On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Christopher Antila <crantila@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Qtractor from RPM Fusion may be quite buggy, but in no way have I had an > experience to consider it nearly unusable. I've been using it for quite > a while now, and it hasn't crashed once. Keep in mind, Qtractor is > still "Alpha" software, according to its SourceForge website. FYI -- the reason why I mentioned Qtractor is because I saw it absent in the guide URL you posted. I'm glad to see you're using it and hope your guide will include information on this premier Linux DAW. The other reason I mentioned it: Nicholas' reply suggested some very capable and complex tools that would all have to be explained, configured, interconnected, etc. This would be very discouraging to a student faced with the complexity explosion caused by combining Ardour, Qjackctl, and Hydrogen: That's why I suggested a more-integrated tool like Qtractor is appropriate to the student and beginners. Tools like Ardour would be more appropriate for the "pro" doing mastering. Regarding my statements about instability in RPMfusion versions of Qtractor. Note that I'm one of Qtractor's biggest fans -- which is why I always want the latest and best version. Some of the bugs depend on what you're doing with it. I basically abuse the software and do things that it wasn't expecting to be used for, and then i can crash it (although I'm usually impressed with the fact that it doesn't crash despite the abuse I throw at it). There's been enough fixes in subversion that I'm getting more stability just from having the svn directory around, and doing "svn up" once a week, then "make" and "make install" ... Here's one example of the kinds of bugs I'm talking about -- you won't see it unless you're using a multichannel audio interface and performing certain operations on audio buses ... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=733076&aid=3021645&group_id=135501 I've hit this bug too -- just fixed: http://qtractor.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/qtractor?view=revision&revision=1597 Niels http://nielsmayer.com PS: Regarding Mastering and Level setting ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Crantila/FSC/Recording/DAW_Common_Elements#Level ). Consider using http://www.64studio.com/book/export/html/1236 as a starting point ( from http://www.64studio.com/manual/audio ). Consider suggesting Bob Katz' "K System" http://www.digido.com/level-practices-part-2-includes-the-k-system.html which is implemented in Fons Adriaensen's jkmeter ( http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/downloads/jkmeter-0.4.0.tar.bz2 ) and available PlanetCCRMA's repositories. See also: http://old.nabble.com/First-release-of-jkmeter-td18798950.html http://old.nabble.com/digital-volume-sounds-better-at-0-dB--ts28928647.html _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
