Your voice is so friendly and welcoming. I love your videos.

Not being able to deal with JACK was exactly why I gave up on Ubuntu studio years ago sadly. I ended up spending all my time troubleshooting, and when I finally got things working, all my creative drive was completely gone and replaced by frustration.

Hello from Sweden. Ty for a great live-stream. I just watched it since it was in the middle of the night when you was live. But that's the great thing with internet. You can almost always watch it later if needed. 😀 Looking forward to more livestreams and videos from you in 2023. Happy new year to you and the family.

@VeronicaExplains

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm hoping to do a few more livestreams in 2023 now that I've got an optimized workflow for it. And I'll make sure to swap between daytime and evening streams for my friends-not-in-my-hemisphere!

Love your content Veronica! Thanks for checking out my favorite Ubuntu! My kids use Ubuntu Studio on their home machines

@BigDavidShow

Жыл бұрын

I love ubuntu too

Thank you Veronica X. Linux multimedia education really needs some love.

Happy New Year Veronica! Have a great time!

I just found your chanel i really love it love these educational content

Best Linux install video ever ! ❤️

I had a Cobol course in ~1973, but I never used it. My company used SPL a dialect of PL/1 used for system programming. PL/1 another beast from the past! I'll be waiting for your Cobol video :)

Thanks for the stream and for the backup software suggestions. Now I know why I haven't tinkered all that much with the audio software in Ubuntu Studio. What a pain in the Jack. Hydrogen seems really cool though.

for so many years, i thought it was just me, but now i see it's JACK who has issues

I wish so much this distro had a Gnome version. And before anyone asks, yes I tried installing it but it behaved weirdly and I didn't care for the extra HD space it occupied because of both DE's. I really think this could be a distro that could bring many new creatives to Linux. I'll try again in a few years.

DVD Distribution discs only have enough space for the program but the system has to be online to be able to download the updates.

As far as Asobe, people have to get off the addiction. I get it. I used Cakewalk since as far back as the Twelve Tone days in the 90's. Also understand why Finale and Sibelius are loved, but it's not like Linux is without decent alternatives. They may not be as advanced, or focus on different stuff, but that doesn't mean they're broken or can't be improved upon. Becoming a part of the Linux community means you can add your voice end ideas, or even get creative and make your own filters, patches, instruments, etc.

Thanks for the Cobol explanation! I work on Linux connecting distributed platforms to the mainframe. Cobol is the most used to manage apps with millions of records/accounts (gov. finance. insurance).

Happy Friday!

I have used Linux for nearly 17 years and my go to for things like this is unplug everything except the computer. Load os, run OS and make sure things work then update OS. Then plug interfaces in. Linux can get grumpy if it has to many options when booting first time.

I was strugeling like you ! hahahaha

Thanks for the live stream, I did not catch it live, as I rarely catch anything live. I used Ubuntu Studio back in 2014 and it was decent, but now I am all Mint. I am curious how this newer version would work. I edit my videos on openshot, process my photos with Rawtherapee, and stream church service with OBS. Because Mint works so well, I would be hard pressed to switch, but I may throw it on a laptop for a trial run to check it out. Thanks for the videos.

Do you not have a guitar leed to connect from the guitar to the preamplifier.

Wow, I thought I was the only one that struggled with Ubuntu Studio. Now I use a Zoom r16 digital audio recorder and record directly into it. So much easier than an interface into a computer. I do still edit on a computer by taking the memory card out of my recorder and into a laptop. Then edit the tracks with Audacity or Reaper. There's also zero latency with audio recorders because they have direct monitoring

Your so cool... Love Ubuntu (Lubuntu). Kdenlive is ok and the latest version of Openshot is great, although you have to mess about abit to get the latest flatpack version on the website to work.

Hello Veronica! Love your content, from what I know in laptops if you disconnect the screen from the motherboard it will be forced to use the HDMI (or DP) to display the image. Maybe if you want you could check it to show us the grub menu in the future hahaha. It's very nice when dealing with broken screens.

Aww, I can't believe I just missed this by 3 hours. Stupid new years..

I remember my university's music lab used Mac with, I believe it was finale. Software wise, great. It was easy too use, whether note by note, or playing it out on the MIDI keyboard. Problem was, if you didn't save your progress frequently, you could lose it all when the Mac would suddenly decide to freeze up. Needless to say, save for a few quick class projects, I spent more time composing on my old IBM 486 Aptiva, or later my HP Win 98 after the Aptiva bit the dust (pretty sure the hard drive failed, but it was getting pretty laggy with all the changes in tech happening in the late 90's - early 2000's).

