Multitrack Recording

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Multitrack Recording
started by: crazyb8ss

Posted by crazyb8ss on Dec. 23 2004,23:34

I fineally got DSL CD booting on my laptop, and i like it alot. It runs alot faster than my virus infested Win98 and it is much cleaner looking. The primary purpose of this laptop is to record music from my band. I was using Quartz Audio before because i liked its multitrack interface without much processor demands. I saw a linux compatible multitrack recording interface, but (forgive me for my ignorance) when something says its linux compatible does it mean with all linux or jus the big names like Red Hat and Suse? I realise that in order to add programs to my DSL i will have to HD install and I am willing to do that only if i know there is a good MultiTrack Audio Recording alternative to the one i am using with windows 98.

-Thanks for putting up wit da newbie!

Posted by ke4nt1 on Dec. 24 2004,01:19

Check out the audacity.dsl package.. in the repository..

The challenge you will find with true multi-tracking in the linux environment
will be the latency issues, and lack of support for simultaneous audio streams
with the oss sound drivers in DSL

DSL was never designed , and certainly never 'tweaked' for audio recording uses.

Have you looked into the Ardour or DeMuDi distros ?
They have low-latency kernels, JACK audio support, Alsa sound servers,
and many fine applications already built into the distros.
(i.e., no compiling ) , and they release updated distros frequently,
with an active musicianship/engineer user baseand forum for support.

The Ardour is red-hat based, and the DeMuDi is Debian based.

73
ke4nt

Posted by mikshaw on Dec. 24 2004,02:45

There's an Ardour distro???
I definitely want to check that out.

Posted by crazyb8ss on Dec. 24 2004,03:12

Audacity thats what its called. I dont need it for recording multiple tracks at once but just to be able to record a bass line, then go back through and add a drum line and stuff.

Posted by ke4nt1 on Dec. 24 2004,04:44

mikshaw...

My bad, justaposed my terms..

The Redhat version is called Agnula - not Ardour, which is a multitrack app.
The Debian version is called DeMuDi

sri for any confusion..

73
ke4nt

Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on Dec. 24 2004,12:29

Are those distros HDD-install-only, or can they be run as liveCDs? It's always good to be able to be able to try a new distro out without worrying about having to actually install it to harddrive (especially since I don't have enough space free for a full distro)

Posted by melange8272 on Jan. 07 2005,14:30

You may want to check out Dyne:bolic 1.4 as well. Nice livecd that has lots of audio/video progs, jack support, and can be set up to stream out audio & video. I think the site is dyne.org..

Posted by fang11 on Jan. 27 2005,03:08

to be safe incase DSL doesn't work for you i'd partition the hard drive and do an hard drive install on the partition you created that way win 98 is there for back up incase you need it which is what i've done i have windows XP and DSL on different partitions incase i need windows