Questions tagged [ardour]
Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. Ardour's intention is to provide digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use.
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./waf configure returns 'checking for alsa: not found.'
I am trying to install Ardour on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and have made sure I had alsa-utils installed and have reinstalled it countless times but no matter how much I do it using ./waf configure in the ...
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Can it be harmful to grant jackd realtime priority?
I am apt-get installing Ardour, a sound mixing program, just to try it out. Installing Ardour also installs JACK, a dependency. As part of the JACK installation script, I get the following dialog:
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Why apt asking to uninstall GIMP when installing ardour?
When running Ubuntu 19.04, I'm trying to install ardour, but apt is requesting to uninstall GIMP:
$ sudo apt install ardour
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state ...
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Need external (usb)Sound card suggestions that work with Ubuntu 12.04
I don't know if this is the right place to ask about this, but I'll give it a try.
I'm a linux user for a while now and I try to avoid opening Windows as much as possible. But for some things, I just ...
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No more sound after running Ardour
All the sound works perfect with all the applications on my system. But from the moment I launch Ardour, no more sound comes out from other application than Ardour. The easy way to get it back is to ...
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Are there any tutorials for Linux-based audio production? [closed]
I have been searching for a while for Linux based audio production tutorials. All I can find are tool based tutorials. For example I found tutorials on how to use jack, ardour, lmms ..etc. What I need ...
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Ardour, system has a limit for maximum amount of locked memory
After installing and starting Ardour I receive the following warning message:
WARNING: Your system has a limit for maximum amount of locked memory.
This might cause Ardour to run out of memory ...
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How to avoid XRUN callback skips
After I set QjackCtrl and Arour, I can record fine, but XRUN callback skips are annoying.
This is my QjackCtrl configuration:
In logs I see:
18:37:22.041 XRUN callback (97).
18:37:22.793 XRUN ...
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how can I record my acoustic guitar on Linux using Ardour and Rakarrak?
I'm running Linux, and was recommended to use Ardour and Rakarrak for recording, but I haven't even gotten Jackd to recognize my guitar. Currently, the guitar is connected with a 1/4" to 1/8" cable ...
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Side Chain in Ardour
Can someone familiar with Ardour 2.8 please make a video / youtube guide showing precisely how to use SC3 Side Chain Compression? I've read every guide online currently and side chain is simply not ...
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Ardour Doesn't show any plugin GUI
I have Ubuntu Studio with its version 5 of Ardour[Ardour 5.12.0
"Working Backwards" (rev 1:5.12.0-3)], but none of the plugins shows it. I read in a forum to find a checkbox in GUI configuration, but ...
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lv2 and lv2-dev libraries or equivalent
I'm compiling ardour3 from source and as far as I can tell I have all the libraries mentioned in http://ardour.org/building_ardour3
Unfortunately running ./waf configure gives the following error
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Can't compile Ardour: "Can't find -lfftw3f_threads"
I am trying to install Ardour from source. I successfully completed the configuration process after a few failed attempts and installing the required libraries. Now the installation process cancels ...
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UbuntuStdio jackd and Ardour scrambles all sound
I've been trying to get a simple recording setup working with Ardour 5 on UbuntuStudio 20.04. I first faced an issue with HDMI being the default and unable to capture through the mic port. I solved ...
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Ardour will not continue to record.
I just recently bought a laptop. It has 5.2 GB of RAM and 624.2 GB on the hard drive. However, after only a few minutes of playing into my MIDI keyboard I get an error message saying that "This disk ...
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Ubuntu Studio 20.04 + Ardour 5 + EMU 0404 PCI // Stereo-input for recording not working
I'm absolutely stuck on getting Ubuntu Studio 20.04 + Ardour 5 + EMU 0404 PCI
working as it should.
I installed Ubuntu Studio on an old PC of a buddy of mine. He wants to do some recordings and it is ...
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Building Ardour 5
I am trying to build ardour 5 on Ubuntu 17.10. When I try to configure it, it displays pkg -config => No How do I get pkg -config to work. I have searched all over but no answers because its not a ...
