Hi!
Long time Linux user here who is recently discovering how to use it with Music. My interests include recording simple audio, play-along practicing e.g. using AB repeats, making videos for YouTube upload and simple multi-track recording when my band needs it. I'm about a week in and have a working setup. Happy to answer and questions on it.
Distro
I've settled on Linux audio distro KXStudio after trying out AV Linux and UbuntuStudio. As its multi-boot, I can switch easily between them at boot time. I've a separate, mounted partition on my laptop HDD for all files (recordings, etc) that I want to share with all the distros and I back this partition up to Google Drive. See below of the partition setup.
Hardware
Laptop: Thinkpad X301 2GB RAM
USB audio devices
The apps I use are all integrated with each other, but had to do a lot of Googling and reading to get it all working how I want it. Screenshot from a recording today. Incidentally no webcam (integrated or modern Logitech C920) I've tried gives me sufficiently high FPS on this oldish laptop, so I've resorted to the video from myNexus 5X Moto G and will edit them together with Cinelerra or similar (I ended up using Kdenlive)
If you have multiple USB audio interfaces (I have four) then fixing them to ALSA indexes means that whenever you attach any one or more of them at the same time, they still, reliably, have the same unique identifier. This is important for automation, since you can simplify on-the-fly setup. e.g. Zoom B3 is configured to Index 5, so I can create a persistent audio connection to the Recording Room in Claudia. Here's the ALSA config to make this happen on KXLinux.
Long time Linux user here who is recently discovering how to use it with Music. My interests include recording simple audio, play-along practicing e.g. using AB repeats, making videos for YouTube upload and simple multi-track recording when my band needs it. I'm about a week in and have a working setup. Happy to answer and questions on it.
Distro
I've settled on Linux audio distro KXStudio after trying out AV Linux and UbuntuStudio. As its multi-boot, I can switch easily between them at boot time. I've a separate, mounted partition on my laptop HDD for all files (recordings, etc) that I want to share with all the distros and I back this partition up to Google Drive. See below of the partition setup.
Hardware
Laptop: Thinkpad X301 2GB RAM
USB audio devices
- Zoom B3 - I record my bass through this
- Apogee One - I playback through this into headphones
- Basses - Fender Precision '73 (with flats) , Lakland JO5 Skyline
The apps I use are all integrated with each other, but had to do a lot of Googling and reading to get it all working how I want it. Screenshot from a recording today. Incidentally no webcam (integrated or modern Logitech C920) I've tried gives me sufficiently high FPS on this oldish laptop, so I've resorted to the video from my
- ALSA - audio system, default on all modern Linux systems
- JACK - essential for powerful audio routing
- Cadence - automates JACK and ALSA (even PulseAudio) plugins and interoperation
- Claudia - audio session management which automates recording and playback
- Audacious - audio player
- TimeMachine - audio record into W64 format (advanced WAV)
- alsa_in , alsa_out - used to pipe audio into/from JACK
If you have multiple USB audio interfaces (I have four) then fixing them to ALSA indexes means that whenever you attach any one or more of them at the same time, they still, reliably, have the same unique identifier. This is important for automation, since you can simplify on-the-fly setup. e.g. Zoom B3 is configured to Index 5, so I can create a persistent audio connection to the Recording Room in Claudia. Here's the ALSA config to make this happen on KXLinux.
kiat@xmas:~$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-usb-devices.conf
#
# The first configuration line will put the FastTrack Pro at device number 5 with 24bit mode, max.
# 48kHz sampling mode, 2 inputs and 4 outputs. This is the default.
#
# See if any of these work!
#
# * 0×01 : use the device_setup parameter, always needed
# * 0×02 : enable digital output (channels 3,4)
# * 0×04 : use 48kHz-96kHz sampling rate, 8-48 kHz if not used
# * 0×08 : 24bit sampling rate
# * 0×10 : enable digital input (channels 3,4)
#
#==================================================================================
#
# CONFIGURATION LINES:
# options snd_usb_audio vid=0x0c60 pid=0x0003 device_setup=0x1 autoclock=1 index=3 enable=1
# 1 Apogee One 0c60:0003
# 2 Boss BR-80 0582:0130
# 3 Pandora PX5D 0944:0200
# 4 Zoom B3 1686:015f
# 6 Logitech C920 046d:082d
options snd slots=snd_hda_intel,snd_aloop
options snd_hda_intel index=0
options snd_aloop index=1
options snd_usb_audio vid=0x0c60,0x0582,0x0944,0x1686,0x046d pid=0x0003,0x0130,0x0200,0x015f,0x082d device_setup=0x1,0x1,0x1,0x1,0x1 index=2,3,4,5,6 enable=1,1,1,1,1
kiat@xmas:~$
kiat@xmas:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 128.0 GB, 128035676160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15566 cylinders, total 250069680 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c6998
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 4096574 2048256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 4096575 86012009 40957717+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 86012071 250067789 82027859+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 86012073 141306994 27647461 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 141307803 196603469 27647833+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 196603533 250067789 26732128+ 83 Linux
kiat@xmas:~$
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