On Sat, Aug 20, 2016, at 11:54 AM, Set Hallstrom wrote: > Hi Hank! > > On 2016-08-19 08:47, Hank Stanglow wrote: > > Hello, I am a Web Developer, Artist, Musician, and long time user of > > Ubuntu Studio. You guys do a great job! This distribution gives me the > > best out-of-box experience for Web Development and I find the Art and > > Publishing tools perfectly adequate for my needs. > > Thank you for reaching out with your input in such an uplifting tone! > > > Music and Video? Not > > so much, but this a problem for all Linux distributions. In fact, after > > seven years of fumbling with the JACK/ALSA/Pulse nightmare I've given up > > using native tools and now use WINE exclusively for audio work. Even KX > > Studio has more problems than I care to deal with and the only thing I > > take from its repos is wine-rt. If I were to make ONE suggestion for > > Ubuntu Studio it would be to have a super stable, low-latency WINE-rt > > environment for audio users (or good instructions on how to set one up). > > I agree that the state of Linux in terms of Music is tougher than > mainstream OS. Since i mainly record hardware electronics, it isn't much > of an issue for me personally. But lately I've grown pretty fond of > qtractor for ITB (In The Box) production with midi controlled Software > synthesizers. I have yet to finish a song to prove my point, but while > it is a little wilder than i remember ITB production from other OS'es, > it actually works :) For video editing i always have to point towards > blender's VSE which has become pretty awesome if one has got the time to > get familiar with its GUI. > > I'm not 100% sure, but i think wine isn't distributed because of the > license. However, your idea of creating good instruction on how to set > it up is an excellent one. In fact, we really need help with > documentation. If you have any spare time to share, you are welcome to > join the ubuntustudio-documentation team. Maybe pass by our IRC channel > sometime on freenode #ubuntustudio-devel and say hi?:) >
Wine is fully free. We have distributed it before. But, I've never tried wine-rt myself and it doesn't exist in Debian repos, and hence neither in Ubuntu repos. Someone would need to package it. If that happens, we can include it. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
