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FreeBSD Home Audio Studio

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Another guest post by @NeoMoevius from Twitter.

Same as earlier with the Native Urban Terror on FreeBSD article.

This time it will be about setting up Home Audio Studio on a FreeBSD
13.1 system.

w701-ardour

The idea is to use software like:

  * Jack - audio/jack
  * Qtractor - audio/qtractor
  * Ardour - audio/ardour
  * MuSE Sequencer - audio/muse-sequencer

The first step is to setup Jack on FreeBSD - make sure to setup the
realtime mode - this is very important.

Add mac_priority to /etc/rc.conf file and load the mac_priority
kernel module.

# echo 'kld_list="${kld_list} mac_priority"' >> /etc/rc.conf

# kldload mac_priority

Then add yourself to realtime group.

# pw groupmod realtime -m yourself

# grep realtime /etc/group 
realtime:*:47:yourself

You will need to install audio/jack package.

% pkg which -o $( which jackd )
/usr/local/bin/jackd was installed by package audio/jack

The /etc/rc.conf part to run Jack is below.

# grep jack /etc/rc.conf
  jackd_enable="YES"
  jackd_user="username"
  jackd_rtprio="YES"
  jackd_args="-r -d oss -r44100 -p1024 -n2 -w16 -i4 -o8 -C /dev/dsp0 -P /dev/dsp0"

The Qtractor will also require audio/alsa-seq-server to work. The
good part is that it (the audio/alsa-seq-server package) comes with
rc(8) script to start it so you may enable it with service(8) or
sysrc(8) commands.

% /usr/local/etc/rc.d/alsa_seq_server rcvar
# alsa_seq_server
#
alsa_seq_server_enable="NO"
#   (default: "")

# service alsa_seq_server enable
alsa_seq_server enabled in /etc/rc.conf

# sysrc alsa_seq_server_enable=YES
alsa_seq_server_enable: YES -> YES

Now all of the above DAW software (or other music programs) should be
working properly.

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 5. [922b4]Bob Slacker March 2, 2023 at 3:57 pm

    >   jackd_args="-r -d oss -r44100 -p1024 -n2 -w16 -i4 -o8 -C /dev/dsp0 -P /dev/dsp0"

    How do I know what /dev/dspX to use?

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     1. [363fa]vermaden Post authorMarch 2, 2023 at 4:22 pm

        You can list your sound cards with cat /dev/sndstat command.

        % cat /dev/sndstat
        Installed devices:
        pcm0:  (play/rec) default
        No devices installed from userspace.


        Then /dev/dsp0* will be created for pcm0 and /dev/dsp1* for
        pcm1 etc.

        Regards.

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         1. [922b4]Bob Slacker March 2, 2023 at 4:25 pm

            Got it, thank you.

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