> (might be a controller thing in the sequence
> too...I'm not sure) and still gets gas sometimes running on 2.6.7 with
> realtime-lsm, it ran quite predictably and the thing I like about it
> most is it is more intuitive than RG on instruments, etc. RG is a pain
> because you have to setup instruments individually most of the time.
>
> Sorry for the blurb...I gotta go to bed but I laid down 3 songs tonight
> all in Linux and I'm stoked! I used the gammit and this is just
> reaffrimation of what you all know; Linux audio has come a LONG way and
> is packing some punch!!
Yep, making music under linux works (without bending over backwards) today!
Regards,
Robert
> Cheers
>
> R~
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