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

Gary M. Stewart wrote:

Sonar 8 brings up the Maudio application if you are running asio and wish
to play with the latency etc.

Is that M-Audio, the company that makes audio hardware and other stuff? Or is it
really an application called "Maudio?" (and if so, why the heck would they name it
that??????

No ASIO here that I know of unless it's something that ALSA provides for hardware
that can use it. I'm just using the computer's sound card.

Nuendo 3 does the same thing.
You have to select "control panel" which brings up the Maudio application.

I can open the hardware's control panel from a pulldown menu in Nuendo 4. If
I have a Mackie 1200F connected, it opens up the Mackie control panel (which
includes controls for its internal monitor mixer). If I'm using the ZED-R16, the same
pulldown menu opens its control panel. But If I just want to change the
sample rate, I can do that when I set up the project in Nuendo. The interface
gets the word and does what it needs to do.

Oh, you may have to turn up the mixer slider because for some reason Linux
defaults to 0 volume

Dammit! That finally happened to me. And the bugger also changed the "capture"
inputs from line to mic, which explained why I couldn't record (sorry - capture) anything
from the mixer I was using to feed the sound card's line input.

Do things change when you move the sliders?
What kind of audio card do you have?

The predictable ones do. It's the Intel thing build into the motherboard. I suppose I
could pull my Lynx L22 card out of my studio computer and try that, but other than
the Lynx, all of my audio computer I/O hardware is either Firewire or USB, and I
don't have a Firewire card in this computer.

don't even know how to "install" something on Linux yet.

It turns out that there are many ways to install something, all dependent on what
distribution you have. In this one, there's an Add/Remove item on the menu which
is how (at least one way) of installing software with this system. But unlike those
crippled home computers where you find the program (either as a download or
on a disk) and then click on it to install it, with this one, it goes out and finds the
program on the Internet if it isn't already on the local disk waitning to be installed,
downloads it if it's coming from the ether somewhere, and then installs it. It actually
works pretty well, but it's pretty generic with its searching.

For instance, I can't make heads or tails of any of the various media players that came with this
distribution. I just wanted to see if it would play a CD, so I thought that there might be
a Linux version of Winamp, with which I'm familar. It gave me a choice of several
media players, none of which were Winamp, none of which I exect were any better
than what I already had. But something's broken. It won't mount a CD, but if I ignore
the error message, I can find and read files from a disk. But with an audio CD in the
drive, it comes up with an error about not being able to find "sound-juicer." That's
apparently a CD ripper. I don't want to rip the CD, I just want to listen to it. Apparently
the system is set up to run that when it finds an audio CD, and I haven't yet stumbled
on where that's designated so I can change it, either to something that I know is on
the system or to not do anything and let me choose the probram.


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