Harrison Mixbus is a fantastic piece of software, a modern DAW that gives you the “traditional” analog mixing workflow. But there seems to be a thing that bites with Ubuntu Studio 18.04 and 18.10. I had a problem with Harrison Mixbus version 5 and 5.1 (new update). Harrison Mixbus crashes during the starting phase, after selecting the Jack driver. Which is strange as Ardour 5.x seems to work fine. This is how I fixed it…
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Converting amSynthPreset to LV2 standards
As I created many amSynth presets for standalone usage, I needed to convert them to a different standard as I wanted to use them within the LV2 plugin version of amSynth. I converted the first presets by hand, which was a painstaking experience. As I had many more to go, I wondered whether I could automate this process. With trial and error, I created a script. It uses a template, copies it, and replaces the values from the given preset.
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As I was looking for a new (smaller) MIDI keyboard for my home studio, my eyes fell in love with the “basic” looking LINE 6 Mobile Keys 25. Reading the specs this could easily be my next big studio love… The next question popped up, would the LINE 6 Mobile Keys 25 be compatible with my Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)!?
Continue reading “LINE 6 Mobile Keys 25 on Ubuntu Studio 12.04”Ubuntu upgrade resulting in a no sound situation
After working happily a couple of months with Ubuntu 10.04 I installed a new kernel with the update feature. This resulted in not having any sound or volume controls. After reading a lot on internet articles I found the following article… Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide v0.5e I followed the following commands that brought back sound to my notebook.
Getting the ALSA drivers from a *fresh* kernel
Sometimes, sound might be configured correctly, but for some reason or another (tinkering) it stops working. One way to go back to the old setup is to reinstall Ubuntu. However, this step is actually quite unnecessary since you are reinstalling everything because of one thing.
A faster way, is to just remove the problematic packages and reinstall them cleanly.
Step – 1: Remove these packages
Code:
| sudo apt-get –purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils |
Step – 2: Reinstall those same packages
Code:
| sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils |
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VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Ubuntu (GNOME) users have reported that packages ‘gdm’ and ‘ubuntu-desktop’ are removed after removing the linux-sound-base packages. If this happens, then do the following
Code:
| sudo apt-get install gdm ubuntu-desktop |
Step – 3: Reboot
Getting Broadcom STA to work on Ubuntu Studio 13.04 or Xubuntu
As I upgraded Ubuntu Studio 12.10 to Ubuntu Studio 13.04 on my Mac Book 5.1 my wireless stopped working… After surfing the internet for a couple of days I’ve found the following solution to enable the Broadcom STA on my Mac Book 5.1.
Check whether Ubuntu sees your Broadcom STA device by running the lspci command from a terminal:
| lspci | grep Network |
After using the the lspci command you should get something like this:
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
Next up is, installing the drivers. To install the drivers run the following command using the terminal:
| sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer |
The broadcom-sta-common package, blacklists the b43 driver.
To fix this you need to edit the file: /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf
You can do that by using the following command in the terminal:
| sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf |
Delete or comment out with a “#” the line “blacklist b43”, my file looks like this:
| # wl module from Broadcom conflicts with the following modules: # blacklist b43 blacklist b43legacy blacklist b44 blacklist bcma blacklist brcm80211 blacklist brcmsmac blacklist ssb |
Then to force the module to load during boot by using the following command in the terminal:
| sudo nano /etc/modules |
Then add a line with “b43”, my /etc/modules file looks like this:
| # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded # at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with “#” are ignored. lp rtc b43 |
You don’t need to reboot your computer as you can load the module manually by entering the following command in the terminal:
| sudo modprobe b43 |
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