Apple Macs OS X is based on BSD UNIX there is a version of UBUNTU called UBUNTU-BSD which is UBUNTU+FreeBSD

Yeah, I prefer the mixer control over the nodes. I get that some like to play with the nodes, as if setting up some expensive advanced stereo, or a stage audio setup, or even a sound studio. But I prefer the sound and mixer board, and just mute and unsure what I need to.

I usually turn off power saving if I am running a mains powered computer.

I'm a great fan of Ubuntu Studio. A highly informative and fun presentation.

A fellow Minnesotan! Not too many KZreadrs I watch are from Minnesota, so that's pretty cool! I'm from Mora, which I think is roughly an hour or so away

@VeronicaExplains

Жыл бұрын

Hello there! Mora's a gorgeous town!

@zinsy23

Жыл бұрын

@@VeronicaExplains No way! You've been there?

@louaguado995

Ай бұрын

My in-laws lived in Crosby. It's in the middle of Minnesota, and in the middle of nowhere 😁

Thanks!

Using multiple Sound cards with JACK always gives me hassle. It's understandable when you think about the need to minimize latency when it was first developed, and adding multiple sound device I think was relatively recent in its life cycle. I figured out Jack after screwing around a while like I would with physical gear and then it clicked. I tried pipewire and it broke some of the software I was using to make music

@BeckettWarren

11 ай бұрын

This was on a Manjaro box

Funny, funny....how many times can we say..."I don't know jack"

Thank you. I always wondered if I'm the only one. This has been my experience with audio on Linux over the years. I always end up doing audio on Windows (gasp). I return every once in a while to Linux to see if its usable, but I want my music making to be focused on creating and not debugging.

@careymcmanus

Жыл бұрын

If you are willing to spend some money for a DAW you can bitwig as flatpack distribution which now also comes with pipewire support. Also bitwig supports the new CLAP plugin format which is a new open source plugin standard and many of the early adopters have linux builds of their plugins (I dont work for Bitwig I just like that they support linux and open source). I don't know if Ardour or Audacity support CLAP yet but fingers crossed they will (After the release of Musescore 4.0 I have a lot of hope for Audacity getting some love)

@joeturpin607

Жыл бұрын

@@careymcmanus thanks for the info. I may give it a try. Sure does look polished. Fingers crossed.

Google doesn't work that way. If someone clicks & clicks back quickly google knows you didn't find what you were looking for. If it happens a lot then the site gets moved further down the results for that search term.

Hi Veronica, you are a lovely person, also when you face the difficulty. Do you know Unfa? He produce electronic music only with free software. He has a KZread channel. Greetings from Italy 😊

I tried Ubuntu Studio several years ago, but got totally frustrated trying to make sense of Jack, and gave up. I just wanted to get back into playing instruments and thought that linking them to a computer would make it more enjoyable. But it wasn't! It's reassuring that it wasn't just me who found Jack overcomplicated and frustrating, and a shame newer versions of Studio haven't been made more user friendly.

I finally made the switch to Linux on my personal machine because of Bitwig Studio having a linux version. I had been wanting to do it for so long but I really didn't like Ardour (don't get me wrong I have a lot of love for Ardour and any open source DAWs and I hope to contribute to it in the future). So I was sooo happy when a commercial DAW finally made a linux release.

You gotta let us know how to learn VI by playing games!

@shrizza

Жыл бұрын

Nethack.

@albertackjay3462

Жыл бұрын

@@shrizza Thanks

unistal Jack if Jack is causing problems maybe it might have been better if Jack hadn't been installed.

Great content! Can ubuntu studio manage studio lighting effects?

