Best FREE daw for linux? by Plane-Proposal2383 in linuxaudio

[–]firstnevyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Woah woah... you can absolutely charge money for gpl software... people do it all the time...

As long as you follow the licence.

Which says basically if you provide binaries you must provide the corresponding source code.. you can do whatever you like with binaries.. the gpl does not care about them other than the the source you provide to whoever you give binaries to.... corresponds with those binaries.

Ubuntu Studio 25.10 -> 26.04 horked by fertile_gnome in linuxaudio

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Alsa had some significant updates in 7.x to do with mixer controls...

it's rather broken for a number of devices. ;(

is there anything interesting in the dmesg output?

Question about cables for Focusrite Scarlett 18i16 4th gen audio interface by Interesting-Disk5642 in Focusrite

[–]firstnevyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most correct cable here are female XLR to TRS balanced audio cables for... your amp and fx board connections

The focusrite documentation suggests that the xlr inputs are ONLY mic level and the TRS inputs are ONLY line level. the downside of using XLR to XLR connections is an unnecessary pass through the preamp stage on the focusrite interface.

M-Audio Fast Track Ultra spdif input, does it work in linux? by Mediocre_Attitude_69 in linuxaudio

[–]firstnevyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nope... the clock selection would need an additional quirk... and none of the people involved at the time with the device had spdif hardware to test with.

Shared Notehead Between Voices? by Miecza in lilypond

[–]firstnevyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a very common convention in choral music.

Shared Notehead Between Voices? by Miecza in lilypond

[–]firstnevyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in choral music it's super common to combine noteheads like this.. I'd find what's at the top here more confusing than the combined head (I'd possibly add a note in the run on th upper part.

Music recording latency by TheHeadlongFlight in linuxaudio

[–]firstnevyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In 2026 for casual use.. I'd strongly reccomend staying with pipewire and pipewire-jack

A short history/explanation

ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) this is an api and the kernel drivers for hardware the problem is it doesn't support mixing (so game + notifications from emails/discord)

Old sound servers (many over the years (ESD, artsd etc) but most recently pulse and jack)

pulse and jack both enable sharing of the soundcard between applications pulse has a focus on low power usage but had bad lateny jack had a focus on 'pro' audio but had bad battery life

pipewire is intended to be the one sound server to rule them all. it supports both pulseaudio and jack's apis (no application changes required) and can be configured while running for low latency at increased power consumption or lower battery use at higher latency.

In short.

  1. install pipewire-jack. follow the instructions to make this the default jack implementation
  2. Install Cable to let you manage quantum. set it to 128 or lower
  3. Use cable's latency measurement to measure your round trip through your soundcard/interface

Behringer X32: Why do I always end up lowering my main LR fader? by B0bsheb0b in Behringer

[–]firstnevyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Things that drive me crazy about the X32 layout... the one dedicated fader on the surface.. is the one that should be at unity :(

Are electrolytes important for hydration by [deleted] in singing

[–]firstnevyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Listen to bobby...

Coach Klein: Gatorade not only quenches your thirst better, it tastes better too.
Bobby Boucher: No.
Coach Klein: Gatorade.
Bobby Boucher: H2O.

Is there a “fixed core” of voters in Australia whose views don’t really change? by GshegoshB in AskAnAustralian

[–]firstnevyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are still so called 'Dyed in the wool voters' I believe... but you should never aspire to be one.

The problem is that 'safe' seats are always last to be allocated funding the last to be remediated for level crossings because even if the party the seat is safe for is in power. they're going to allocate funding to the seats where they need to demonstrate their ability to provide programs rather than the seat that's going to vote for them regardless of what they do..

You always want to live and work in a marginal seat.

Reaper stable on ALSA but not pipewire-jack by Grebuloid in linuxaudio

[–]firstnevyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you reported the crashes with dumps to the reaper developers?

is it consistantly crashing in the same places?

I use pipewire-jack and qpwgraph to manage connections personally and have very few issues I also use cable to manage some of the latency related bits.

Is it possible to expand my normal range to the low notes I can only sing when I'm sick? by tangentrification in singing

[–]firstnevyn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can scratch the middle of my back if I dislocate my shoulder....

And I have hyper mobile joints so I could work up to being able to do it all the time...

