Naptastic

I use this guide in its current form on Debian Sid.

Start with the essentials.

• sudo apt-get -y install ncurses-dev build-essential automake cmake subversion git libogg-dev alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui rtirq-init

Recent (hah) changes:

• rtirq-init used to be listed here, but with BFS-patched kernels, I don't think it's necessary anymore

There's an Opus 1.1 now. I haven't tried it.

• wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/opus/opus-1.0.1.tar.gz
• tar -xvf opus-1.0.1.tar.gz
• cd opus-1.0.1
• ./configure --enable-custom-modes
• make
• sudo make install

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS CONFIGURE JACK WITH prefix=/usr

ONLY INSTALL ONE JACK AT A TIME

UPDATING WITHOUT REMOVING FIRST IS OK

NEVER EVER OVERWRITE JACKD1 WITH JACKD2 OR VICE-VERSA

• sudo apt-get -y install libasound2-dev libsamplerate0-dev libsndfile1-dev libreadline6-dev libncurses5-dev qt4-dev-tools libtool libdb-dev

I recommend checking out both jack1 and jack2, so if you decide you need to switch, it isn't a big deal. But always remember you have to uninstall one before you install the other.

• git clone git://github.com/jackaudio/jack2.git jackd2
• git clone git://github.com/jackaudio/jack1.git jackd1
• cd jack1
• git submodule init
• git submodule update

Decide whether you want jack1 or jack2. Refer first to http://trac.jackaudio.org/wiki/Q_differenc_jack1_jack2. It's also a good idea to read the rest of the JACK faq. Personally, I recommend Jack2 unless you plan to do audio work for more than 6 hours continually.

For jackd1:

• cd jackd1
• ./autogen.sh
• ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
• make
• sudo make install

For jackd2:

(By the way, these instructions assume you'll be using the ALSA backend driver. If you plan to use a firewire audio interface, you need to build ffado, which I really don't want to help with. But I still love you.)

• cd jackd2
• ./waf configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --alsa
• ./waf
• sudo ./waf install

In case it wasn't clear enough before, only follow one of the above sets of instructions. But now that we're all hunky-dory, we can get on with qjackctl.

Add these lines to /etc/security/limits.conf: (Note: I've heard that some systems are using /etc/systemd/user.conf instead. I've not encountered this yet.)

@audio - rtprio 99
@audio - nice -19
@audio - memlock unlimited

Then add yourself to the audio group:

• sudo adduser [username] audio

So on my system, I did sudo adduser david audio. Between the time you do this and the time you start using any of this software, you'll need to log completely out and back in.

There are LOTS and LOTS of LV2 plugins, usable as synths, processors, mixers, routers, and so on. I'm compiling instructions for as many of them as I can; many simply won't work right now, and many I can't get to yet because, for crap's sake, I have a day job! But here are all the main ones I use.

This is fun; automatic pitch correction. IMO, the latency is too high for live performance.

The tarball contains a directory that isn't the same name as the tarball, grr.

There's no configure stage.

make install doesn't, or at least didn't in my case. I had to copy the files by hand; no big deal though.

• wget http://talentledhack.googlecode.com/files/talentedhack1.85_source.tar.gz
• tar -xvf talentedhack1.85_source.tar.gz
• make
• cd ../
• sudo cp -a talentedhack.lv2 /usr/local/lib/lv2

• sudo apt-get -y install intltool librsvg2-dev libinstpatch-dev libglade2-dev
• git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/swami/code swami-code
• cd swami/swami
• ./autogen.sh
• ./configure
• make
• sudo make install

Fetch the packaged dependencies:

• sudo apt-get -y install uuid-dev liblrdf-dev libaubio-dev libarchive-dev libcppunit-dev liblrdf-dev libcwiid-dev libtag1-dev libtag-extras-dev vamp-plugin-sdk librubberband-dev libarchive-dev liblilv-dev libsratom-dev libsord-dev libserd-dev lv2-dev libsamplerate0-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libasound2-dev

Then check out and build Ardour:

• git clone git://git.ardour.org/ardour/ardour.git ardour
• cd ardour
• ./waf configure --optimize
• ./waf
• sudo ./waf install