Linux Ubuntu Studio and Ardour

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2013/05/06 15:21:04 (permalink)

Linux Ubuntu Studio and Ardour

I like to make field recordings and so I've been using a laptop, but my laptop needs replacing. I have a great laptop for work, which I could use for the field recordings. I used Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.3.1 to create a bootable USB Drive for Linux Ubuntu Studio, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Studio for this Linux version (ubuntustudio-13.04-dvd-i386). Now, I have the ability to make recordings using ANY laptop along with my Fireface UCX. This is a link to the manual for the DAW that comes installed on this version of Ubuntu... http://en.flossmanuals.ne...view-of-the-interface/ It appears to be a DAW without MIDI. I have succeeded in recording using it with 256 buffer latency, which is pretty good for the purposes, but admittedly I can do better with Sonar. I have recorded 8 tracks at 44.1 (24 bit). It has all kinds of FX. Frankly, it's a lot of fun for free. I'm hoping to get a nice rack workstation in the fall, and using a portable drive with my UCX is just really cool. I don't even have to bring my laptop when making recordings at a friends place. We can use his! I just plug my USB hard drive with Ubuntu studio on it and the UCX into my friend's PC and we're off.

StudioCat > I use Windows 10 and Sonar Platinum. I have a touch screen.
I make some videos. This one shows how to do a physical loopback on the RME UCX to get many more equalizer nodes.
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    gswitz
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    Re:Linux Ubuntu Studio and Ardour 2013/05/06 15:31:48 (permalink)
    On further investigation there are midi apps and you use a routing engine called Jack to divert signal flow between apps. Definitely different from Sonar's all in one solution. Lots of little applications work in conjunctions to get the big picture... I should also mention that I have to use my audio interface in CLASS COMPLIANT mode in order to get it to work. The UFX does NOT show up unless I do this. My native PC Interface does show up though. So if I wanted to use this to record a single instrument through the microphone jack on the PC itself, I could.

    StudioCat > I use Windows 10 and Sonar Platinum. I have a touch screen.
    I make some videos. This one shows how to do a physical loopback on the RME UCX to get many more equalizer nodes.
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