Hello Veronica! Thanks for covering this topic. It seems like the audio situation on Linux has improved, albeit marginally. I feel very pessimistic regarding Linux as a suitable desktop audio replacement for macOS or Windows, at least for the immediate future. Audio on Linux has always been a painful experience for me, personally. Having said that, I was able to get a somewhat stable system working in my last attempt a couple years ago. I say somewhat because there were still issues that would prevent me from relying on it day-to-day. The biggest obstacle to surmount was finding drivers for my proprietary Firewire interface, which I was able to do thanks to the marvelous FFADO project. This seems to be the biggest showstopper for most, though I know more manufacturers are shipping class-compliant USB interfaces that should "just work" without the need for additional drivers. Always good to keep in mind when considering a Linux-based audio setup. Even after finding suitable open source drivers and installing the appropriate low-latency kernel, the amount of tweaking and adjusting that was required, especially with JACK, proved to be real pain. Not using JACK was not an option, as, at worst, things would generally not work. At best, I would just get repeated xruns and my audio interface would be mostly unusable. Once JACK was properly configured, everything did appear to work reasonably well -- with the notable exception of jack-pulseaudio-bridge, so I always had to switch devices when using global system audio or using my music programs. I am curious if the situation really has improved with PipeWire. I've read mixed results, but I definitely would like to hear your experience with that as the focal point of your Linux-based audio setup in the future, should you get around to experimenting with it :)

@VeronicaExplains

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this experience! On the subject of PipeWire- I have personally found it works much better for my workflow, which is actually quite simple most of the time (USB interface right into DAW). Keep in mind, I don't use amp sims or anything like that (I like to do as much of my sound shaping "in the amp" as I can get it). PipeWire on Pop!_OS and Fedora has been pretty simple for me. I have a FireWire interface in the basement which I used with FFADO years ago on my iMac running Ubuntu Studio. My workflow there was "I configured JACK one time and I never touched it again". JACK was... a thing, but it was a thing I eventually got working. I'd be interested to see if I can replicate the experience in 2023 (just need to find a FireWire card!). Where I think Linux-as-DAW-host needs work is in wizards. If GNOME and KDE added a pop-up bopping in to say "I can see you just plugged in an audio interface, do you want help connecting it?", that would be extremely useful to folks-getting-started. This would immediately make things more discoverable for the beginner!

In the 90's , Motorola, Ericsson and Nokia made Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) for mobile phones. The first application that I saw was a biorythm app. The second was a horoscope thingy. Nobody was impressed.

I've been using Ubuntu Studio for a while... I just don't use JACK. If an app needs JACK I find another app. I'm still using 20.04 because I like XFCE and it works for me. I'm using Appimage for LMMS and KDENLive. I'm looking forward to your video on KDENLIve.

I have not messed with jack but I got ALSA working with Renoise on Ubuntu... pretty cool, but window manager shenanigans happened with a VST plugin...

Darn. I couldn't make this. :( I'm watching it on a decade older Thinkpad t540p. :)

@VeronicaExplains Jack only supports one interface at a time. Use pipewire with

Hi vernica how do you write record to line in in Ubuntu studio

Was nice to see the stream live. And a nice stream it was ;-) One minor thing: I don't think you did an update straight after installation or did I miss it? It would not solve the issues I think but perhaps some would have been anyway. Keep them coming, happy new year!

@VeronicaExplains

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I did not update right away since it was a livestream and that gets boring (not sure that would impact things since the interface was picked up by Audacity, I just didn't know how to pipe the audio out so you could hear it). I know there were a few updates needed- I'll be taking a look at the device later this week and will probably do a follow-up video about Ubuntu Studio and JACK soon enough. :)

@peppe540

Жыл бұрын

@@VeronicaExplains ah yes, that would be great. Keep them coming!

@VeronicaExplains you don't need a real time kernel. Just add real time permissions to the kernel of your choice.

What do you think about Zorin?

I think if you had clicked on the graph button on qjackctl rather than the patchbay button you would have found everything you were looking for.

Does KDE connect work properly 🤨, sometimes it has a mind of its own (referring to behaviour of the app). I us KDE neon btw (I love KDE neon)

Kitty Wampas!

I so pale 😅

Microsoft Sway v Linux Sway.

I want to make content but only about system D

JACK and Pulse are doomed because Pipewire is better. If you like nodes, you can play with them all you want in Pipewire. If you don't, most things just work without it, and you don't have to have Pulse be the middle man you have to go through to switch between ALSA and and JACK. They just mostly work together through Pipewire. So, basically Pipewire replaces both JACK and Pulse. The agony of JACK and Pulse solved all in one. 😉👍

Stick with jack.

Its complex for a new person....

Your eyes have a slight parrallax

Carla could be annoying.

Ubuntu Studio is my favorite... but yeah the audio channels and alsa... and pulse... so many features and somtimes where did the sound gone to 🙂

It won't let me post the link, but go to the jack homepage for instructions on how to edit your /etc/security/limits.conf file for low latency performance on a generic kernel.

thanks for sharing 🙂 punky hehehe