{"id":93,"date":"2010-04-15T00:24:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T07:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2010-04-15T00:24:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T07:24:37","slug":"you-been-holdin-out-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/you-been-holdin-out-on-me\/","title":{"rendered":"You been holdin' out on me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

j0, all you engineers and producers – you been holdin’ out<\/em> on me. How come never any of you felt it appropriate to explain to me exactly how goddamn useful automation is? Huh? ‘Cause damn<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And Ardour’s automation tools are both effective and easy to use! It’s freakishly unlike Ardour to be this way, so I’m appreciative. Even if it did assplode my machine today for a while, about which I will now rant.<\/p>\n

Because srsly, it was like some sort of goddamn movieOS crash. Windows popping up everywhere scrolling errors at machine rate? Persisting across reboots and hardware resets?That<\/em> was neat. I figured either something very obscure but trivial had happened and I’d lose a few hours to figuring it out, or I’d just lost weeks of work, ’cause I couldn’t even get Ardour stable enough to export individual tracks – no<\/em> audio sources or<\/em> sinks would stay online. I mean nothing<\/em> worked.<\/p>\n

So I started googling and eventually I found a French webaite talking avout something similar in another JackAudio<\/a>-enabled app environment and ended up reading up on PulseAudio, which Ubuntu Studio won’t let you not<\/em> install and<\/em> which plays very badly with JackAudio. So I spent a few hours in the guts of the install making it not<\/em> launch PulseAudio. (You can’t just uninstall it. APT also tries to uninstall the desktop manager as a dependancy. NOT FUNNY!)<\/p>\n

And that’s something I’d been wanting to do eventually, because it’s been problematic for me and causing performance problems, but I had it reasonably working some months ago – they’re supposed<\/em> to work together – and left it alone after that while I tried to get actual work done. But I guess the Time had Come, so I read up on how to force Ubuntu Studio not<\/em> to launch pulseaudio (nontrivial) and hid all its utilities (srsly it launches this shit like five different places) and reconfigured Jack and, as I put on moo:<\/p>\n

You say, “realtime kernel active… pulseaudio confirmed nonstarting… JackAudio running…”
\nYou say, “outputs ACTIVATED”
\nYou say, “automation engaging… engaged!”
\nYou say, “running… FUCK.”
\nYou say, “wait I think I see it”
\nYou say, “fuck. restarting”
\nYou say, “godDAMMIT that was behaving SO much better.”
\nAnna aw
\nYou say, “it _is_ behaving better tho – enough to show me something…”
\nYou say, “I think I have a corrupt automation event… <deletes> <restarts>”
\nYou say, “…and outputs up… ”
\nYou say, “…dsp at 29% and stable…”
\nYou say, “about to start automation…”
\nYou say, “automation running…”
\nYou say, “so far so good…”
\nYou say, “Jack and ALSA reporting no errors yet…”
\nYou say, “approaching fail point… still running!”
\nYou say, “past crash point…”
\nYou say, “end of song!”
\nSolarbird collapses. “Automation shutdown orderly, transport stop normal, JACK and ALSA report all is well. It’s fixed. That was scary and unpleasant! But at least repairable.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An hour and a half actually working on stuff, three-odd hours of fixing the world, really, that’s about what I expect. I go back and forth on all this – I mean, in the middle of All That, if somebody had squawked “OPEN SOURCE IS THE FUTURE!” at me I’d have punched them right<\/em> in the face. But once it’s working again, well, at least I have tools.<\/p>\n

Even if they explode sometimes at random, like people on LOST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dude, you still have some Arzt on you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}