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Re: [Fedora-music-list] Good hardware specs for a "Fedora Music" box?
by Kyrian 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

> > Hi: > > What do you plan to do with your audio workstation? As you can > imagine, editing one file with Audacity is very different from running > a SuperCollider server for many users while simultaneously recording > its output with Ardour *and* broadcasting it on the Internet. > A very good point indeed. I would like to be able to record stuff from guitar, midi-keyboard, microphone, DJ setup (via line input I suppose), and then edit the results with the appropriate applications. Not all at once, but maybe 1-3 inputs at a time. The ability to play in real-time through the computer's output would be very important I think as I reckon it's much harder to work any other way. That's all I can think of right now. I currently have an SB Live with the LiveDrive thing, which has all the inputs I need, but I am thinking in terms of general system horsepower (RAM/CPU/disk etc). Finding a supported sound card it's really a problem, I'll just go with M-Audio for that. But I would like to know if I need to get one to do what I want. K. -- Kev Green, aka Kyrian. E: kyrian@ore.org WWW: http://kyrian.ore.org/ Linux/Security Contractor/LAMP Coder/ISP, via http://www.orenet.co.uk/ DJ via http://www.hellnoise.co.uk/ Human Rights left unattended may be Removed, or Destroyed, or Damaged by the Security Services.

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Re: [Fedora Update] [old_testing] rakarrack-0.2.0-5.fc8 / fc9
by Development discussions related to Fedora 27 Jan '26

27 Jan '26

updates(a)fedoraproject.org wrote: > The update for rakarrack-0.2.0-5.fc8 has been in 'testing' status for over 2 weeks. .. > ================================================================================ > rakarrack-0.2.0-5.fc8 > ================================================================================ > Update ID: FEDORA-2008-9033 > Release: Fedora 8 > Status: testing > Type: newpackage > Karma: 0 > Bugs: 455953 - Review Request: rakarrack - Audio effects processing rack > : for guitar > Notes: Initial build of rakarrack for fedora > Submitter: dtimms > Submitted: 2008-10-20 21:46:29 > Comments: dtimms - 2008-10-20 21:46:32 (karma 0) > This update has been submitted for testing > bodhi - 2008-10-23 16:35:19 (karma 0) > This update has been pushed to testing > > http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-9033 Hi fedora-music lovers, I would be keen for some feedback on whether rakarrack that is now in fedora testing works for you ? To fully test you'll need a guitar and pickup plugged into your soundcard, but even a go/nogo on whether it starts would be helpful. Where I developed the package, it works OK, but another older AMD machine, it fails during startup. This will help me to decide whether to push it to the F8,F9 updates repos. DaveT.

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whysynth doesn't work
by Florin Andrei 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

I got whysynth-dssi-20060122-7.src.rpm from here: http://people.redhat.com/green/FE/devel/ I rebuilt it on FC6 without problems. The thing is, the GUI doesn't show up. The program appears to be working, I see the outputs being automatically routed in qjackctl, but there's no GUI anywhere! ############################################### $ jack-dssi-host whysynth.so jack-dssi-host: Warning: DSSI path not set jack-dssi-host: Defaulting to "/usr/local/lib/dssi:/usr/lib/dssi:/home/florin/.dssi" jack-dssi-host: OSC URL is: osc.udp://rivendell.home.local:15040/dssi/whysynth/WhySynth/chan00 host: Ready WhySynth_gtk starting (pid 4305)... ############################################### -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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Low Latency vs. Real Time Kernel
by Brian Monroe 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

I've been spending a lot of time on the #opensourcemusicians channel talking to Ubuntu Studio users about their kernel and latency times they're getting. Seems like most of them are using g a stock kernel with the preemptive option enabled and they are getting great latency results (2ms)while utilizing the @audio group on their user. I ended up compiling my own low latency kernel and I haven't had any issues with it yet. If this is what we are missing for the spin I'd be happy to maintain packaging for the kernel. I know ccrma has been behind a few kernel releases. I saw the instructions for adding the real time patch for a tick less kernel and from what I can tell it wouldn't be hard to get that rolling as well. I'm not entirely sure what ccrma does differently with their kernels compared to other Linux users, and I'm still a bit of a noob so I could be off base with this, but I would reason that we should be able to just utilize the same settings to archive similar performance enhancements. I thought I read that ccrma uses a unique scheduler, but if we could get a 2ms latency time without it, the point may be moot.

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Recording Project!
by Brian Monroe 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Hey, I know I've mentioned this before, but I want to start working on it now: I would really like to do a community recording project. Non-musicians you can still have some input here with production and mastering (mixing). Largely It would be something that Fedora could use for other videos, or ambassadors could use as background music for the booths. Issues to tackle: 1 - Scope: My thoughts for the project is that the the entire project would be recorded and mastered on Fedora. Personally if someone has an effect that doesn't meet the Fedora Packaging standards, or they're using software from planet ccrma, or have their own samples, I don't care. I think the major thing is that it was done/recorded on Fedora. Thoughts? Might be cool if we have contributors do screencasts for part of their portion of the project as promo material for the spin. 2 - Track Lists: There is a few issues here... Personally I think instrumental music is going to be best since Vocals can be tough to do, plus when people take issue with songs it has something to do with vocals. Doesn't mean we can't do it, it's just raises the standard in someways. There's also an issue with copyright... Technically according to "Free Use" (actual legal term) we can cover any song as long as we don't pay for anything, or sell anything. (don't see how that'll be an issue) But what's best is if anyone has any music that they've written themselves. Style-wise I like Jazz (or Jazz-ish) Particularly since we could have an extended Solo section. If we have lots of people that play odd instruments (accordion, saw, oboe, band instruments, ect) we can have them be part of the project with an 8 bar solo. Doesn't mean we can't do a metal song or something epic, if someone has written something. What are you passionate about having in a recording? Folk music is also good since most of that was written pre 1922 and is public domain. I'm looking for specifics, s if you got thomething throw it out there. 3 - Album Name (or E.P. name) All I thought of Jam and Jelly. Suggestions? 4 - Remixes Tracks (since we'll have them) would be easy to remixes and could add an extra track or two 5 - Orchestration and Musicians I'm all for having this project as a democracy. If we have two guitarists, have them both submit tracks and we can vote on if we want to use one or the other, or both. Large part of this decision is on what tracks we move forward with, but at the minimum I play guitar and have access to good drummers and a bassist. So if someone else has a song, with bare-bones orchestration we can make this work.

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