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Recently a friend of mine got a new #Windows PC for running #Cubase on it. He installed his previously used software, namely Cubase and #Voxengo audio plugins on the new box.

When he opened a Cubase project he had copied from his old PC, none of the plugins in that project were detected any more. Even though he had them installed. So he had to open the project on the old machine, write all plugin settings down to paper, re-insert the very same plugins on the new machine into the very same project and restore the settings from his notes.

I just copied an #Ardour project from #OSX to #UbuntuStudio #Linux. I use some Windows #Voxengo plugins on Linux via #LinVST, while I use native Voxengo binaries on OS X.

The Ardour project created on OS X plays on Linux out of the box, using all plugins (given they are installed).

Just one of these many details in how your #DAW does certain things.

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Mobiles Mini-#Tonstudio.

Das #MacBook von 2017 ist bei weitem nicht überfordert mit der Aufgabe, fängt aber bereits bei 5 bis 10% Systemauslastung unglaublich an zu pusten, sodass man eigentlich in einen anderen Raum damit muss. #Apple, so gefeiert, ich kann's immer noch nicht nachvollziehen.

Einsatzgrund: #RME #TotalMix für das #Fireface400 ist einfach so viel besser als #ffadomixer unter #UbuntuStudio #Linux. Letzterer wäre auf meinem #Thinkpad verfügbar und würde auch mit diesem Interface funktionieren.

#Ardour bleibt Ardour, auch auf #OSX.

I managed to revive #Hofa #ddpPlayer in #Wine.

There's #ddpTools on the command line that is easy to install on #UbuntuStudio #Linux, it is fairly easy to create a #DDP #CDimage for professional #CD manufacturing with it. For free, while other tools for doing this can be very expensive.

But there is only one native tool for Linux that allows you to check the result, which is DDP Tools itself. Doesn't make too much sense to me, because: of course the image by DDP Tools will pass the check of DDP Tools.

But what you want to avoid at any cost is something like having 1000 CDs that have some kind of error in them.

HOFA DDP Player V2 apparently is missing some font and looks rather rustic as a result.

Otherwise, it works well.

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Like #Dexed for the #Yahama #DX7, #SQ8L claims to be #SysEx compatible with the corresponding hardware #synthesizer, the #Ensoniq #ESQ80 or #ESQ1. So this means you can load patches from your 80ties hardware synthesizer into the plugin and vice versa.

Sad story is that #UbuntuStudio 24.04 has lost Dexed for some reason, it comes with #Hexter instead which – on my system – completely fails to show the GUI, so it's even worse than SQ-8L. (I'd love to get Dexed back, even though it looked very confusing, I loved the sound.)

These two are related, because the famous DX7 and the ESQ1/80 were new around the same time, both being very digital (the ESQ1 having analog filters, though). The ESQ1 never made it to the same fame as the DX7 did but both sound like the 80ties.

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Jump for joy!

#SQ8L, an #VST #plugin emulator of the #Ensoniq #ESQ80 #Synthesizer running on #UbuntuStudio #Linux 24.04 via #LinVST in #Carla plugin host. Needs #Wine.

All I had to do is wait. The plugin locks up Carla (and probably even Jack) for about half a minute.

So most likely it is trying to do something that ends in a time-out. When opening the GUI a second time, it pops up instantly.

Any idea on how to find out what this old #VSTi from 2008 is waiting for?

Btw., nerds:

$> file SQ8L.dll
SQ8L.dll: PE32 executable (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows, 7 sections

Feels a bit like Christmas.

The ESQ-80 basically was an extended/upgraded version of the #ESQ1, with the most obvious feature being a diskette drive in addition to the memory cartridge slot. But also, Ensoniq had changed the dumb old home-organ-style keyboard by one with responsive action and polyphonic aftertouch.

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I wish I could get this to run… (Screenshot stolen).

#SQ8L is a #plugin emulation of the #Ensoniq #SQ80 #Synthesizer.

Actually it does run a bit, I can play it via MIDI in #Carla, but this very old Windows #VST just crashes as soon as I want to open the GUI. I'm using #LinVST on #UbuntuStudio #Linux 24.04 and whenever a Windows plugin has trouble, it is due to the GUI needing #Wine.

Other elderly 32bit #VSTi plugins do work in my system.

This piece of software has not been updated since June 2008 and you can download it from here: buchty.net/ensoniq/

So now I'll keep on waiting for the spare parts for my #ESQ1 to arrive from China.

It's astonishing that this Ensoniq synth series isn't that popular today, because the sounds are quite unique. Perhaps it is due to the rather ugly user interface.

Or, more likely, it is because people don't want unique synths, they want that Behringer Moog copy and pretend it's somewhen in the 70ties.

Getting ready to record…

I had created this nice little #RME #Fireface ”handbag” for recording an unplugged live album, solo piano in a church.

Turns out I haven't used it ever since in any real production. #Recording is such a dead horse these days. But soon one of the very occasional recording jobs will happen.

