Which Distro? Making Music
by scatterbrainz from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4X970)
Greetings Everyone,
Hello, I'm a little bit frustrated with linux right now. I do have a centos 7 server with univention running on it for file sharing. However, I can't seem to get the right distro for making music. I've tried out Centos 7 as a workstation because of its stability, but installing anything like ardour or jack or Qjack always ends up with errors. I've also tried it in Fedora 31. I'm sure there's some tweaks there I'm missing, as I tried Rosegarden in Fedora, but could not get the midi keyboard to translate into Rosegarden, and then something crashed, following a thread forcing a re-install.
Fast Forward to, today. I've just finished a hardware upgrade:
Specs:
Ryzen 5 3600x
32GB DDR4
GTX 760 (2GB) - Proprietary drivers installed (440.40 (i think)).
sda = 120GB SSD
/boot
/boot/efi
/swap
/
sdb && sdc (raid 1) 2x 500GB SSD
/home
/everything else
I have an external USB midi-keyboard - P105 (Yamaha)
I have a external USB Sound controller (UR12)
I have independently powered JBL LSR305 Monitor Speakers
Does anyone have a step by step start to finish to tutorial on how to get Ardour or Rosegarden or even LMMS up and running on ANY distribution (except ubuntu)
Currently running Fedora 31 (Kernel > 5.3.16-300.fc31.x86_64)
and XFCE version 4.14 (as I can't stand Gnome's layout.
I've looked up fedora docs and I follow it through, google it, and follow threads, and I seem to be getting more errors.
I've cleaned the repo and rebuilt it, still getting same errors (trying to install ardour).
So I'm fresh out of ideas, and more than a little bit frustrated.
Hoping someone can point me to a super stable distro (fedora / centos / others) that makes music (midi playback and so on), just a little bit easier. I know alot of dependencies need to be installed, and it needs tweaking, but error after error, gets..uh frustrating.
Thanks for reading...
Look forward to your suggestions.
Best ...and Happy New Year
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Hello, I'm a little bit frustrated with linux right now. I do have a centos 7 server with univention running on it for file sharing. However, I can't seem to get the right distro for making music. I've tried out Centos 7 as a workstation because of its stability, but installing anything like ardour or jack or Qjack always ends up with errors. I've also tried it in Fedora 31. I'm sure there's some tweaks there I'm missing, as I tried Rosegarden in Fedora, but could not get the midi keyboard to translate into Rosegarden, and then something crashed, following a thread forcing a re-install.
Fast Forward to, today. I've just finished a hardware upgrade:
Specs:
Ryzen 5 3600x
32GB DDR4
GTX 760 (2GB) - Proprietary drivers installed (440.40 (i think)).
sda = 120GB SSD
/boot
/boot/efi
/swap
/
sdb && sdc (raid 1) 2x 500GB SSD
/home
/everything else
I have an external USB midi-keyboard - P105 (Yamaha)
I have a external USB Sound controller (UR12)
I have independently powered JBL LSR305 Monitor Speakers
Does anyone have a step by step start to finish to tutorial on how to get Ardour or Rosegarden or even LMMS up and running on ANY distribution (except ubuntu)
Currently running Fedora 31 (Kernel > 5.3.16-300.fc31.x86_64)
and XFCE version 4.14 (as I can't stand Gnome's layout.
I've looked up fedora docs and I follow it through, google it, and follow threads, and I seem to be getting more errors.
I've cleaned the repo and rebuilt it, still getting same errors (trying to install ardour).
So I'm fresh out of ideas, and more than a little bit frustrated.
Hoping someone can point me to a super stable distro (fedora / centos / others) that makes music (midi playback and so on), just a little bit easier. I know alot of dependencies need to be installed, and it needs tweaking, but error after error, gets..uh frustrating.
Thanks for reading...
Look forward to your suggestions.
Best ...and Happy New Year
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