[ardour-users] where do i start

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 15:54:14 PST 2005


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:20:19 +1000, vector <vector180 at aanet.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all
> I have no specific Q in this email just a big Im lost,, i need a hand to
> hold.
> 
> I realise long emails are a pain so i'll keep it as short as possible.
> I was once a winxp looser ;) but have spent the last 6 months playing
> with linux.
> My main reason? cakewalk was consistantly dropping its bundle right when
> you needed it to record.
> Im not a: pro,technican, IT or sound eng, just a muso trying to get his
> band up and going.
> ardour looked great so I started the slippery snake of linux.
> and this is where im at.
> im running debian on 3 or so machines. (sarge and ubuntu install) I have
> tried various others lately but im now used to apt-get and su root and
> really find other "flavours" confusing now.
> problem is im having trouble getting alsa and jack to take hold
> im like totally lost.
> some cd player apps work others dont
> ive never gotten ardour past the front "you dont have jack" message.
> I think its gotten confused with whatever audio drivers were originally
> loaded. I hoped ubuntu would help.I just installed it fresh on yet
> another machine because it uses ALSA but i notice now it doesnt have
> jack and when I apt-cache search ardour its not listed. so im lost yet
> again.
> 
> If anyone is willing to hold my hand and take me thru this one step at a
> time id really appreciate it.

Hi,
   Like Jan said I think it's going to require some specific hand
holding to help you get going if you're running Debian. I know nothing
of that distro. Also like Jan said, if you were willing ot entertain
taking one of those 3 machine and converting to Fedora Core 2 or 3
then I know you could get Ardour up and running using the Planet flow
in no more than a few hours. FC3 would be the fastest install but I'm
having some problems with the Planet kernels for FC3. FC2 is VERY
stable though and I can highly recommend trying that.

   One advantage of considering this is that you get a whole mailing
list devoted to that flow and lots of folks here run it.

   One other edgy option that works very well would be Gentoo but the
install it difficult to say the least and you'd have to learn a lot
about how portage works. The advantage to Gentoo is that you have
access to pretty much every piece of software out there and the apps
are easy to install once you inderstand the system. The downside is
you build everything from code over and over and over and over, and
then over again. ;-)

   You'll probably hear about some great Debian solutions also. I just
don't know about them.

Good luck,
Mark



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