Getting started with a DAW in Linux

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Re: Getting started with a DAW in Linux

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cd just means change directory. Of course you have to enter the directory name of your reaper install file.
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Re: Getting started with a DAW in Linux

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I think I start expirimenting with Ardour.
Installing Reaper with the terminal is too difficult since I don't know all these commands or what I'm exactly doing.
I appreciate all the help, but hearing all this command lines one after each other is too overwhelming for me.
To use the terminal I better learn the meaning of all this code first.
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Ok, but when you use Ardour, try to use Version 5.12. It's basically free, but you have to pay a small amount of money like 1€ / month to get it.
Do you want to record mainly or make music in the box?
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IllustratorPascal wrote:I think I start expirimenting with Ardour.
Installing Reaper with the terminal is too difficult since I don't know all these commands or what I'm exactly doing.
I appreciate all the help, but hearing all this command lines one after each other is too overwhelming for me.
To use the terminal I better learn the meaning of all this code first.
You even don't need the terminal (at least not for installing reaper :mrgreen: ) as I wrote above. Just extract the reaper tar-file and click with the mouse on the reaper file (the 8.4 MB file):

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Sure, but how do you get Ardour for free? Only via KXStudio AFAIK ..
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Ok. Don't know if he installed the KX repos ... I assume he didn't.
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42low wrote:
lilith wrote:Ok. Don't know if he installed the KX repos ... I assume he didn't.
I meanth the basic linux/ubuntu repos. Those are enough.
At least to test, right. They might be buggy as long they don 't come from KXStudio or from Ardour.org.
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Just as an example, I guess you will find a lot more comments (also from the Ardour devs):

https://discourse.ardour.org/t/newbie-h ... drop/88356
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Ardour 5.x loads all Ardour 5.x sessions, and more or less every older session too.

If you install from ardour.org 2, you can leave the existing version in place, if you wish to have “insurance”. You can always remove it later with the uninstall script that can be found inside the folder.

If you do not install from ardour.org 2, good luck! We don’t support 3rd party builds.
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/installi ... on/88269/3
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There's no difference if you install via synaptic or via terminal.
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42low wrote:If you install from the linux/ubuntu repo/softwarecentre it is NOT a 3rd party build!
That one from the ubuntu repo/softwarecentre does come DIRECTLY from Ardour itself! 100% guarantied genuine! :mrgreen:
Wrong information.
42low wrote: am talking about terminal and the linux/ubuntu repo. Which is guaranteed genuine, and confirmed by both linux/ubuntu AND Ardour. Both 1st party!
As well wrong.

The Ardour dev's use a "special" set of library's to build the Ardour executable they provide and support.
The versions in the software centre been build against the library set currently in use in the distribution you use.
That, may work, and, to be honest, it do in nearly all cases, but, this builds ain't be supported by the Ardour dev's and beehive in many aspect's different then the builds Ardour provide on there own.
The only exception on distribution builds, is indeed KXstudio, as the KXstudio repository contain indeed the original build from Ardour.

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Re: Getting started with a DAW in Linux

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Download Reaper.
Extract the Reaper.zip file.

A) Without installing:
Change in your filebrowser to the "REAPER" directory.
Double click on "reaper".
Click on "Execute".

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B) Install:
Change in your file browser to the "reaper-versionsnummer" directory.
Double click on "install-reaper.sh".
Click on "Run in terminal".

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IllustratorPascal wrote:I don't know all these commands or what I'm exactly doing.
GNU/LINUX@AUDIO ~ /Wiki $ Howto.Info wrote:Console: Use the tab key - press 2 times in a row - to complete the path or program name.
Help:

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Yours@LAW/DAW ~ $ man program_name
Yours@LAW/DAW ~ $ program_name --help

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man cd
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Re: Getting started with a DAW in Linux

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iggy /home/pop # emerge -a1v ardour

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   *] media-sound/ardour-9999:6::gentoo  USE="jack (-altivec) -doc" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx sse -3dnow" 0 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] 
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Re: Getting started with a DAW in Linux

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42low wrote:The linux distro version is original from ardour and is no 3rd party edition.
It's an official ardour version.
And it's a usual way to install.

What's wrong information?
42low wrote:It are different versions. I already said the linux repo version is an older one.
But it still is a 100% genuine ardour version.
Okay, I'll try to explain it one time for you.
Ardour provide ready to use binary's to download and install on there project page. Those binary's been build with a special selected set of third party library's witch Ardour use. Therefore they select carefully which version from every single library they use.

The distribution builds from a software center been build with whatever is currently in the repository of the distribution. There could be a couple of difference in the underlying library's, which could lead to a different beehive of the application (in this case Ardour). On top of it, distributions usually patch open-source apps to make them fit into there environment. Here, for example is the patch list debain use to build ardour, and that's, what at least goes to ubuntu as well:
https://sources.debian.org/patches/ardour/1:5.12.0-3/

As you see, there a all together 7 patches which change the source-code before they build it.

So it isn't a 100% Ardour version.

That's why the Ardour dev's ain't give support for users which have problem's with a version from a distribution. When you've ask them for support, the first question is, which version you use and were you get it from.

To get a 100% Ardour version you've to download it from ardour.org, that's it.
42low wrote:So there is nothing wrong with my information to install with sudo.
No, that's correct, that is exactly the true part. :)

Also true that Ardour mostly (if not ever) work well, when use the distribution version, but, as explained above, it isn't the same as what you get from Ardour.org, beside that it may be older, it is, as well build against a "unsupported set of library's" and patched.
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