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Audio Recording in Ubuntu Studio - Part 2: Record a Hydrogen Drumbeat

Okay, so you’ve planned your recording project like I told you to do in Audio Recording in Ubuntu Studio - Part 1: Plan your Project. You now want to create a Hydrogen drumbeat as the backbone to your track.
To begin, start up JACK and then Hydrogen. You can begin messing around with beats and patterns [...]

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Audio Recording in Ubuntu Studio - Part 1: Plan your Project

Okay, so you’ve decided that you want to record a song from your home. You’ve also decided, like the rest of us cheapos, that you are going to use freeware. If you haven’t yet decided, I recommend you use Ubuntu Studio (for why see here). Ubuntu Studio is armed with these great programs: the [...]

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How to Capture Audio from Video

I have recently been trying to capture audio from some video clips that I have, and just didn’t know how to do it. I thus stumbled upon an awesome way using Ubuntu Studio’s default movie player, Totem Movie Player.
It is very simple, let me explain…

Open JACK and start it.
Open your video of choice using Totem.
Go [...]

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Beginners Guide to Ubuntu Recording

I am currently in the process of backing up and reinstalling Ubuntu Studio and thus don’t have anything fantastic to write about this week.
I did however come across a cool article by rgrwkmn, called Recording in Ubuntu Linux (aka Free and Open Source Digital Audio Workstation)
It covers the basics of several Ubuntu Studio programs such [...]

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Multiple outputs for Hydrogen

I only just discovered that you can have multiple outputs from Hydrogen instead of using a simple stereo output. This means that in Ardour, you can have a different track for each drum, i.e. separate tracks for the snare, and kick drum. You might be asking: ¨What on earth is the point of that?!¨ Well… [...]

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