Re: Moving From ProTools to Linux? Good or bad?

Gary M. Stewart wrote:

With Windows sound is really done under the covers for the most part.
However, using Mudio Delta 1010 as an example, you do have to play with the
panel to set buffers, sample rates etc especially if using asio drivers so
it's really not *that* much different from using jack.

I've never had any M-Audio hardware, but I've found that when dealing with ASIO (which is about all I use nowadays except for Windows multimedia applications which seem to prefer WDM) most drivers are able to be controlled by the application. If you set the sample rate in Sound Forge, for example, that will be communicated to the driver, and then to the hardware. And a number of programs have the ability to call up the hardware's control panel from within the application, so while you may actually be talking to another program, the appearance is relatively transparent.

I believe you can start Jack by going into the system, services and
checking the start at boot box.

There's something called "Audio settings management (alsa-utils) that wasn't enabled. I enabled it and didn't see anything different. I still had to manually start JACK in order for audio applications to work. There's a setup option in JACK labeled "Start JACK audio server on application startup." I had hoped that this meant that JACK could tell when you started an application which requires its assistance (like Ardour) and it would start automatically. Apparently, in deference to Paul, JACK calls itself an application. All this means is that you don't have to click on the JACK Start button when you open it. It starts up by itself.

Oh, you may have to turn up the mixer slider because for some reason Linux
defaults to 0 volume
No the mixer for your soundcard.

There's a mixer that looks like a sound card mixer called QAMix. The sliders are all on 80 and seems to stay there. I don't think I'll ever get used to the input being called "capture" but that seems to be part of the Linux audio lexicon.

Look in the menus for a mixer and click on it.
If it's the alsa mixer you will see all the controls and they are labled
ADC and DAC among others.

Nothing like that in the little mixer that I found.

There is also a delta card specific mixer application, envy24 I believe,
which looks exactly like the Windows version of the Delta mixer.
Install that and it will work just like Windows.

No reason to install it since I don't have any Delta hardware. And I don't even know how to "install" something on Linux yet.




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