Sorry for the delay, I had an early night last night, because I had to walk to the quacks for an early appointment this morning. And then I walked into town to do some shopping, before going home. I've barely looked at my phone today, let alone my laptop!
I did what I could with it yesterday. But unsurprisingly, I epically borked my entire system!
It all seemed to be going so well at first. Everything was downloading OK. But when apt got to the part where dpkg started trying to install things, that's when the endless error messages about dependency conflicts started. It quickly degenerated into an unfixable mess! Ha ha!
In the end, rather than installing Debian minimal from scratch and re-installing all of my other stuff piecemeal, I just decided to be lazy and install the latest LTS release of Ubuntu Studio, because several of my bands are starting to demo new material, ahead of actual studio time. So all I'm interested in at the moment, is getting my home/mobile studio related bits up and running as quickly as possible, because I have lots of drum parts to record for all of the demos.
I'll come back to Debian once the band stuff has settled down and I have a bit more time to faff.
I'm still using X and KDE on UbuStu, so I'm going to build and install my usual customised dwm, so I can avoid too much heavyweight KDE stuff running on startup.
In hindsight, I think I should have upgraded to 12 and then 13. I've never actually tried skipping a release like that before. But updating from one release to another has always gone smoothly for me. This was the first time I tried upgrading and skipping a release in the middle.
Live and learn, I guess?!
Today, I'm testing all of my recording hardware to make sure it's all working properly with the audio software in UbuStu (Ardour, Hydrogen, pipewire, ALSA, JACK) etc.
Currently scouring my backup drive for a script I wrote to make all of the channels available on one of my Behringer external soundcards. For some reason, out of 8 inputs on it, Linux can only see the first two of them the other 6 are just not there. My other 8 channel Behringer has all 8 available by default (but it's a different module and uses a different driver). What I had to do the first time I had this problem was manually add the other 6 channels to a config file. After working out what changes needed to be made, I wrote a script to make the changes. But I have no idea where I've put it!
It's fine. I know it's somewhere in my backups!
Before I can record, I also need to build a flight-case, so I can install both soundcards and permanently connect them. That way, I can reduce the set-up/tear-down time a little. It will make the entire recording rig a lot more convenient and portable. But that's a problem for another day!
Wish me luck!
