Gentoo Studio: Professional Audio Gentoo Workstation

audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

I'd like to announce that I'm in #gentoostudio on Freenode. I'm not always at keyboard, but I often am. I don't always have the answer, but I'll do what I can to help you if you get stuck on anything. I want it to work!

Note: I'll make #gentoostudio stick with a bot at some point, but for now, it depends on me being logged in - but I usually am during the day, EST, some but not all weekends included.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:13 pm Post subject:

audiodef,

Put chanserv in your channel.
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audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

Good idea, thanks!

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audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

GentooStudio.org has been updated. Specifically, the manual installation instructions just got a thorough workout and fixup from me.

Comments and suggestions, as always, are welcome for the sake of improvement.
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audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

The stage 4 tarball is now up-to-date, as is the stage 4 installation guide. I am very interested in receiving comments and criticisms in the name of improvement.

The Gentoo Studio stage 4 install is faster and easier than a manual install without sacrificing anything of what makes Gentoo, well, Gentoo. A huge advantage of this installation method is that a number of fixes for getting some audio programs installed (orphaned SRC_URIs are common, for example) have been taken care of.
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audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

There have been some recent changes to the Portage tree that affects audio packages. Please see the Gentoo Studio site for more information.
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malin666 · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2012 Posts: 3

on stage3 guide, I'v got an ebuild unpack error
on stage4 guide, got booting errors
all instalations booted due USB stage3

audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

Just a quick note to anyone who might be posting with comments or requests for help: I have been undergoing some post-op therapy (nothing serious, but it does eat up my time). I'm still around and available for help, but if you really need something, please go to the Gentoo Studio site (gentoostudio.org) and find the webmaster email address on the home page. I will get a message from you that way much sooner than I will here for the time being.

And as I pointed out above, please be very detailed. With nothing to go on, I can't help you. That means log outputs, copy-and-paste, even photo-of-your-screen will help.
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audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

I recently had the opportunity to make a fresh install of Gentoo Studio on my own DAW (rather than my dev machine), and that showed me I had a couple of gaps to fill in the stage 4 installation documentation. Most notably, it was missing a section explaining that make.conf must be modified to fit YOUR system.

As always, comments are welcome.
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audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

LordVan · Developer Joined: 28 Nov 2002 Posts: 67 Location: Austria

Cool stuff!

I want to set up better audio stuff on my machine anyway

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audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

Thank you, LordVan. (Should I bow?)

Some changes and improvements have been made - new users should have a better stage 4 tarball to work with.

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audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

Gentoo Studio in action: I'm going to be participating in electro-music.com's 2013 Summer Solstice radio show. Naturally, I'm going to be broadcasting from a stage 4 installation of Gentoo Studio using either Ardour or Audacity and IDJC. Show info here: http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-58067.html

I'm on at 1500 GMT, but come early and stay late, as these are all fantastic musicians.
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audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

July's stage 4 tarball includes the following changes:

* Corrected typo in /home/gentoostudio/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart that allowed screen blanking when it should be off by default.
* Upgraded IDJC to 0.8.9 (the current version as of this date) by coping from the proaudio repo to the local overlay and copying the ebuild to version 0.8.9.
* Installed Ingen/Drobilla/Patchage.
* Removed outdated rt-sources-3.6.11_p31.
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_______0 · Guru Joined: 15 Oct 2012 Posts: 521

hi,

Are AMD apu's any good for sound editing? Earlier gen are quite cheap now. Is a dual core APU enough for sound editing?

I am looking for a light set up, perhaps upping RAM and a cheap, but not slow, APU.

I have the impression that sound editing needs crazy cores to process tracks and edit more efficiently, such lowering latency.

To be honest I don't know whether current linux sound editing software is multi-threaded, that takes advantage of cpu's with multiple cores.

Any body know how exactly does an audio software use multiple cores?

Does the app use threads to process sound on a single track or separate threads for several tracks or for using plugins? Or all that?

thanks.

audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

August's updated tarball is up, with the following changes/additions:

Updated README to include all installed software and features
Upgraded kernel to 3.8.13-rt14
Switched from libusb to libusb-compat

Added software:

Sweep
Synthv1
Softwerk

Drop by gentoostudio.org for the usual docs and other stuff.
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audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

Do you have the Korg Legacy Collection? I do. I've known for a while now that it can be run on Wine. What I'd like to share today is how to control a KLC synth from Ardour 3.

Run Qjackctl, start JACK, and start Ardour 3. In a terminal, start j2amidi_bridge. Create a MIDI track and put some notes in. Open a KLC synth via Wine. In the KLC synth System -> Preferences -> MIDI Settings tab, select j2a_bridge as Device 1 and optionally as your clock master. Open the "Connections" window of Qjackctl, go to the MIDI tab, and connect your Ardour track to j2a_bridge. When you play your Ardour track, notes should now be heard from your KLC synth.
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audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

September's updates to the stage 4 tarball include the following new packages installed:

bpmdetect
zita-ajbridge
naspro-bridges
bpmdj
jackbeat (get modified ebuild from ebuilds page that avoids trying to compile pulseaudio-9999, which is not required)
mp32ogg
dir2ogg

The following packages have been upgraded:

ocaml-mm (to version 0.2.1, ebuild on ebuilds page)
ocaml-ogg (to version 0.4.5, ebuild on ebuilds page)
Liquidsoap (to version 1.1.0, just copy the ebuild in the local overlay to this version and emerge it) + updated init script on scripts page
rt-sources (to version 3.10.6_p3)

Existing installations can benefit from updating these ebuilds in your local overlay. It has already been taken care of in the tarball for fresh installations.

Ardour 3 has not been updated this month due to a waf configure error in the files fetched by subversion. This has been confirmed on three different Gentoo machines. We will see what happens next month before reporting this to Ardour.org.

Liquidsoap has not been updated to the latest version, 1.1.1, because there seems to be an issue with using annotation. As soon as I figure it out, the tarball version will be updated to 1.1.1. Friendly reminder: when using Liquidsoap with Icecast, you must make sure the number of allowed sources in /etc/icecast2/icecast2.xml match the number of streams you want to run, including any streams that you might need to run live on a schedule instead of continuously.

New desktop background for Gentoo Studio. Add it to your installation. It is now the default background on new installations. Featured is a modified "G" Logo and the Arturia Minibrute.

Gentoo Studio now has a Facebook page.
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darrynza · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2013 Posts: 1

Just wanted to say Great Job on this .

audiodef · Watchman Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 5308

Now that totally made my day. Thanks!
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darkad · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2013 Posts: 1

Before I begin to follow the 'stage 4 installation' I would like to know if the installation would be possible in dual boot with a os x on a macbook.

I haven't found a Macbook 4.1 step by step gentoo installation guide, considering the efi boot, newer than 2008.

I would love to use the gentoostudio <3