kxstudio repos + which OS? What do you like?

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Re: kxstudio repos + which OS? What do you like?

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Again, Thanks all!

I think I'm going to take a conservative approach and go with Debian-stable. If that doesn't work out then I'll go with Mint 18.

Again, thanks everyone. You gave me some great direction for my research and it comes much appreciated.
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Re: kxstudio repos + which OS? What do you like?

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FaTony wrote:Debian Testing + KXStudio repos. Almost no problems.
I about to do Debian Unstable + KXStudio. Your "almost" gave me pause... :-) Could you elaborate?
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finotti wrote:I about to do Debian Unstable + KXStudio. Your "almost" gave me pause... :-) Could you elaborate?
I kinda forgot what problems I was referring to. I think the only real problem was that fontconfig from KXStudio overwrote good Debian fonts with crappy Ubuntu fonts. I can't remember any other problem.
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Re: kxstudio repos + which OS? What do you like?

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FaTony wrote:
finotti wrote:I about to do Debian Unstable + KXStudio. Your "almost" gave me pause... :-) Could you elaborate?
I kinda forgot what problems I was referring to. I think the only real problem was that fontconfig from KXStudio overwrote good Debian fonts with crappy Ubuntu fonts. I can't remember any other problem.
Thank you very much for the reply!
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I use Ubuntu Budgie 16.04 with KXStudio repository. Works great and Budgie is really nice.
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finotti wrote:Thank you very much for the reply!
Hmm, it looks like that problem is not fixed yet. If you're gonna go Debian, before installing KXStudio repo lock the following packages: fontconfig, fonconfig-config, libfontconfig1. Do NOT install versions of these packages that have "ubuntu" in them.
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Re: kxstudio repos + which OS? What do you like?

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FaTony wrote:
finotti wrote:Thank you very much for the reply!
Hmm, it looks like that problem is not fixed yet. If you're gonna go Debian, before installing KXStudio repo lock the following packages: fontconfig, fonconfig-config, libfontconfig1. Do NOT install versions of these packages that have "ubuntu" in them.
I don't have access to my "test computer now", but I think that carla packages need fontconfig... So, does it just make it look bad or does it cause other problems?

EDIT: Indeed:

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root@siductionbox:/home/finotti/tmp/Ardour-5.6.0# apt depends carla-git
carla-git
  PreDepends: xz-utils
  Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15)
  Depends: libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0)
  Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.11.94)
  Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0)
 |Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx
  Depends: <libgl1>
    libgl1-mesa-glx
  Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8)
  Depends: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0)
  Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0)
  Depends: libmagic1 (>= 5.12)
  Depends: libqt5core5a (>= 5.5.0)
 |Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.3.0)
  Depends: <libqt5gui5-gles> (>= 5.3.0)
  Depends: libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.0.2)
  Depends: libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.5.3)
  Depends: libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.6.1)
  Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
  Depends: libuuid1 (>= 2.16)
  Depends: libx11-6
  Depends: libxft2 (>> 2.1.1)
  Depends: carla-data
  Depends: python3-liblo
  Depends: python3-pyqt5
  Depends: python3-pyqt5.qtsvg
  Breaks: carla
  Breaks: carla-git (<< 1.9.0+git20140613)
  Breaks: carla-lv2 (<< 1.9.5~git20141017.5)
  Breaks: carla-vst (<< 1.9.5~git20141017.5)
  Recommends: python3-rdflib
  Recommends: carla-lv2
  Recommends: carla-vst
  Recommends: mod-ui
  Recommends: python3-pyqt5.qtopengl
  Replaces: carla
  Replaces: carla-git (<< 1.9.0+git20140613)
  Replaces: carla-lv2 (<< 1.9.5~git20141017.5)
  Replaces: carla-vst (<< 1.9.5~git20141017.5)


root@siductionbox:/home/finotti/tmp/Ardour-5.6.0# apt policy libfontconfig1
libfontconfig1:
  Installed: 2.11.0-6.7
  Candidate: 2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1
  Version table:
     2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kxstudio-debian/gcc5/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
 *** 2.11.0-6.7 500
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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finotti wrote:So, does it just make it look bad or does it cause other problems?
It looks really bad on my monitor. I have stable Carla installed, I dunno why you'd want the git version.
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Re: kxstudio repos + which OS? What do you like?

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FaTony wrote:
finotti wrote:So, does it just make it look bad or does it cause other problems?
It looks really bad on my monitor. I have stable Carla installed, I dunno why you'd want the git version.
Thanks again for the reply.

