Am Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:09:18 +0100
schrieb Hartmut Noack <[email protected]>: 

> In short: try a differnt distro. My first recommendations would be 
> AVLinux

Yes, an AVLinux DVD is always handy -- it's a pre-configured live system that 
you don't need to install to do audio work with. Just try it once; see if your 
tascam is detected there and then one could also try to identify what's missing 
in ubuntu. Meanwhile, you indeed can get some work done in AVLinux itself. 
Though, the current version has funny ardour2 behaviour when you try to 
disconnect/reconnect to JACK (it crashes with a wine dialog box, I guess the 
VST support is to blame). As long as you don't do that, you can get recordings 
done. I did;-)

But AVLinux is not that convenient when you want to install it as everyday 
system, IMHO. It is great when the existing collection of software does the job 
for you, though. And its rather static nature makes it easy not to bother for 
updates that just could break your working setup;-)

> (should have Alsa-firmwareloader on board) and Pure:Dyne. But 
> OpenSuse or Mandriva may do the job as well and they can be tweaked 
> quite easily for realtime-audio.
> I run Fedora plus CCRMA and OpenSuse 11.2 plus jengelh-Kernel and 
> pack-man packages. Both work very good for me...

I must say that ubuntu studio 10.04 also works nicely now for me. I got a 
recent kernel from "the" PPA (just forgot which one, but there is only one 
realtime/lowlatency/... variant for lucid, as I recall) and built Ardour 2 
myself to get the most recent version. I don't have much to complain right now 
(even with the FireWire setup;-). I'm don't exactly remember anymore what I did 
do to pulseaudio, but I do have things set up so that all sound goes through 
JACK.

> best of luck ;-)

And don't forget to "Have fun"! ;-)


Alrighty then,

Thomas.

PS: And yes, I would prefer a more rugged, stable Ardour 2 instead of Ardour 3 
that can do MIDI with another ton of bugs:-/
Have to look into traverso again ...

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