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Digidesign 002/003R clicks and pops gone

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I suggest testing your old digidesign 002/003R/003R+ with the latest Linux kernel ALSA firewire sound driver. Apparently the clicks and pops are gone! The tree is not quite merged into mainline kernel but you can get it from here with the right changes:https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git git hash 82b954a96c1550bae2cb1f1f4f084425ab237cd7 (or newer) Here is a link to at least […]

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Firefox with native JACK support

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Last year I wrote a duplex JACK audio backend for Firefox browser. It took a lot of negotiating with Mozilla people and they accepted most of the code. However, they won’t turn on JACK support in default builds. This currently requires –enable-jack to be added to the mozconfig at compile time. Thus I am providing […]

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Digidesign 002/003R/003R+ LINUX DRIVER!

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  Digidesign Digi002, 003 Rack and 003 Rack+ now work in the Linux kernel using this driver.   Please consider donating a token amount for this work if you find it useful. ^^ See above donate page. Get the driver code here on github. sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers dkms git clone git://git.zammit.org/snd-firewire-improve sudo ln […]

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Digidesign Mbox 2 Mini on Linux

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There does not currently exist a linux driver for Mbox 2 mini. I don’t have the hardware so I am not writing one either. This page is for driver discussion on this model. UPDATE 4/12/2010: The Mbox2 and Mbox2 Mini share the same USB ID and usb endpoints thus they are physically the same device […]

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JACK audio plugin – gate/expander with sidechain

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I decided to write my own audio plugin, a gate/expander, because I couldn’t find a good equivalent plugin. You can download a patch for calf-plugins git tree here. To fetch the plugin code and patch to my version: git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/calf.git calf cd calf git apply path-to-my.patch ./autogen.sh ./configure –enable-experimental make sudo make install I […]

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Digidesign Mbox 2: Linux driver provided!

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This is my unofficial Digidesign Mbox 2 driver for linux. Please consider donating $5 for further development of free software drivers for Digidesign hardware. Every little bit counts. For those of you who want the raw driver source, here it is as a kernel module [63kB]. It can be compiledfor the current running kernel as […]

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Installing professional audio software for Ubuntu Linux

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While Linux doesn’t have a piece of software that rivals the usability of Pro Tools, you can still do high-quality audio recording with Ardour DAW, a professional digital audio workstation. written for linux/osx. Also, you can use your linux machine as a virtual synthesiser by using VST instruments and recording directly into Ardour DAW. Currently, […]