Yeah I was referring to repos generally but I come from Ubuntu so PPA is the term I used incorrectly

As someone that prefers the repo method to the all-in-one package method, Arch is becoming more and more appealing

What do you use binary editing for?

Is binary editing the only reason to build something instead of using gedit?

Sadly so many rss feeds are just the first paragraph and not the whole article

I had no idea clementine I as abandoned! I wasn’t paying close attention. Time to jump to strawberry

But it’s not a usb stick, it’s an m.2 drive in an enclosure… So your second point doesn’t apply

Nice! I’m intrigued by pop os

Cool, thanks for the info!

Nice! So it completely replaces jackd/qjackctl? Can it sync transports?

Ubuntu. It’s working and I don’t have the time to try out other distros.

My audio set up is using jack on Ubuntu. If I were to start using pipewire, does it replace jack? Or do you use it alongside jack? I use mostly ardour, hydrogen, renoise and bitwig.

Have you tried the different interfaces that libreoffice has? Try switching to their ribbon-like ui and see if it matches what you are looking for.

What exactly are you missing?

Not sure about arch but one thing I’ve found takes up a fair amount of space is older kernel versions that remain installed

Not yet, I’m keen to have a go as it looks very flexible

In the past couple of years they’ve really ramped up development of tools for creating electronic music, such as the clip launcher and beat grid. I have only really used it for pro-tools style recording, when I started using it there wasn’t even any midi capability. I bet it’d be pretty good for electronic music now, given the right synth plugins.

My favourite thing about ardour is the work flow and the anywhere-to-anywhere audio routing.

I’ve been using it for 13 years and love it!

Here’s some music I used to make with Ardour, Hydrogen and Renoise: https://on.soundcloud.com/QrxQw

Hadn’t heard of this. The Readme says not to use this as it isn’t stable?

Until barrier/synergy works on wayland, I’ve got to stick with X

Nice, hadn’t seen this before. From the looks of the Ardour forum there is nobody currently looking at implementing the forum but they seem open to it. I would contribute but I only know python so probably not much use. I could write a ardour-dawproject translator in python but seems a bit pointless if someone goes and creates a proper implementation at some point anyway

Some new format for DAW session files that is compatible with all DAWs. I believe ardour can import protools files but I bet a lot. Of work went into that.

That is not what 96khz means. It doesn’t just mean it can store frequencies up to that frequency, it means that there are 96,000 samples every second, so you capture more detail in the waveform.

Having said that I’ll give anyone £1m if they can tell the difference between 48khz and 96khz. 96khz and 192khz should absolutely be used for capture but are absolutely not needed for playback.