<div dir="auto">Ardour is more like DAW. For simple recording and editing Audacity will suffice. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 12:51 PM Bob via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Is Ardour be a better choice for recording than Audacity?<br>
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--Bob<br>
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On 2020-12-21 12:37 p.m., Jim Ransone via Ale wrote:<br>
> As a relatively non-technical person who uses my computer for audio <br>
> stuff, having to deal with alsa, pulseaudio, and jack has been a <br>
> confusing hassle. What I gathered from spending way too much time <br>
> reading and watching tutorials to figure this stuff out is that alsa is <br>
> the base level, pulseaudio rides on top of that and handles audio for <br>
> most common applications but lacks the low-latency necessary for audio <br>
> recording. Hence the need for Jack. Then you need to figure out how to <br>
> make jack and pulseaudio play nice and function along side each other. <br>
> It's a mess. Thankfully, the new version of Ardour recommends just using <br>
> alsa by itself. It makes sense that this would be faster. And it <br>
> prevents me from spiraling down a rabbit hole of confusion trying to <br>
> figure out why my audio isn't working. So now I have no need for Jack at <br>
> all, and pulseaudio does whatever it does without bothering me. The only <br>
> downside is that when Ardour is running, youtube videos will not play. A <br>
> little annoying, but I can live with it.<br>
> <br>
> Jim<br>
> <br>
> On 12/21/20 12:17 PM, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:<br>
>> Or pick a distro that is already modified.<br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 11:55 AM Leam Hall via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a> <br>
>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
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>> On 12/21/20 11:50 AM, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:<br>
>> > On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 09:08:09 -0500<br>
>> > DJ-Pfulio via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> >> Someday, systemd and pulseaudio will be "fixed" by removal, which<br>
>> >> would be good.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > That day can't come fast enough.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > SteveT<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Steve Litt<br>
>> ><br>
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