Qtractor manual

The Qtractor manual created by a Qtractor user is available here. My thoughts about Qtractor apply to the entire Ubuntu Studio experience. Other audio file types such as MP3 might require additional software. If you only have one sound card you may not need to do anything; the sound card may already be working.

However, if you think you only have one sound card you might be wrong! I have a video card with an HDMI port, which means that my video card qualifies as a sound device. Ubuntu Studio decided that I have two sound cards, and naturally the wrong one became the default sound device.

Unless told otherwise, programs tend to default to device 0. I then restarted my computer I probably could have just logged out and logged back in, which I believe is what I did when I was running the Live CD. I then found that the volume controls on my sound card were turned all the way down. I increased them using the terminal program alsamixer. I played an audio file using Totem also known as Movie Player to verify that sound was working.

It was! I downloaded Ubuntu Studio That experiment went so well that I installed Ubuntu Studio. Post navigation. The track was acceptable, so I turned off recording and monitoring for the Bass track. My first task was to get sound working in my new Ubuntu Studio installation.

That time might be now. Follow Following. Making Music with Ubuntu Studio. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. I clicked OK, and then clicked OK again to create the new directory. I entered twinkle1 as the File name and clicked Save. I clicked OK to close the Track window. I could have first used the Plugins tab to select an instrument but I chose to use an alternative method.

I selected Add Plugin…, which opened the Plugins window. I checked the Activate checkbox in the lower left corner. The list then displayed WhySynth. I selected program number 15, SpaceBass. I closed the WhySynth window. To re-open it, double-click the WhySynth plugin button in the plugin inset area of the Mixer.

I then enabled MIDI input. From the Track menu I selected Inputs, which displayed the Connections window. The window then displayed the selected output as connected to the selected input. I closed the Connections window. I clicked the Record button in the transport in the toolbar section. I then pressed the space bar to start recording alternatively, I could have clicked the Play button in the transport.

When done recording, I pressed space bar again. I pressed the Backspace key to rewind to the beginning but in this context I could have used either the Backward or Rewind transport buttons. I then played the track and was surprised that it kept playing past the end. I used a separate instance of WhySynth for each of the additional tracks, using program numbers 40 Bristol Mini 0 for Melody and 0 String Thingy for Strings. With three tracks created, I mixed the project.

Learning to render a project will be my next task. Feel free to try the alternative methods. The Qtractor manual created by a Qtractor user is available here. My thoughts about Qtractor apply to the entire Ubuntu Studio experience. I wanted to learn about automation in Qtractor and decided to create a fade out.

Moving Notes As expected, I found that notes can be moved by clicking and dragging up, down, left, or right. Note Duration I hovered the mouse pointer over the end of a note; the cursor changed to a double-headed arrow. Copy, Cut, and Paste One or more notes can be selected, copied or cut, and then pasted elsewhere. Snapping I found that note positions and durations are snapped to a specified time value unless snapping is disabled.

Resize Velocity I wanted to set the velocity to 64 for every note. I later discovered that velocity can also be set using the Normalize tool. Resize Duration I wanted to set all selected notes to have a fixed duration of a little less than a quarter note in Qtractor, a quarter note is normally ticks.

The track was acceptable, so I turned off recording and monitoring for the Bass track. Follow Following. Making Music with Ubuntu Studio. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Log in now. Loading Comments The menus and controls are along the top, a studio and room list is displayed to the upper left, a canvas preview on the lower left when a studio is loaded then the currently selected studio occupies the rest of Claudia's window.

Claudia may automatically create a new studio when you launch it, otherwise the main canvas will be blank save for some instructions to help you get started with creating a studio. You can call the studio anything you want but I'll just use 'qtractor' for the studio name. If you've not already got JACK running, then now is a good time to start it. When you do this, you will notice Claudia's transport controls become available and at least two items appear on the studio canvas - the JACK 'Hardware Capture' and 'Hardware Playback' ports.

When you have the ALSA audio bridge running you will see an extra two items JACK clients in Claudia's studio editing area- alsa2jack, which gets auto-connected to the Hardware Playback ports, and jack2alsa which gets auto-connected to the Hardware capture ports.