[nmglug] Can anyone suggest an audio recorder?

[LeRoy Diener]

I'm still stuck at the same initial part.
Jason:
Thanks for your detailed and extensive info. It will all be very useful,
but first I need to get past some initial setup issue.
When I try to start a new session, I've been using all of the default
settings, which include ALSA as the Audio System, 44.1 kHz as the Sample
rate, 1024 samples as the Buffer size, 2 for Periods.
When I click Start, I first get a dialog box that says "Audio device not
valid". When I click OK, then I got a second dialog box saying
"Failed to start or connect to audio-engine.
 Latency calibration requires a working audio interface."
In my prior email, I neglected to mention the first dialog box.
I searched and found some info, such as
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/ardour-install-prob/90016 but none of what I
found is helping me so far.

Please help.
LeRoy
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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:52:41 -0700
> From: jason schaefer <js at jasonschaefer.com>
> To: nmglug at lists.nmglug.org
> Subject: Re: [nmglug] Can anyone suggest an audio recorder?
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> >
> > In my menu section Sound & Video, Ardour5 is now added.
> > I opened Ardour. It guided me through the setup prior to first usage.
> > I completed that, accepting defaults.
> > I tried to start a New Session, but I got a dialog box saying
> > "Failed to start or connect to audio-engine.
> > Latency calibration requires a working audio interface."
> > I have not been able to get past that.
>
> You can choose between ALSA sound system or the more advanced Jack sound
> server. I would recommend using ALSA for now. Select that as your "audio
> system" when creating a new Ardour session. Something like 44.1khz, 1024
> buffer and 2 periods should be fine for most internal audio cards.
>
> Later, you can play with Jack. Use qjackctl to manage jackd, it makes it
> easy to view your application sound routing and change settings. Also,
> if you have two jack compatible softwares you can use jack to start both
> applications. An example would be to use one application to play a
> composition or a video and another to record. Jack can start the
> recording and playing at the same time and handle all the routing as
> well. Very cool stuff can be done with Jack.
>
>
> >
> > On a positive note, I am able to use Audacity, and I'm not in a big
> hurry.
> > Based on what you, Jason, wrote, I feel inclined to get Ardour
> > working, so I can use this. While it's nice to have options, I agree
> > that I may as well go straight to the best.
> > I'm looking forward to getting Ardour configured/set up, so I can use
> > this for most everything I want to do with audio recording.
>
> This might help you get started
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arvPwZlU1ak
>
>
> >
> > Here's what I'm doing now with video and audio editing. I will
> > probably work on other projects in the future. This is just my current
> > project. I want to offer my yoga instruction by video. So, I am
> > recording videos of me doing specific yoga routines. When I have
> > access, I'm filming from two different angles. I will discard the
> > audio portion recorded while filming. Next, I do voice-over which is
> > me speaking instructions about how to do what I'm demonstrating in the
> > video. I might add a third audio track of background music. For this
> > project, I think the audio editing is simple, and I can do this in
> > kdenlive. I don't see any way to record audio in kdenlive. So, it may
> > be best to record the voice-over audio in ardour.
>
> Yes, ardour with xjadeo seems like a perfect solution for your use case.
> "Session" -> "Open Video.." This will import your video and add it to
> your audio timeline so you can do voice overs and back tracks in sync
> with your vid, etc.
>
>
> >
> > Equipment I've started with now is my smartphone to record the video
> > and the mic in my laptop to record my voice-over.
> >
> > I think I found a Zoom H2 from Amazon.com for $170. Is there a problem
> > with using the mic in my laptop?
>
> Your phone and laptop mic are not going to sound very good. You might be
> able to fix this with some filters (normalize, eq, compression). I only
> recommend the H2 because it sounds great and is portable and simple to use.
>
> You should look into condenser microphones for recording onto your
> laptop (ardour) directly. Maybe someone else has some experience with a
> inexpensive setup. I have a maudio fast track pro, it has phantom power
> for the mic. All this stuff can be found second hand for fairly cheap,
> just be careful for compatibility with gnulinux when buying audio
> interfaces. I know maudio is usually supported. I'm sure there is more
> supported hardware than when I was shopping for this stuff. The
> manufacturer won't be much help in this regard, so you might need to dig
> around the forums or try it yourself.
>
> windscreens are your friend ;-)
>
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