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How do you clean install a program?
I fear I may have deleted all of the loops in Ardour and would like to do a clean install. How do you do this?
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Ardour5 (or Ardour6) do not display any GUI windows
Either running from terminal or from menu. ardour windows do not appear
I've tried ardour5 and ardour6 (built from source)
Yet, if I create a new account it seems to work fine.
I've removed all of $...
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Does Ubuntu Studio come with Ardour installed?
Does Ubuntu Studio come with Ardour install?
Does it come with lifetime updates?
Sorry for the dumb question, I lack the skills to code or take a source code and make it into an app.
Thanks in ...
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Sampler Samplv1 remains silent - LV2 Plugin with Ardour 5
Update: can someone help how I can specify more details to help solve the issue?
I'm not getting any sound output.
Tried running the sampler Samplv1 (a polyphonic sampler) as a plugin in Ardour 5.
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Real time audio manipulation program
What I'd like to do is play back audio files (currently mp3, but I'd convert them if I had to), and perform basic audio manipulation on them, equalization, panning etc, and to be able to manipulate ...
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Ubuntu-Studio Plug-ins GUI broken in Ardour
I use Ubuntu-Studio 12.10 and here's my problem :
When I insert a plug-in on a track , I got a broken interface . I can use most of them without their respective interfaces , but most complex like ...
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How can I get taglib >= 1.9
I Try to build ardour 8.2 for sources but get a error when I run ./waf configure.
I get the message "taglib 1.9 not found". I am on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS.
When I try to build ardour 7.3, I get ...
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Trigger PipeWire To Conect Application to Application
When I launch an application (e.g. firefox or chrome) I just want to automatically connect that application to an ardour input and nothing else. Instead whenever I launch firefox, for example, it ...
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invalid index when installing Ardour after build
I have successfully compiled Ardour 6 from source, which I conclude because it runs and operates correctly when run up from its build directory as follows:
./ardev
However when I try to install it, I ...
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Install LSP plugins with .ttl extension in Ubuntu
I would like to install the LSP plugins in Ubuntu Studio 20.10. I know that Ubuntu Studio already has LSP plugins; however, there are several other plugins that I would like to use. The plugins, as ...
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How to start JACK server on Ubuntu?
I discovered that I am not able to start JACK server on my desktop running Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, which prevents me from running Ardour. I have tried a few things, which I found on Ask Ubuntu, but ...
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I'm getting no audio signal from Scarlett 2i4 into Ardour 6 on Ubuntu Studio 20.04
I recently installed Ardour 6.0.0 (as a download from the Ardour website) in Kubuntu 20.04, using Ubuntu Studio Installer to add packages and configurations. I also have Mixbux32C-6.0.0 and Ardour 5....
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How do you locate the source of a program in the Applications tab in the Sound settings in Ubuntu 18.04?
I was messing with some of the settings and audio software in Ubuntu 18.04 to try to make a plugin in ardour work. This involved downloading some plugins, and also installing and reinstalling multiple ...
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Connect Behringer crave USB MIDI to Ardour
I am trying to sync a Behringer crave over USB midi and control it from Ardour.
I can see it in lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1397:121e BEHRINGER International GmbH CRAVE
But not in amidi -l or ...
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Ardour .desktop file not executing [duplicate]
I have configured and built the source code for Ardour 5.4 successfully, and have been able to run it from the terminal after exported LD_LIBRARY_PATH to ~/.bashrc (for me, the path was /usr/local/lib/...
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Drumgizmo midi drum plugin with Ardour
Trying to install DrumGizmo (Midi Drum Plugin) as an LV2 Plugin for Ardour.
Update: Ok, DrumGizmo seems to be a part of the Ubuntu Packages.
Running a package search on packages.ubuntu.com returns:
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Recording through an M-Audio Fasttrack Pro into Ardour with Qjackctl - No Input Signal?
Update: linuxaudio states that the M-Audio Fast Track Pro can only work at 16 bit due to USB 1.1. http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/hw/m-audio_fast_track_pro
What does that mean to get it up and running? ...
