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Re: [Rosegarden-user] UbuntuStudio 8.1
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From: GARY S. <gse...@bt...> - 2008-12-04 12:40:35
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Hi Andrew and all, ros...@li... by 8.1 you mean 8.10 dont you? I tried ubuntu 8.4 for about six months, there was much that I liked about the experience, including the dark theme. on my m-audio 2496 card I got crackling in the sound (made it feel more analog), which sometimes sounded good and sometimes was really annoying. I will keep an eye on ubuntu studio and hope that it gets much better. I'm going to give 64studio another shot now as the thing that it does really well is good sound with low latency, the problems are getting my cnet cwp-854 wireless card working with it (is often a problem), slightly less range of software (i only really use amsynth, alsamodular, zynadd, jackrack,hexter and ofcourse rosegarden and linuxsampler). Oh and in 64studio jackrack does not accept midi. I hope to use alsamodular for effects in the future anyway as it will be much more flexible. One thing i'd like to see improved is the way connections are made using qjackctl, at the moment it is far too fiddly and error prone (disconnect all and start again etc). I know thare is an alternative patchbay but it is not much better. I wish the cables in qjackctl would simulate real cables more (much fatter, easier to see with sockets with vitual plugs ). A way to save the connections for later use would be good to (i'm giving my self some good ideas for a software project now). BTW ive also tried Musix, which was really quite nice and Jacklab where qjackctrl listed some midi things on the wrong tab so that i could not connect them to other midi things (i think tha tab was called alsa). Overall, I think that UbuntuStudio is the most polished looking and user friendly, giving the feeling that you are using some really expensive gear. Where it falls down is glitches in the audio, higher latency and why do we have to have pulse-audio? Also there is no Linux sampler, unless you jump through some hoops and compile it yourself. 64 studio looks like more oldschool linux, has linux sampler. Your WiFi connection is unlikely to work with this out of the box. The sound though is much better (no crackles or other glitches) and the latency is much better (less visual fluff and no pulse-audio). As its debian based you will suffer from having your firefox being called an iceweasel and have to jump through more hoops if you want to get flash working. Personally, I go for the better the better sound quality and speed of 64studio and will wrestle with the other issues when I feel like doing so. In the future I hope to use Arch 64, install a rt kernel and take it from there. Compiz, pulse-audio and other x-run inducing frills have no place in a DAW. Kind Regards, Gary --- On Tue, 2/12/08, Andrew Thorne <red...@ho...> wrote: From: Andrew Thorne <red...@ho...> Subject: Re: [Rosegarden-user] UbuntuStudio 8.1 To: ros...@li... Date: Tuesday, 2 December, 2008, 11:08 PM Hello Dave, I intend to install it on both of my work laptops during the Christmas holidays. You can already get packages for Rosegarden 1.7.2 for hardy heron 8.04 through www.getdeb.net/app/rosegarden I have been depending on these for real paid work without any problems since September. I only upgrade during the school holidays as it gives me enough time to downgrade again if it all goes wrong. There is also a binary here: http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Rosegarden-Download-2505.html but I haven't used this, so I have no opinion on it. Having tried pretty much everything available I will encourage everybody to support Ubuntu Studio. It seems to be the best chance we have of a well-supported frequently-developed multimedia system. I'm just a user, never been a developer, but I'll advocate Rosegarden, Rezound, Lilypond, Jack and Ubuntu Studio to anybody. Somebody tell me why I'm wrong please. Best wishes Andrew Thorne From: David Tisdell Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 5:16 PM To: rosegarden-user Subject: [Rosegarden-user] UbuntuStudio 8.1 Hi All, Has anyone tried the new Ubuntustudio (8.1)? Is it an improvement over 8.0? I have been doing most of midi/audio work in JAD which I am largely satisfied with but the development is not keeping pace with newer versions of Suse (upon which JAD is based Stable JAD is based on SUse 10.2 1.1 Alpha on 10.3 and current version of suse is 11.0) whereas UbuntuStudio seems to keep up with the standard Ubuntu release cycle. Is it keeping up with Rosegarden updates? Thanks. Dave------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/_______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Ros...@li... - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user |