<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">I'm still stuck at the same initial part.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Jason:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Thanks for your detailed and extensive info. It will all be very useful, but first I need to get past some initial setup issue.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">When I click Start, I first get a dialog box that says "Audio device not valid". When I click OK, then <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span>I got a second dialog box saying</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">"Failed to start or connect to audio-engine.<br> Latency calibration requires a working audio interface."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">In my prior email, I neglected to mention the first dialog box. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">I searched and found some info, such as <a href="https://discourse.ardour.org/t/ardour-install-prob/90016">https://discourse.ardour.org/t/ardour-install-prob/90016</a> but none of what I found is helping me so far.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Please help.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">LeRoy<br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">--<br>I am the Love of God, no matter what.<br>LeRoy<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"> Diener<br>213-<span>LEROYIZ</span><br>213-537-6949<br><a href="http://www.leroydiener.com/" target="_blank">www.leroydiener.com/</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"></span></span></span></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:52:41 -0700<br>
From: jason schaefer <<a href="mailto:js@jasonschaefer.com" target="_blank">js@jasonschaefer.com</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:nmglug@lists.nmglug.org" target="_blank">nmglug@lists.nmglug.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [nmglug] Can anyone suggest an audio recorder?<br>
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> In my menu section Sound & Video, Ardour5 is now added.<br>
> I opened Ardour. It guided me through the setup prior to first usage.<br>
> I completed that, accepting defaults.<br>
> I tried to start a New Session, but <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span>I got a dialog box saying<br>
> "Failed to start or connect to audio-engine.<br>
> Latency calibration requires a working audio interface."<br>
> I have not been able to get past that.<br>
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You can choose between ALSA sound system or the more advanced Jack sound<br>
server. I would recommend using ALSA for now. Select that as your "audio<br>
system" when creating a new Ardour session. Something like 44.1khz, 1024<br>
buffer and 2 periods should be fine for most internal audio cards.<br>
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Later, you can play with Jack. Use qjackctl to manage jackd, it makes it<br>
easy to view your application sound routing and change settings. Also,<br>
if you have two jack compatible softwares you can use jack to start both<br>
applications. An example would be to use one application to play a<br>
composition or a video and another to record. Jack can start the<br>
recording and playing at the same time and handle all the routing as<br>
well. Very cool stuff can be done with Jack.<br>
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> On a positive note, I am able to use Audacity, and I'm not in a big hurry.<br>
> Based on what you, Jason, wrote, I feel inclined to get Ardour<br>
> working, so I can use this. While it's nice to have options, I agree<br>
> that I may as well go straight to the best.<br>
> I'm looking forward to getting Ardour configured/set up, so I can use<br>
> this for most everything I want to do with audio recording.<br>
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This might help you get started <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arvPwZlU1ak" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arvPwZlU1ak</a><br>
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> Here's what I'm doing now with video and audio editing. I will<br>
> probably work on other projects in the future. This is just my current<br>
> project. I want to offer my yoga instruction by video. So, I am<br>
> recording videos of me doing specific yoga routines. When I have<br>
> access, I'm filming from two different angles. I will discard the<br>
> audio portion recorded while filming. Next, I do voice-over which is<br>
> me speaking instructions about how to do what I'm demonstrating in the<br>
> video. I might add a third audio track of background music. For this<br>
> project, I think the audio editing is simple, and I can do this in<br>
> kdenlive. I don't see any way to record audio in kdenlive. So, it may<br>
> be best to record the voice-over audio in ardour.<br>
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Yes, ardour with xjadeo seems like a perfect solution for your use case.<br>
"Session" -> "Open Video.." This will import your video and add it to<br>
your audio timeline so you can do voice overs and back tracks in sync<br>
with your vid, etc.<br>
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><br>
> Equipment I've started with now is my smartphone to record the video<br>
> and the mic in my laptop to record my voice-over.<br>
><br>
> I think I found a Zoom H2 from Amazon.com for $170. Is there a problem<br>
> with using the mic in my laptop?<br>
<br>
Your phone and laptop mic are not going to sound very good. You might be<br>
able to fix this with some filters (normalize, eq, compression). I only<br>
recommend the H2 because it sounds great and is portable and simple to use.<br>
<br>
You should look into condenser microphones for recording onto your<br>
laptop (ardour) directly. Maybe someone else has some experience with a<br>
inexpensive setup. I have a maudio fast track pro, it has phantom power<br>
for the mic. All this stuff can be found second hand for fairly cheap,<br>
just be careful for compatibility with gnulinux when buying audio<br>
interfaces. I know maudio is usually supported. I'm sure there is more<br>
supported hardware than when I was shopping for this stuff. The<br>
manufacturer won't be much help in this regard, so you might need to dig<br>
around the forums or try it yourself.<br>
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windscreens are your friend ;-)<br>
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