[03:24] <Drumplayr> Hi. Anyone here?
[03:24] <holstein> \o/
[03:24] <Drumplayr> What's up???
[03:25] <holstein> not much... working on an album cover for my RPM challenge
[03:25] <Drumplayr> I'm a Ubuntu Studio Newbie and have a question.
[03:25] <holstein> sure...
[03:25] <Drumplayr> Sounds cool!
[03:26] <Drumplayr> I've got a Presonus Firepod connected via Firewire...
[03:26] <Drumplayr> and I was hoping to use my Sound Blaster Live! card for playback/monitor.
[03:27] <Drumplayr> But I can't seem to get the Firepod and the sound card to work at the same time.
[03:27] <holstein> i dont
[03:27] <holstein> i have the firepod too
[03:27] <holstein> i would just use it
[03:28] <holstein> AFAIK, you wont easily use alsa drivers for the SB and the ffado driver for the FW device at the same time with JACK
[03:28] <holstein> one way to go is to just let pulse use the SB and JACK use the firepod
[03:28] <holstein> personally, i would just not use that SB
[03:29] <Drumplayr> Is there a way to make pulse and jack work at the same time??? But I think you answered my question. It's probably not worth the time to figure out.
[03:30] <Drumplayr> I've been gathering parts for a couple years to build this box (I'm a poor musician). I finally got it built last night and have been up for 36 hours playing with it.
[03:31] <Drumplayr> A friend of my has a really good PC running Sonar. I built this machine on Linux so I can compare the perfomance.
[03:31] <holstein> for me.. i just start JACK with the firepod, and pulse is still running on my internal sound card
[03:32] <holstein> Drumplayr: i actually choose to use this software and linux for the performance
[03:35] <Drumplayr_> Srry bout that
[03:35] <Drumplayr_> So you can hear the playback while recording? I can't
[03:35] <holstein> Drumplayr: 11.10 has pulse routing to JACK
[03:35] <holstein> or is trying to at least
[03:35] <holstein> so, pulse stops, and tries to route through JACK
[03:35] <holstein> i personally dont want that, but whatever
[03:36] <Drumplayr_> In order to hear what I've recorded, I have to unload the firewire driver inside Jack and load ALSA in to Jack.
[03:36] <holstein> yeah?
[03:37] <holstein> why?
[03:37] <holstein> audacious plays audio files with JACK
[03:37] <Drumplayr_> I guess that's the newbie in me.
[03:37] <holstein> ardour is what i track in
[03:37] <holstein> i just play back there
[03:38] <Drumplayr_> oh.. so I'll give that a try.
[03:41] <Drumplayr_> So how do you get Audacious to play the audio files?
[03:41] <holstein> i just hit the play button
[03:41] <holstein> after setting the JACK output
[03:42] <Drumplayr_> Audacious doesn't show up in Jack. Gotta troubleshoot some more.
[03:42] <holstein> Drumplayr_: you have to set the output to JACK in audaious
[03:42] <holstein> audaciouse
[03:42] <holstein> then you have to play the file
[03:42] <holstein> then it shows up in JACK
[04:03] <Drumplayr_> Still not having any luck
[04:04] <Drumplayr_> Audacious shows up as a readable client but not a writable
[04:07] <holstein> Drumplayr_: not sure what to tell you
[04:08] <holstein> i would close it.. install VLC and the JACK plugin
[04:08] <holstein> or try aqualung
[04:08] <holstein> or just play the thing in the application you are tracking in to monitor
[04:10] <Drumplayr_> So basically you're saying I should find another application to be my output for ardour?
[04:11] <holstein> Drumplayr_: im saying just play it in ardour
[04:11] <holstein> OR, if audacious is giving you a hard time, try something else
[04:11] <holstein> my workflow doesnt consist of exporting tracks and then listening to them
[04:12] <holstein> i just listen in ardour, and mix/master.. or whatever and then export them
[04:12] <holstein> if i need to audition them further, i fire them up in audacious
[09:32]  * cwillu pokes /proc/sys/kernel_sched with a stick
[09:32] <cwillu> er, ./kernel/sched_* I mean
[09:33] <cwillu> anyone with any interesting opinions on any combination of jack, non rt kernels and pianoteq?
[09:34]  * cwillu seems to have such a thing working without xruns, but would like to compare notes re: what acceptable latency would typically be, etc
[13:49] <Riddell> "ubuntustudio-meta 0.97 produces uninstallable binaries: "
[23:40]  * cwillu listens to the echo


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