Thinking of jumping from Ubuntu to Ubuntu Studio

[Punchy]

I mean why not give it a shot, yuh? I just did a fresh re-install anyway (for the newest version), so all my personal stuff is already gathering dust on an external harddrive. The Studio version has a "real-time" kernel and comes with a lot of audio-related stuff preconfigured and ready to rock.

Then perhaps I will do a shootout of Ardour 2 vs. Reaper 3.x for anybody who cares. :o

Ok, if you don't see me for a while (or I start posting from my iPod) you'll know why :jj:

[Punchy]

Hmm, not diggin' it. Changed a bunch of the eye candy (which was fine to begin with) and not really noticing a difference with the audio stuff. Lets see if I can go back now :lol:

[Punchy]

Well that was a failed experiment. Just reinstalled vanilla Ubuntu. So when that gets done I'll do my shootout. :o


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[Phil513]

I have never even heard of Ubuntu. Interesting.

[Mark Wein]

I'm pretty unfamiliar with it, too.


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[Phil513]

So, i googled it. It's an operating system? Could you shed a bit more light on this?

[Punchy]

Yeah, Ubuntu is one of the many versions of Linux. Seems to be one of the most user friendly.

When XP fubar'd on me, I didn't feel like spending the $200 for Win7, so I went with Ubuntu. For what I do (e-mail, internet, Reaper, and at the time WoW) it works splendidly. And it was free. Really, the only issue I've had with it is some VSTs will crash Reaper, but for what I'm recording, I can just make do with other plugins or whatever.

Reaper runs under WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator). . .basically a collection of dll files that lets it run windows programs nearly natively. There's also a Linux native DAW called Ardour that I've been meaning to try out, so hopefully I'll have some spare time this weekend to give it a shot.

[Punchy]

Well, under Ubuntu 11.04 I can get Reaper to run and record, just not with all the low-latency tricks that people recommend. Not sure how much of an issue that is with an i3 and a 2-input interface, but since it's supposed to rain all weekend, I'm hoping to get at least a couple of tracks down.

That being said, if I'm recording track-by-track by myself, is the latency really an issue since I can just chop off the nose of the track and slide it over to match the other tracks? :idk:

[BoomBoomBigelow]

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 as my main OS. The version number indicates the year and month of the release. It usually takes a few months to work out compatibility bugs. There is a version called Ubuntu Studio which includes a ton of Audio, Video and Graphic programs which automatically install, optimize and configure to work together. It also offers the 'realtime" kernel, which gives priority to playback and recording type processes. For production critical work, they recommend 8.04.1, for this reason.

You can also just start with generic Ubuntu and pick and choose any of these apps to add at any time. Not sure about Studio, but with regular Ubuntu, you can install it (if you have the disk space) right along side Windows, in a dual boot config. They also offer a LiveCD version which you boot from the CD and try it out without installing.

Latency is only crucial when monitoring or recording along with playback. And with most modern audio cards it's only a few milliseconds. With some time-based effects, like phasing and flanging, this might be audible, and yeah, you can adjust in the editor.

[Punchy]

Yeah, at the moment I'm on 11.04. Running Reaper with just the standard ALSA drivers and don't seem to be having any problems. Latency is around 45 ms, but I've just been dragging the track over to where it needs to be when I'm done recording it :idk: