Gentoo Studio: A Gentoo Linux Professional Audio Workstation

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

What modules do i need for my akai mpk49? it keeps being loaded as usb audio midi
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dkasak · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2012 Posts: 61

Hi all. I just installed on a new Macbook Pro

It was relatively easy ( for me ), but there are some *critical* issues that would prevent others ...

1) No firmware in /lib64/firmware. This means lots of wireless devices won't work out-of-the-box. I realise lots of people will also have ethernet devices, USB wireless devices, etc, etc, but still ... adding firmware would make things a whole lot easier. It's worth pointing out that MBPs don't have an ethernet device at all, but use thunderbolt ports to connect to ethernet via something I don't have.

2) Something was totally broken WRT dbus, which prevented NetworkManager from managing my network devices, even after I'd grabbed the firmware from another running system ( again, not an option for everyone, and totally non-obvious ), copied it to a USB disk, etc, etc. I eventually fixed it by re-installing dbus ( emerge -1 dbus ) and rebooting. Oh - this was also troublesome ... I had to see what sources portage was trying to fetch, download them on a running system, copy to USB, frig around ...

For people curious, I'm having major issues getting a real-time kernel booting on this hardware

The default Sabayon kernel ( 4.1.0 currently ) works fine, so I'm booting with that at the moment.

dkasak · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2012 Posts: 61

yngwin · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:54 am Post subject:

Users of Gentoo Studio (and related overlays): please let me know which packages you find useful. I would like to get a better selection of music production packages into our main gentoo repo. (You may have noticed I added a few recently, and updates others.)
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steveL · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 3:51 pm Post subject:

@yngwin: zita-ajbridge is one that Michel Dominique recommended a while back as essential; I see media-libs/zita-alsa-pcmi in main-tree, but no idea what that's about. (Info from someone who knows more would be useful, as ever.)

audiodef · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 10:05 pm Post subject:

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I've just used Spectre on Gentoo Studio, via Wine, to update the firmware in my Blofeld. Don't know what else that Spectre does would work, but at least firmware update does. Quote this post and reply if you've tested other Spectre functions successfully in Wine/Gentoo.
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ifys · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2014 Posts: 35

audiodef · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 6:30 pm Post subject:

I just moved, and I can't find the hard drive I use for Gentoo Studio devel... I'm sure it'll turn up. I just have to keep unpacking random boxes. :roll:

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audiodef · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 1:55 am Post subject:

http://gentoostudio.org/index.php/74-december-2015-update

Work has started on a rebuild of the stage 4 tarball. Instead of swapping out a hard drive on my laptop, I have installed an extra drive in my actual DAW I will use for this purpose.

The new tarball will use Xfce4 as the desktop environment, but you are always welcome to trash it in favor of something else once Gentoo Studio is installed.

This rebuild also gives me an opportunity to update the manual install guide.

At this time, I am requesting feedback on audio devices that do and do not work out of the box. For devices that did not work out of the box, if you can provide detailed steps you took to make your device(s) work, I will try to include that device in the tarball. You will need to have installed Gentoo Studio from the tarball, and not have used the manual install guide.

No deadline is set for the new tarball, but I will post updates.

Follow the link above to see a couple of pics of Gentoo Studio's new dev home (n00b l337 h0|\/|3).
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audiodef · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:09 am Post subject: Working ebuild for Cadence

I'm happy to announce that we have a working ebuild for Cadence: http://gentoostudio.org/ebuilds/cadence-9999.ebuild. Use it in your local overlay.
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audiodef · Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2015 2:09 am Post subject: Manual install guide updated

The manual install guide for Gentoo Studio (http://gentoostudio.org/index.php/13-manual-install-installing-audio-midi-programs) has been overhauled to reflect current Gentoo install practices. The guide has been simplified in some ways, and provides more detail in others. Basically, the guide is the same process I am using to create the overhauled stage4 tarball. The only differences will be that the stage4 installation will have some appearance options tweaked from the default plain-Jane stuff, and the tarball will have demos for various commercial software installed. The current goal from now on is to add to the manual install guide whatever I add to the tarball in the future, so that the differences between the manual install and stage4 install will remain cosmetic.
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augustin · Guru Joined: 23 Feb 2015 Posts: 318

Hi!

I noticed that your overlay uses media-sound/hydrogen-0.9.5.1:

ifys · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2014 Posts: 35

6 MANUAL INSTALL : configuring the Kernel

Configuring the kernel
Gentoo Studio used to use Pappy's Kernel Seeds. With that site in limbo at the moment, I'm providing my own kernel config, which is based on the latest kernel seed before they disappeared. You'll need to tweak the config to match your system. I highly recommend you use the config I'm providing, which has been tweaked to allow USB and Firewire audio devices to work, among other helpful things for audio production.
Download the seed:
ln -s /usr/src/linux-(rt-sources-version) /usr/src/linux
cd /usr/src/linux
wget http://gentoostudio.org/src/rt-kernel-config
mv rt-kernel-config .config

# CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL is not set

Isn t that supposed to be enabled ?

ifys · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2014 Posts: 35

sys-process/rtirq emege failed

unable to install rtirq
emerge will failed because rtirq-20140413.tar.gz is no longer on the site http://www.rncbc.org/jack/

2015 version is avalable thru another overlay, hering-overlay
but i only want one package and i don t think that adding another overlay to PROAUDIO is a good thing

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ifys · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2014 Posts: 35

audiodef · Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 11:34 pm Post subject: Temporary wine ebuild for 1.8

Wine's official stable version is now 1.8. Until an official ebuild is out, you can use this one. When the official ebuild is out, switch to that one. All I did was copy the latest 1.7 ebuild and remove failed patches one by one until it worked. 1.8 should be helpful for audio work, as it contains audio-related improvements, among other things.
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audiodef · Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 11:36 pm Post subject:

Waldorf Blofeld users can use Spectre under Wine. Here is the appdb entry I submitted.
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I'm having server issues, so gentoostudio.org is down for a bit. I will have it back up ASAP. I apologize for any inconvenience.

TL;DR: Been having spam issues, mail server software went south, Joomla is a giant spam magnet, yadda. Going to rebuild the server and try doing things differently - maybe a little less do-it-for-you stuff and a little more do-it-myself-so-I-can-fix-every-micron-if-I-need-to. Hopefully when that's done, I'll have a server setup that lets me spend less time trying to fix stuff and more time in my studio making music and actively working on Gentoo Studio. Seems like every few years my server just gunks up and I rebuild it. It's annoying. I remember the days when I did NOT use any kind of CMS - you know, no Joomla or anything like that to attract spamflies. Maybe that's what I need to do.
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szatox · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3129

Do you actually need a website for this project?
I mean, sure it's cool and all, but you look a bit tired of maintaining that website and you could just as well paste links to torrents here (magnets: it's legal even in that crazy US, isn't it?).

Your TL;DR is longer than the initial message :lol: