[ubuntu-studio-devel] Virtual Instrument Gap and last update (Peter Reppert)

Thu Aug 27 16:25:35 UTC 2020

All,

Please ignore my question about audio going offline.  I just had to reset a
couple of things.  I may have missed the Studio Controls icon - after a
reboot, the menu was back to normal.  In controls, I was able to select
"USB device that should be Master" to my external soundcard.  I had also
attempted to restart pulse, but not sure whether that worked or contributed
to the fix.  And made sure Jack Setup was OK.  Did not test everything yet,
but I think I'm back on track and should be able to deal with it from here.

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> Hi, everyone.
>
> I upgraded to 20.04 and updated Wine - that solved pretty much all of my
> issues. Unfortunately, the last round of updates that just came out seem to
> have wreaked havoc with audio playback and Ubuntu Studio Console has gone
> missing (and I could not reinstall it).
>
> Details on that below, first the *good news*;
>
>
>    - New MIDI controller maps to Reaper and can set up CC#'s with VSTi's.
>    - Other controller issues fixed.
>    - Running Windows 10.
>    - ToneLIb GFX noise canceling works.
>    - Sticking with 32-bit VSTi for now, working fine.
>
>
> As to the bigger question I was trying to pose (future-proofing), I took
> some action:
>
>    - I did update the Audio Handbook Wiki with notes based on what I
>    learned doing the 20.04 upgrade.  I hope to keep working on that. Please
>    read and edit as you see fit.
>    - I did not approach any vendors or virtual instrument makers about
>    releasing/maintaining LInux versions of their software. I know it's
>    pie-in-the-sky, but ideally, Linux users should voice their preference
> to
>    run software natively  instead of relying on  Wine.
>    - Instead I asked a couple of YouTube channels who review music
>    free/shareware to review Ubuntu Studio if they have not already done
> so. If
>    I see other appropriate places, I'll keep making the same suggestion.
> Power
>    in numbers.
>    - This laptop still won't meet the specs for some of the latest and
>    greatest plugins, but now that's purely a hardware issue.  If I have
> maxed
>    out the RAM, I'll just replace this laptop. In the meantime, it's not
> like
>    there aren't oodles of virtual synths available.
>
> This should possibly be a separate thread, but now I've mentioned it...
>
> I don't know for certain that the last update caused my audio problem.
> Sound is choppy as in a square wave, regular interval.  This is with the
> DAW,  audio player, browser, anything that makes sound.  I should add all
> Jack audio connections that had been set up were disconnected.  Connecting
> Pulse to system out makes the choppy sound, otherwise it's mute.  And there
> are suddenly a lot of subfolders exploded in the Audio/Effects menu, I
> think because U. Studio Controls vanished.  There's been an alert pop-up
> "found a problem with you system. notify?" from the time I first upgraded
> last Friday, so maybe that's the real origin of this bug.  Did not look at
> error log yet and don't know what diagnostics to run.  For now I was just
> wondering if this is just me or a* known issue*?   I'm on an older Lenovo
> ThinkPad.
>
> Thanks again for the suggestions, they really helped!
>
> Pete
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