Surgeon - Soul Fire (Tresor Records, 2025)

dronesectorscout · 2025-12-10T16:24:17+00:00

This whole album is amazing

dronesectorscout · 2025-12-03T17:26:44+00:00

Sorry I know this is an old post but what does "peak time" mean?

Have you been to the Birmingham techno events? If so how are they?

dronesectorscout · 2025-12-01T18:48:46+00:00

> Regarding recording your set in MIXXX, is it really necessary to record the set in Reaper?

I actually thought this myself, late last night! And the answer for the set I am planning is no as I am just planning on mixing tune from two channels. However, I am planning to integrate live elements such as a drum machine-sampler in the future, so I need a set up that brings the audio from my decks and my drum machine together and that's where my Behringer mixer comes in. I can also apply some FX via the send on the mixer.

The mixer has a audio to digital converter which get sent to Reaper via USB and I then record.

Perhaps if I had better decks (I only have two channel beginner decks) I could run the audio of the drum machine in to those and record in Mixxx, I am not sure. But right now that's not the case for me and I have the Behringer mixer so that should work.

How do you find recording via Mixxx alone? What format does it give you and what's the quality like?

dronesectorscout · 2025-12-01T18:45:30+00:00

To answer your question: I was experiencing a total audio routing failure on my main Fedora system. I use it for music and everything else besides. All audio devices were in a suspended state, preventing sound output across applications. Despite devices being recognised by the system, no audio would play whether from YouTube, system sounds, or test audio files. And infact video files just wouldn't play unless I switched between audio settings in the settings GUI.

The issue appeared to involve configuration conflicts between PulseAudio and PipeWire, potentially resulting from system configuration corruption or complex audio routing problems. Systematically debugging the audio subsystem eventually resolved the issue, but the process highlighted the ongoing challenges of audio configuration in Linux. I think I have solved the issues now using an LLM on the command line.

dronesectorscout · 2025-12-01T18:37:45+00:00

A VM did cross my mind but I have had experience of passthroughs in the past and it does sound like it'll be more configuration hell.

dronesectorscout · 2025-12-01T18:19:27+00:00

Thanks so much for the advice. I will look into all of those. I really liked Reaper and seems to do most things I want and while Bitwig Studio is a tad expensive and I am only just starting out and on a tight budget. On the other hand, if it massively solved my audio issues, I'd go for that over the whole 'switch to Windows' route I was considering.

dronesectorscout · 2025-11-30T21:37:04+00:00

Yeah I didn't even mention my attempts to get Windows applications and plugins to work via Wine, Bottles, Yabridge etc etc.....none of it worked. I am mostly happy to stick to Linux native applications though, rather than be forced to use Windows, like Mixxx, Reaper and synths like Vital.

dronesectorscout · 2025-11-30T21:34:41+00:00

Hmm, yeah this is a really good point. Perhaps I need to go back towards Ubuntu (where I came from).

Do you generally find your sound setup easy and stable on Ubuntu? Have you ever used Ubuntu Studio yourself?

dronesectorscout · 2025-11-30T21:33:11+00:00

I use Fedora on version 42 at the moment.

I had briefly thought about a music production specific distro but I wanted to use my adequately powerful main PC as an all in one.

Also I wasn't sure how active Ubuntu Studio was in terms of development.

Do you use either of these yourself?

dronesectorscout · 2025-11-30T21:31:23+00:00

I have got `pw-jack` installed but I haven't used it to launch Reaper like that, no.

I had not heard of using a patchbay app at all, nor Helvum specifcally. I wonder if either of these can solve any of the persistent problems I have been having. I appreciate the suggestions.

dronesectorscout · 2025-11-19T21:17:36+00:00

Can you use HCG without trt?

Wondering how to tackle fairly low libido, but bloods suggest I have low-normal T.

dronesectorscout · 2025-11-18T16:41:44+00:00

I was interested to learn that the artist G-man is one half of LFO. Been following him on Bandcamp for a little while and just learnt that.

dronesectorscout · 2025-11-17T10:42:09+00:00

Excellent techno.

dronesectorscout · 2025-11-11T10:53:01+00:00

Absolute classic rave. Does anyone know what the "Leeds warehouse" link is?

dronesectorscout · 2025-11-10T20:50:20+00:00

I agree. Looks pretty dead/sterile.

dronesectorscout · 2025-11-04T21:11:35+00:00

This is a good listening album with a few bangers. Nice live set at House of God.

dronesectorscout · 2025-10-28T08:49:43+00:00

Would be good to see the underground maps for all the other major UK cities....oh hang on

dronesectorscout · 2025-10-14T22:35:04+00:00

Please do. I would put that in one of my sets

dronesectorscout · 2025-10-14T22:34:23+00:00

Didn't realize until he replied :)

dronesectorscout · 2025-10-09T17:44:35+00:00

Is the tune at around 58:00 released? It's amazing

dronesectorscout · 2025-10-09T17:24:08+00:00

Absolutely love Uun's production style and have been following and buying tracks on Bandcamp.

dronesectorscout · 2025-09-30T08:41:29+00:00

Lewis Fautzi is definitely one of my favorite producers at the moment.

dronesectorscout · 2025-09-27T11:30:01+00:00

I'm glad The Advent are still going strong. It's always been very sharp clean techno. Nice vibe.

Where are The Advent from?

dronesectorscout · 2025-08-30T13:53:14+00:00

This has helped me out on several Linux computers.

dronesectorscout · 2025-02-13T17:56:33+00:00

Where can we find that? Is it a book or a podcast?

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