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Ubuntu Studio

OmnutiaOmnutia
edited January 2008 in Technology
I heard a few people round here use Ubuntu studio and I'm thinking of installing it so I can have Jack in order to record a podcast and possibly recording Skype. Has anyone had any success with audio recording in Ubuntu studio?
My main problem in plain Ubuntu is that I want to record from an external USB sound device, record from Skype and that there aren't any guides I can find for installing JACK on plain Ubuntu. Can I solve any of these?

Comments

  • AprecheApreche
    You can install Jack on plain Ubuntu very easily.
    sudo aptitude install qjackctl
    Configuring Jack to do weird things will be difficult no matter what distro you use. I used Ubuntu Studio a few months ago. At that point in time, it was just the same as regular Ubuntu with a different set of default packages. It wasn't really fundamentally different in any way.
  • RymRym
    You're really best off just using two soundcards.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    edited January 2008
    Ok, that was surprisingly easy. Should I bother messing around with the low latency kernel?
    No, wait, it doesn't work. Buggery.
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  • AprecheApreche
    Ok, that was surprisingly easy. Should I bother messing around with the low latency kernel?
    It's all you.
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    No, wait, it doesn't work. Buggery.
    Is the low latency kernel the "real-time" (RT) kernel? Cause I use that everyday and have no issues with it.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    Right, JACK says it needs realtime which is in the repositories.
  • AprecheApreche
    No, wait, it doesn't work. Buggery.
    Is the low latency kernel the "real-time" (RT) kernel? Cause I use that everyday and have no issues with it.
    Why are you using the real-time kernel?
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    Because the technology is available and I feel the computer responds faster with it.
  • AprecheApreche
    Because the technology is available and I feel the computer responds faster with it.
    I don't think you really understand what they mean when they say real-time. It's not really something that is meant for, or optimized for, desktop computers. Any feeling you notice is probably psychological.
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    No, I understand exactly what it is, a fully preemptable kernel. Is it waaaaay faster, no, but it's just a little snappier. It actually seems a lot faster when I load it up with big I/O functions. If nothing else it's no slower than the standard generic kernel, the kernel developers spent a lot of time on it so you could use it seemless in place of a regular, voluntarily preemptable kernel.

    The bottomline is I use it for the same reason I use a 64-bit kernel, I like playing with an experimenting with new technology. My home computer has always been a toy first and a workhorse second.
  • AprecheApreche
    The bottomline is I use it for the same reason I use a 64-bit kernel, I like playing with an experimenting with new technology. My home computer has always been a toy first and a workhorse second.
    Yeah, those days are over for me. I used Gentoo for so long. Then I realized I was spending more time maintaining the computer itself than actually using it to do things. I was like a carpenter always polishing the saw without cutting any wood.
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