<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Shubham Mishra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mishrashubham2007@gmail.com" target="_blank">mishrashubham2007@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello People. After a long time I finally got around to try and record something. I have a fresh install of Ubuntu Studio 14.04 up and running and I have fiddled around with some of the programs and tried to do some stuff but I'm running into some problems. Note I am not only new to linux audio but new to audio recording in general so please bear with me if some of the questions sound stupid. At the moment I'm using my midi keyboard which is hooked up with a USB cable and I'm only going to do midi stuff right now although I'm planning to get a microphone later for vocals. So here we go<br>
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1. I seem to be running into xruns a lot (one every 2-3 minutes) and the settings which I have to bring jack so I don't get any dropouts at all brings the latency up to 40ms which is too high. I'm running this on my relatively old laptop using the built in sound card, which has a first gen i3 and 3 GB RAM. Now I have absolutely no idea about what kind of hardware is recommended for audio recording, so is this much enough? Because if it is, then I'm probably doing something wrong. I do have a desktop with a much better processor which I may have to use then, but no dedicated sound card.<br>
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I have Realtime enabled in JACK and enabled memlock in Ubuntu Studio controls. What else can I do reduce the latency? I have left the priority setting in qjackctl at default. Should I change that to something?<br>
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2. Is it ok to use rakarrack effects while recording or should I monitor just a clean signal and then apply effects later? I mean, does the extra processing add significant load to the CPU or are we talking on completely different scales here? Same with zynaddsubfx; should I use that while recording? I read somewhere that apparently it is not real time safe.<br>
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3. For monitoring while recording, is it better to route the midi signal through qtractor to the synth or to connect the keyboard directly to the synth?<br>
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4. On an unrelated note, how do sfz files work? Are they sort of like sf2 files, which I can just load up on Qsynth or something?<br>
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5. For the microphone, is it ok get a USB microphone? I heard that it's messy handling multiple sound cards with jack. If yes, then what is the best way to connect a microphone?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>OH!, i forgot to mention my opinion of USB mic's.. personally, i think they are great if they meet your needs.. they are "one trick pony" "uni-tasking" devices.. for example, you may be able to get a nice USB audio device and a nice actual mic for not much more cost than a decent USB mic, and those 2 things are *much* more versatile.. if you have a USB mic, for example, and you later decide to purchase a nicer preamp, you cant use it.. the USB audio device can also provide a nice instrument input, and be used as a fully functioning sound card.. so, for my money, i consider a USB mic to be a little bit of a wasted investment, unless the user is *only* doing something like a podcast, or only speech or one channel at a time with a mic.. good luck</div>
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Thanks<br>
Mish<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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