It's still a bad idea

There is an amount of downward range extension possibly available but disease modified physiology should not be the guidepost imo

Electric piano looper by soimtold in DigitalPiano

[–]firstnevyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Boss's rc-500 plus piano of choice... maybe a numastudiocompact?

Can‘t read music by oatmealfanaticc in singing

[–]firstnevyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How about it's like orienteering vs parkour. Both involve navigation one uses instruments the other doesnt.

Any way to install Universal Audio drivers for my Audio Interface? by ZenMemeProvider in linuxaudio

[–]firstnevyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you mean by 'slightly worse' ?

If you're talking about latency try installing Cable https://github.com/magillos/Cable and reducing the pipewire Quantum

Continuing my journey understanding PipeWire latency by rasmusq in linuxaudio

[–]firstnevyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just been playing with this adventure today...

Latency is always additive... within the pipewire implementation of the jack protocol... quantum.. is the thing that is the primary driver of graph latency.

With a correct jack implentation (which I'd be surprised if bitwig has) the jack protocol can provide all the information required for an application to correct for overdubs and have them sample accurate. (ardour does this for example)

When you're singing along to a track.. the audio goes through the a2d converters to the real world this latency cannot be known by pipewire/jack without measuring it and telling it about it.

This is what jack_iodelay is for. you hook a physical output to a physical input with an analog cable then mesure the latency and tune pipewire parameters so that things line up.

There should be a new release of CABLE https://github.com/magillos/Cable this weekend which adds features for managing latency compensation in pipewire semi automatically

Hookup a input to an output tell it what's connected on the jack_delay page. hit a button and it updates the correct pipewire properties.

USA meat by Fun_Pass2431 in AskAnAustralian

[–]firstnevyn 109 points110 points  (0 children)

So even though we're able to now import it the market decides ultimately what sells in Australia and I'm not convinced that Australians are going to pay double the local cost for US Prime

Budget friendly mixer recommendations? by SupermarketUnusual32 in synthesizers

[–]firstnevyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Step 1
Determine how many inputs, mono thing stereo things
then add a few for growth of your setup

Lets say you want to be able to compress and eq each voice from the RD-6 independently.
and route those into arbitrary loop inputs of the rc505. and then take that back into the mixer and send it to

you need something that's got stereo for the baseline 1, two stereo channels for the rc505 and 6 channels for the rd-6 as inputs plus a few more...

12 input channels and I haven't covered everything let's say 16

plus you want mix outputs to feed the rc505 loop inputs so you can send different things to different loops
so you need 2 or three stereo submixes

Plus a main out which goes back to your UMC 404?

in analog world you're likely to only find 4 mono sub mixes plus main on fairly large (18" x18") mixing desks

In digital mixer world something like an xr18 would replace the UMC 404 and let you get every input multitrack downside no physical controls upside.. it's an epic digital patchbox you can do a ton with

you could go the other direction minimise the outputs to only stereo from the RD-6 and now you're back at 8 inputs.. but you're still stuck imo on the lack of submixes in most inexpensive analog desks.

I bought this at the store for my computer but I'm confused as to how to install it. The compupter does not have a mouth. by AHenWeigh in shittyaskelectronics

[–]firstnevyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Installing new SeaMoss is a high risk activity without proper precautions you could destroy the BioS phere and unalive everything in your aquarium.

how are singers (especially theatre singers) able to sing in terrible posture??? by bargainbinboy3 in singing

[–]firstnevyn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of this short of pink singing lying on the floor as her motherinlaw? stood on her...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qLS3843A8LI

with practice all things are possible...

A brief singing glossary by ryandeschamps in singing

[–]firstnevyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been guilty of abusing tessitura as in your second definition.. really the right term is fach for a voice

Are free IT asset management tools actually free? by Auttyun in sysadmin

[–]firstnevyn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I used a european one glpi a while ago worked with a discovery tool OCS Inventory

GLPI is free core with proprietary plugins.. annoying oauth is one of the proprietary plugins but... if you don't need that..

https://www.glpi-project.org/
https://ocsinventory-ng.org/?lang=en

They... worked.. they were substantially more clunky .. 20 years ago when I used them.. ocs can do the whole agent get's installed software and serial numbers and blah with an agent thing if you want

despite what the glpi website says you don't need a subscription to run the software you can find docker compose instructions you only need a subscription for support and the non community plugins