OS and DAW optimization Tag

Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 in Ubuntu 11.10: Installation Guide

This is a complete tutorial on how to get your Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 to work in Ubuntu 11.10. At the end of this tutorial, you should be able to record and play with this Firewire audio interface in Linux/Ubuntu 11.10. Before proceeding with the ste …

Install FFADO & JACK from Source using Subversion in Ubuntu 11.10

FFADO is the Linux Free Firewire audio drivers. This is required when you like to use a Firewire audio interface in Linux such as Saffire Pro 40. Jack is an audio sound server in Linux that would be useful for low latency recording. This tutorial was w …

How to Install Ubuntu 11.10 for Music Production with Windows XP/7

If you already installed Windows XP or Windows 7 in your computer and you would like to try Ubuntu music production such Ubuntu studio; then you would need to install Ubuntu operating system along with Windows. This can be very tricky and difficult esp …

Advantages of 64-bit DAW over 32-bit float Digital audio workstation

First, if you do not have any idea of what 64-bit float means, then you need some introduction. When you are recording/tracking digitally, you are converting analog audio to digital audio data which are processed and stored in your computer. Then if yo …

How to Prepare and Send Recorded Tracks for Audio Mixing

Let’s have this example. Have you ever thought; “How am I going to make my recordings compatible with any DAW for mixing”? Supposing you are proaducing a song; then you are recording the tracks. All tracking is now complete in your own DAW or tracking …