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Wine Installation conflict with Ardour / Jack
i tried to install wine via the software center (version wine1.6 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4) and console. In both cases wine wants to uninstall Ardour, Jack, Rosegarden and a few more.
How can i install wine ...
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Ardour 3 Jackdbus not quitting
Is there a solution to the problem of jackdbus not quitting after Ardour closes in Ubuntu 14.04LTS?
I have seen other references to the problem but no solution. My workaround is to launch System ...
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No sound from Ardour or Hydrogen using JACK on new install of Ubuntu Studio 20 on 2013 Macbook Pro
On a 2013 Macbook Pro (Retina) with a new installation of Ubuntu Studio 20, no sound is being produced from Ardour (digital audio workstation) or Hydrogen (drums/sequencer) while JACK audio connection ...
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What is the purpose of .desktop files?
I installed Ardour 6.0.2 on Ubuntu 20.04. It apparently created and placed a ardourxxxxx.desktop file on my desktop. What's the deal with these files? Is it a shortcut? Should/Can I erase it?
The ...
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Can't compile and install ardour and jack2
On the left is JACK and on the right is ARDOUR.
To compile JACK,./configure --prefix=/usr/local/jack,but configure: error: ＊＊＊ a required header file is missing,I don't know what header file is ...
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Digitech USB multi-effect with Jack
I'm newbie in Ubuntu and I'm having a hard time to work with jack audio. I have started to use Ardour and the problem is the Jack server apparently does not recognize my digitech rp500 pedalboard ...
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How do I record from Ardour with Audacity?
Ok I am having this problem with Audacity. I tested a theory and this is what I have discovered. Audacity will record from an outside source, but when I set up Qjackctl and Ardour it stops recording. ...
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Connecting instruments and virtual amps to ardour in Ubuntu studio
I am using Ubuntu studio19.04. I have Behringer 320usb interface. I wish to connect my guitar to the guitarix virtual amp and record it using ardour. But I can't figure out how to connect guitarix and ...
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How to use DBG with a shell script program?
I'm having some problems with Ardour 4 in Ubuntu Studio 14.04 (it crashes in plugin search with the message 'segmentation fault (core dumped)'. So I’m trying to create a backtrace with DBG for it (in ...
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Why does the KDE login screen still lead me to GNOME?
This all occurred after I (1) Built/installed Ardour 3.3 (2) Used the automatic updater to install suggested updates and (3) Installed wine, tried to open the configuration file, everything stopped ...
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Ardour 3 and Superior Drummer
Is it possible to have Ardour3 working with Superior Drummer 2.0 ?
I own an Alessis DM10, just wanted to start playing with midi and superior drummer.
Another enviroment is welcome too.
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Ardour not recording audio on Ubuntu 22.04.4
I use Ubuntu 22.04.4, with KDE Plasma or XFCE as a desktop environment, for all of my multimedia design needs. I regularly record, using Audacity, from a Snowball Blue microphone, and it works fine. ...
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Ardour 8 crashes in ubuntu studio 24.04
I did a fresh install of Ubuntu Studio 24.04 lts, packed with pipewire and pipewire-jack by default. All sound works great, except Ardour 8.4.
Ardour runs, but when I click play, the sound is noisy ...
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Missing iris driver (iris_dri.so) and zink driver (zink_dri.so) for OpenGL (EGL)
I am running Ubuntu Studio 22.04 on a Dell desktop. I have an AMDGPU Radeon Pro WX7100 GPU. I have recently run into a problem with a plugin for Ardour/Harrison Mixbus. The graphics for the plugin ...
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OpenGL, Visual Code on Ubuntu Studio 22.04
Will installing Visual Code and OpenGL on Ubuntu Studio 22.04 have any negative effects on either audio in Ardour or video processing?
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Why does the usb audio latency change?
I'm a musician, not a programmer, so please try to tell me something as simply as possible.
Today's musicians are using USB audio interfaces. (Theese have dedicated drivers for Windows, and class ...