After your comment, I did go with carla (non-git), but it seems that it does not work with Windows plugins, or at least I could not make it work. (I was trying this one: http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?pl ... B2&id=2493) Googling around, it seems that you need the git version for that. Also, to have the lv2 plugin (to use in ardour), it seems you need the git version:

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# apt install carla-lv2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  carla-data carla-git fontconfig-config libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dev python3-pyqt5.qtsvg
Recommended packages:
  carla-vst mod-ui python3-pyqt5.qtopengl
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  carla
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  carla-data carla-git carla-lv2 python3-pyqt5.qtsvg
The following packages will be upgraded:
  fontconfig-config libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dev
3 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 1 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
I will keep trying to avoid it though... Thanks for your input!
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Re: kxstudio repos + which OS? What do you like?

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falkTX wrote:I make carla, and I'm telling you the carla-git package is more stable than the normal carla one.
Please use carla-git package, specially since you seem to want to use windows plugins.
Thanks! It's great to know you hand around here! (It was your posts that I've seen about using Windows plugins.)

I am trying to be careful to not mix system files from KXStudio/Ubuntu with my Debian (Sid/unstable) system. I was going to take the plunge on carla-git (which pulls versions of libfontconfig1-dev, fontconfig-config, libfontconfig1 only), but to install all the packages necessary to run Windows plugins it would also pull jack from Ubuntu, which makes me a bit more reluctant:

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# apt -s install carla-git carla-bridge-linux32 carla-bridge-win32 carla-bridge-wine32 | grep ^Inst | grep -i Debian
Inst libfontconfig1-dev [2.11.0-6.7+b1] (2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1 GCC 5:16.04/xenial [amd64]) []
Inst fontconfig-config [2.11.0-6.7] (2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1 GCC 5:16.04/xenial [all]) []
Inst libfontconfig1 [2.11.0-6.7+b1] (2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1 GCC 5:16.04/xenial [amd64])
Inst libjack-jackd2-dev [1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-4+b1] (2:1.9.11~20161209-1~kxstudio5v5 GCC 5:16.04/xenial [amd64]) []
Inst jackd2-firewire [1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-4+b1] (2:1.9.11~20161209-1~kxstudio5v5 GCC 5:16.04/xenial [amd64]) []
Inst jackd2 [1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-4+b1] (2:1.9.11~20161209-1~kxstudio5v5 GCC 5:16.04/xenial [amd64]) [drumgizmo:amd64 audacity:amd64 meterbridge:amd64 zita-at1:amd64 yoshimi:amd64 libportaudio2:amd64 recordmydesktop:amd64 gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:amd64 zam-plugins:amd64 avidemux-plugins:amd64 zynaddsubfx:amd64 libfluidsynth1:amd64 mpv:amd64 libxine1-misc-plugins:amd64 a2jmidid:amd64 jack-tools:amd64 linuxsampler:amd64 qtractor:amd64 paulstretch:amd64 libavdevice56:amd64 libavdevice57:amd64 pulseaudio-module-jack:amd64 gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:amd64 libasound2-plugins:amd64 libxine2-misc-plugins:amd64 qjackctl:amd64 audacious-plugins:amd64 timidity:amd64 ladish:amd64 librtaudio5a:amd64 libmlt6:amd64 ]
Inst libjack-jackd2-0 [1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-4+b1] (2:1.9.11~20161209-1~kxstudio5v5 GCC 5:16.04/xenial [amd64])
Inst libjack-jackd2-0:i386 (2:1.9.11~20161209-1~kxstudio5v5 GCC 5:16.04/xenial [i386])
Inst carla-bridge-wine32:i386 (2:1.9.7+git20170107.2 Applications:14.04/trusty [i386])
Inst carla-bridge-win32 (2:1.9.7+git20170105 Applications:14.04/trusty [amd64])
Inst carla-data (2:1.9.7+git20170105v5 GCC 5:16.04/xenial [all])
Inst carla-git (2:1.9.7+git20170105v5 GCC 5:16.04/xenial [amd64])
I might try it in the future, anyway, but maybe I will try to finish my current project first.

Thanks a lot for your input and your contributions with carla (which seems like an awesome tool!) and posts in this forum!
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I use Ubuntu-mate + compiz+ kxstudio repos.

1.For me, it's very useful by using compiz for music production. I usually mixing 30+ tracks in Ardour ,but my laptop only owns a real screen. One screen is not enough for mixing, so I always extend my ardour mixer window to 4 virtual screens long. Then I can quickly switch screens by hotkey to handle diferent tracks. I only found I can do this way by compiz.
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2.Sometime we need to compare different midi tracks to make sure if our ideas are implemented correctly? (Use right notes in a chord). There is a simple module of Compiz can tune transparency of windows very easily. I often compare by this way:
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The foreground window is half transparent,so I can compare it to background one. Yah,guitar 3th 7th notes are right, bass root note right,singer's melody note is stay on right chord tone....etc. It make my job easier.
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