| 26 Jan 2024 |
 symys | Any recommendations for mastering plugins? I'm not very experienced with these in general. | 20:28:25 |
 Rampoina | In reply to @fractivore:cyberia.club
I hadn't heard of this before. So it's like an old school music language and framework? Sounds like it could be fun to livecode in! yes | 21:21:12 |
| Rampoina | there's also supercollider | 21:21:16 |
| Rampoina | for a more modern language | 21:21:22 |
| Rampoina | but csound is more batteries included | 21:21:28 |
| 27 Jan 2024 |
|  Jack changed their display name from Jack to Jackoe. | 01:58:55 |
| symys | In reply to @rampoina:matrix.org
there's also supercollider ahhh right, supercollider is used in sonic-pi's backend somehow | 08:20:25 |
| symys | I just realized - nix shells might be a good way of doing temporary audio configuration changes, like a sample rate change! | 08:21:22 |
| symys | In reply to @Minijackson:matrix.org
Calf in general has a lot of good plugins: https://calf-studio-gear.org/ Hmm, how did you make Ardour find the calf plugins? It was able to find a lot of these plugins in the default search paths after I installed them via my configuration.nix, but not the calf plugins, even though calfjackhost is installed. | 08:47:04 |
 Minijackson | In reply to @fractivore:cyberia.club
Hmm, how did you make Ardour find the calf plugins? It was able to find a lot of these plugins in the default search paths after I installed them via my configuration.nix, but not the calf plugins, even though calfjackhost is installed. you have to have this kind of config: https://github.com/musnix/musnix/blob/master/modules/base.nix#L77-L82 | 10:03:23 |
| Minijackson | make sure your $LV2_PATH var is correct and points to where your plugins are installed | 10:03:46 |
| Minijackson | and you should check that Ardour respects the $LV2_PATH value | 10:04:11 |
| Minijackson | (note: IIIRC the $VST3_PATH variable is not standard) | 10:04:39 |
| Minijackson | * (note: IIRC the $VST3_PATH variable is not standard) | 10:04:43 |
| Minijackson | In reply to @Minijackson:matrix.org
and you should check that Ardour respects the $LV2_PATH value if it doesn't, you should be able to override it in the settings | 10:05:35 |
| Minijackson | You can also check "Preferences > Plugins > Scan for plugins" to see if there's any plugins that Ardour failed to load | 10:06:49 |
| symys | In reply to @Minijackson:matrix.org
you have to have this kind of config: https://github.com/musnix/musnix/blob/master/modules/base.nix#L77-L82 Oh right, I forgot about that part! Thanks again! | 14:45:25 |
| symys | Is it a bad idea to make my musical collaborators use NixOS for working on projects together? 🤔 I've had issues in the past when me and a collaborator try to work on the same ardour project file - the problem is we don't have all the same plugins, which need to be manually installed to the same version. | 16:36:33 |
| symys | NIX IS basically completely solves this problem... But it's not something I would generally suggest to anyone that's not like already a super-technical open source nerd | 16:37:12 |
| symys | * NixOS basically completely solves this problem... But it's not something I would generally suggest to anyone that's not like already a super-technical open source nerd. But I feel like just using my config isn't too much to ask. But they'll probably have to use it through WSL.... | 16:37:55 |
| symys | Dunno if this is a good idea or a highly efficient frustration generator for my band | 16:38:31 |
|  @tacocatgirl:catgirl.cloud joined the room. | 21:44:12 |
| 28 Jan 2024 |
| symys | I think my bandmates can handle it, they're tech-savvy. I think we'll try it and it should become clear whether NixOS is actually helping in this situation or becoming more of a hindrance due to the technical overhead. | 02:26:31 |
| Rampoina | go for it, Nix band! | 05:27:39 |
| Rampoina | there was this DAW that was trying to solve this problem | 05:28:12 |
| Rampoina | I forgot the name | 05:28:22 |
| symys | So I decided to use musnix as a flake (to avoid the state associated with channels or cloning), and doing so had the effect of downgrading my ardour version from 8 to 7 🤔 | 06:39:37 |
| symys | I guess that must mean that the flake input chain pins that version somewhere? | 06:41:03 |
| symys | oof Ardour got broken in other ways too... Seems to have had JACK support removed completely. I'm gonna delete this flake and try the install via clone. | 07:16:47 |
| symys | Probably I'm misusing the flake since this was my first attempt at using them. | 07:17:28 |
