a day in the life of wayne ward….

Ok i took the plunge!! I looked into it and i see you can add the real time kernel to open suse 11 so i can still record + i get kde 4! and kontact the latest kontact !!
I got the live cd image down which took 3 hours?? for a 600 meg image! oh well….
I popped in the cd got a live desktop – nice looking apart from not configuring me second monitor i thoght well this will be okay after a reboot job ive seen this during a install before!! Anyway started the install and it kicked of about a partion problem which ive never seen before!! Anyway i thought nothing of it! got through the install which was fairly fast!!!!
reboot
Second monitor still doesnt work and isnt detected!! hell! ok ill try and sort that after !
Tried kontact ran through the kolab wizard all goes fine!!!
Try kontact not fine !! agggghhh!!!
After a hour of messing and noticing that half of the apps are for kde 3 and not getting the second monitor to work i thought stuff this ive made a BIG mistake here get back to 64studio which well works!!
Went for the reinstall i have to add a line when im starting the install so it see’s the sata drives
install generic.all_deneric_ide=1
and then it works all cool
apart from suse had removed and stuffed up my data drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shit!!! luckily enough i have all my photos on my laptop!!! which i lost once before and it was a nightmare
But i lost my game collection yes all my top games!!
and wait for it!!!!! my music collection nnnnnoooooooooooooo!!!!!!
I cant tell you how long it took to build this.
Im now looking through my backups
All i can say is be careful back your data up!!!!!!!
And use debian!!!! its never mashed my data before!!
Trust me this wasnt a human mistake this was done by suse Ive been doing this for a long time
now and I wouldnt make these mistakes!!!!!!! baaaaaaaa!

This was one of our extra meetings we added on the third week of the month as we had a home demonstration on linux audio on editing on 64studio by andy at his place.

Present : ken – dave – wayne – andy – mark & richard

Andy showed us audacity – qjackctl – ardour & rezound

I missed the first half hour or so but seems we had a demo on the jackd server and how qjackctl controls it.

Also they discussed the firewire hardware connected to the latop which we can connect various external connections including a balanced microphone connection (XLR) with phantom power and a jack socket connection for guitar also has a spdif connection for digital audio. Then we just connect this into various programs using qjackctl.

We did some simple editing with audacity and rezound. Then we opened the amazing adour and put some guitar and multitrack drum down. Then we sent the these two tracks to another bus and added effects to the two tracks a bit of reverb and some flanger and panned the tracks a bit to add the stereo feel !!

The demo was very good and andy explained this very well !! We also may be looking at extending the demonstration in a month or so and adding the midi functionality to what we was doing tonight !!!

The plugins we were using were ladspa plugins and are available through apt. read more for info…

Ladspa plugins available

mcp-plugins – LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth
caps – C* Audio Plugin Suite
swh-plugins – Steve Harris’s LADSPA plugins
tap-plugins – Tom’s Audio Processing LADSPA plugins
blop – Bandlimited wavetable-based oscillator plugins for LADSPA hosts
cmt – Computer Music Toolkit (cmt) a collection of LADSPA plugins
fil-plugins – parametric equalizer LADSPA plugin
omins – a collection of LADSPA plugins aimed at modular synthesizers
vcf – audio EQ biquad filters for LADSPA

apt-get install mcp-plugins caps swh-plugins tap-plugins blop cmt fil-plugins omins vcf

64studio is a linux – debian based distro setup for video / audio editing out of the box more information here

http://64studio.com/

If you are trying to install 64studio but it wont see your disk controllers try this:
boot from the cd and when it comes to the screen that says debian and its says boot type
linux generic.all_generic_ide=1 press enter
and this will install the standard controller drivers then the distro will see your hardisk
Works on mine and I have a new via chipset

Failing that i seen on sidux someone is compiling there own realtime kernel that you can pull with apt!

Wayne