Last Sunday 11 July 2004 00:01, R Parker was like: > > I'm using ardour 0.9beta11.2-2 on Debian testing and > > a Midiman Audiophile 2496 > > soundcard. > > That version of Ardour is pretty old. I'm not a Debian > user so I can't help with any of upgrade issues. I was > gonna suggest you upgrade but you are new to linux > that might not be the best advice. If that version of > Ardour has the features you need for learning and > working on your sessions don't bother. A 1.0 stable > release is expected soon enough that you could wait > for it. Hmm, this is a bit problematical. Ardour is probably changing too fast for Debian packagers to keep up with at a guess. If a stable release is on the horizon it's probably best for all of us to wait (that will be at _least_ two months for a Debian package to appear [0] ;-) I assume anyone following Ardour's development on Debian is compiling from CVS, which puts it out of range for newbies. That, and I'd also guess that a lot of Debian users would be happy to continue using ecasound. Well, that's true for me, anyway. I shouldn't generalise about others. I look at Ardour occasionally, sigh and think 'this is going to be _Magnificent_ - when it's finished'. Right now I wouldn't commit an important project to it. All in all, that's a fat lot of use to Sebastian. If it's a straightforward build, installing a more recent snapshot to /usr/local/bin/ might be an option. It depends how much of a learning curve you're ready for ;-] A stable release on the horizon is indeed good news. I'd love to see Debian Sarge go stable including stable versions of ALSA, JACK, Rosegarden and Ardour, I think it would be kind of neat. It would also provide a solid, reliable and user-friendly production environment (albeit with no guarantees, of course ;-). I'm not really expecting to see this manifest before the autumn. I think it will represent a major milestone in Linux Audio development, which is good enough for me, I have enough work to do just remastering some of my old stuff with JAMin and preparing new MIDI files. I have yet to get deeply into multitracking, so I'll probably shut up at this point (again, no guarantees ;-). cheers tim hall [0] if (length of time it takes one person with no free time to compile and package an application for 13 different architectures > length of time between minor releases) : Is it worth trying to keep up with frequent beta releases?