Now I have to check into my old #MacBook 2017, which is the computer counterpart to this. I'm not sure if this would even work with recent versions of OSX. It for sure does work with current versions of #UbuntuStudio #Linux. But the #ffadomixer replacement of RME's #TotalMix is just a sad story compared to the original.

So let's see if #Harrison #Mixbus 10 Pro runs with this on the very old #OSX… for mixdown, I'll use #UbuntuStudio #Linux as usual.

Oh, the album, in church? Here it is: annaohlmann.bandcamp.com/album

Ola, hai un tempo instalei Ubuntu Studio 24.04 nun MacBookPro 10,1 (mid 2012) e todo funciona bastante ben. O único que non dou a arranxar é o brillo da pantalla. Atopei un modo de arranxalo metendo esta liña dende a consola:
setpci -v -H1 -s 00:01.00 BRIDGE_CONTROL=0
con isto funcionan as teclas de brillo da pantalla, o tema é que reinicio o sistema e volve a non funcionar.
Alguén ten idea d o xeito de fixar o cambio?
Grazas ;)
#ubuntu #macbook #ubuntustudio #linux

I'm super glad to be rid of M$ win7 and fully back with #UbuntuStudio, breathing new life into my 10 year old Dell desktop pc. Missing the luxury of Ableton's familiar workflow, but quickly filling the gap with #LMMS and #Ardour. Already got a dance track sketched in just a few days, most of which has been spent on familiarisation with the unknown. Now I'm the production bottleneck; sample libraries vs original recordings, self doubt as a composer, the usual. Composition encouragement welcome :)

okay, so, I've been using @ubuntustudio as my daily driver for at least 2 weeks now, both in my 3 ys old desktop and my brand new laptop. slowly setting them up to serve my daily necessities and ideas has been a challenging and very fun process. here are some highlights, to those who are interested:

- KDE Connect is amazing and I love it;

- I decided to not use Ungoogled-Chromium in my Ubuntu installs, opting instead for LibreWolf as my main web browser, with Falkon and Firefox as my backups (I intend to do the same in my Windows installs as well);

- finding FOSS equivalents in Ubuntu to things I'd do with proprietary software in Windows is extremely satisfactory;

I can't wait to start exploring the creative software that came packed with the OS, not only to know and play with them but also to decide what stays and what goes.

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Thanks to all those who tried to help.

The problem is primarily that #LinuxMint, which is otherwise acceptable for me as a distro, is hopelessly broken in its #pipewire setup, especially if you need pipewire-jack, as I do.

It's all a bit fuzzy now, but by default pipewire-jack is not even installed, and if you install it it still doesn't work right.

It doesn't respect the env variable for setting buffer size and sample rate. I think it obeys the conf file in some circumstances, but editing the conf file is the only way to change the settings!

BTW if you are on Mint *don't* install the ubuntustudio-default-settings package think it will help - it won't it will simply stop pipewire from responding to the conf file so there's no way to set the buffer and rate at all! Removing it won't undo this either!

So having established that the mint pipewire is fucked, I thought I'd try #ubuntustudio. However I wanted to use cinnamon as I'm used to it -so, I installed ubuntu cinnamon flavor and used the ubuntu studio installer over it to convert it.

This sort of worked... but it resulted in an install where the ONLY way to change pipewire settings was the ubuntu studio gui. which is the sort of gui that linux people write to make you wish you'd just used the terminal. Waaay too many clicks, plus a line of typing, plus enter your password, just to change buffer size!

ffs it should be a dropdown menu in the panel!

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SWITCHING TO #LINUX & LEARNING CLI

After trying out a couple of distros on an old laptop, now my media laptop has successfully transitioned to #ubuntustudio and I’m very happy with it so far! 🤗

It only took a couple of attempts because I messed up the first installation, had to re-do it (like 3x^^) to get the partitions right - learned: manually setting up partition tables 🦾

Next step:
recording and processing some audio with the pre-installed DAW, see if everything works as I need it to..

I decided to just manually redial some of my songs' guitar tones & effects in with the plugins that come with Ubuntu Studio since I've been experimenting with Ardour.

So far I've got Love Letter to the Night sounding pretty close and a few other new songs I've been working on.

I'm basically just finding equivalent plugins and copying any settings I can into the other plugins. I use common amp models like AC30.

On #UbuntuStudio (#KDE Plasma) I have the large monitor positioned above the laptop, but this means the default placement on older apps (that require a terminal) is way up in the top corner, presumably because it is the properly-placed-in-S1 terminal that launches it. So, on open, I must Alt-F3, then s, then return because Screen 1 is top of the list. Similarly in Dolphin when I select the menu, the menu appears in Screen 2.

Is there some way to have the launcher force apps default to Screen 1?

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@constancies

I'm running the DE selected by #UbuntuStudio, because I'm assuming they have tooled this well for audio work, which is what I try to do with my time. I can use zoom settings in all my important stuff (unlike in Windows) so I'm strictly looking for a bit more convenience without tipping the apple cart.

I am neither for nor against any particular windowing engine, I just wish the ecosystem would fully transition soon. I will wait till the Studio team is ready for Wayland.