Chosen Robot and Mixbus

Just trying to finish up the mixing of Chosen Robot's new album using Harrison's Mixbus based on Ardour. Sounding pretty damn good. The built in channel strip eq, compression and the busses with tape saturation is really convenient. Plus they sound great. Almost time to get this shit mastered. :)

Installing ArdourXchange on OS X for Ardour / Harrison Mixbus

I will go through the steps to install ArdourXchange on OS X to be used with Ardour(http://ardour.org/) or Harrison Mixbus(http://mixbus.harrisonconsoles.com/).

First, we need to get Wine(http://www.winehq.org/) installed.  MacPorts is an easy and safe way to build and install Wine on OS X. Follow the instructions here(http://www.macports.org/install.php) to install MacPorts. Note, you will be required to install Apple's Developer Tools from your OS X DVD or download it from ADC(http://developer.apple.com/) if its not installed already. Once MacPorts is installed, open a terminal and enter the command below.

$ sudo port install wine

This will run for a bit, and usually starts the big fan on my MacBook while its building. You should see an output like below if all goes well.
---> Computing dependencies for wine
---> Fetching wine
---> Verifying checksum(s) for wine
---> Extracting wine
---> Applying patches to wine
---> Configuring wine
---> Building wine
---> Staging wine into destroot
---> Installing wine @1.0.1_3
---> Activating wine @1.0.1_3
---> Cleaning wine

To test try getting the version(yours may differ).

$ wine --version
wine-1.0.1

Now run the ArdourXchange setup.exe, note your path to the EXE may differ:

$ wine Downloads/setup.exe

Once the setup has finished, start up Mixbus and AAF files will show up in the open session dialog. Opening them will start the ArdourXchange(http://www.avtoolkit.co.uk/) conversion.

wicd, medibuntu, and ardour from source

Network manager has never worked well for me.  I have a Intel 3945ABG wireless card.  I always install Wicd because I like it. :)

 deb http://apt.wicd.net hardy extras

 sudo apt-get install wicd

This will automaticaly uninstall network-manager and add wicd to be started on login. 


I end up needing proprietary codecs and such, so next is to add the medibunu repository.

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/`lsb_release -cs`.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list && sudo apt-get -q update && sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get -q update

Next, I install dependcies for ardour.  Details at http://ardour.org/building.

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev scons gettext pkg-config libtool libjack-dev libxml2-dev libart-dev libsamplerate-dev libraptor-dev liblrdf-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgnomecanvas2-dev liblo-dev libboost-dev libfftw3-dev libaubio-dev 

Get a newer lv2core package from here: http://lv2plug.in/spec/ 

Follow the install instructions.

./waf configure

./waf

sudo ./waf install

Get the slv2 package from here: http://drobilla.net/software/slv2/ 

Get dependencies:

sudo apt-get install librdf-dev

./waf configure

./waf

sudo ./waf install 

 Get the latests srouce from Ardour.org or the repo:

sudo apt-get source ardour
cd ardour-2.8/
scons --help

Check the scons output for errors and that support for LV2 is good.
My output looks like:



brian@64studio:~/src/ardour-2.8$ scons --help
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
Checking for pkg-config version >= 0.8.0... yes
Checking for gthread-2.0... yes
Checking for lrdf... yes
Checking for libgnomecanvas-2.0... yes
Checking for gtk+-2.0... yes
Checking for jack... yes
Checking for samplerate... yes
Checking for glib-2.0... yes
Checking for libxml-2.0... yes
Checking for raptor... yes
Checking for fftw3f...yes
Checking for fftw3...yes
Checking for aubio...yes
Checking for C header file fftw3.h... yes
FREESOUND support is not enabled.  Build with 'scons FREESOUND=1' to enable.
Checking for slv2... yes
WIIMOTE not enabled. Build with 'scons WIIMOTE=1' to enable support.
Congratulations, you have a functioning C++ compiler.
system triple: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Checking for C header file fftw3.h... yes
Checking for usb_interrupt_write() in C library usb... no
Checking for C header file linux/input.h... yes
Checking for FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_init() in C++ library FLAC... no
Checking for C++ header file boost/shared_ptr.hpp... yes
Checking for lo_server_new() in C library lo... yes
Checking for dmalloc_shutdown() in C library dmallocth... no
Checking for C header file alsa/asoundlib.h... yes
Disabled building Tranzport code because libusb could not be found
Checking for internationalization support ...
Found xgettext
Found msgmerge
Checking for C header file libintl.h... yes
International version will be built.
Checking for C header file /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudio.framework/Versions/A/Headers/CoreAudio.h... no
Checking for C function posix_memalign()... yes
Checking for C function gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text()... yes


scons: warning: Ignoring missing SConscript 'manual/SConscript'

File "/home/brian/src/ardour-2.8/SConstruct", line 1427, in
Checking for C header file /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Headers/CoreServices.h... no
Checking for C function getmntent()... yes
Checking for C header file execinfo.h... yes
Checking for jack_client_open()...yes
Checking for jack_recompute_total_latencies()...yes
Checking for JackVideoFrameOffset in jack_position_bits_t enum...yes
Checking for jack_port_ensure_monitor_input()...yes
Checking for C header file wordexp.h... yes
Checking for C header file sys/vfs.h... yes
Checking for C header file /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreMIDI.framework/Headers/CoreMIDI.h... no
Checking for C header file /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/Headers/ExtendedAudioFile.h... no
Checking for C header file /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudio.framework/Headers/CoreAudio.h... no
Checking for C header file /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Headers/AudioUnit.h... no
Checking for jack_set_thread_creator()...yes
scons: done reading SConscript files.

ARCH: Set architecture-specific compilation flags by hand (all flags as 1 argument)
    default:
    actual:

WINDOWS_KEY: Set X Modifier (Mod1,Mod2,Mod3,Mod4,Mod5) for "Windows" key
    default: Mod4>
    actual: Mod4>

AUDIOUNITS: Compile with Apple's AudioUnit library. (experimental) (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

COREAUDIO: Compile with Apple's CoreAudio library (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

GTKOSX: Compile for use with GTK-OSX, not GTK-X11 (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

OLDFONTS: Old school font sizes (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

DEBUG: Set to build with debugging information and no optimizations (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

STL_DEBUG: Set to build with Standard Template Library Debugging (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

DESTDIR: Set the intermediate install "prefix" ( /path/to/DESTDIR )
    default: /
    actual: /

DIST_TARGET: Build target for cross compiling packagers (auto|i386|i686|x86_64|powerpc|tiger|panther|leopard|none)
    default: auto
    actual: i686

DMALLOC: Compile and link using the dmalloc library (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

EXTRA_WARN: Compile with -Wextra, -ansi, and -pedantic.  Might break compilation.  For pedants (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

FFT_ANALYSIS: Include FFT analysis window (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: True

FREESOUND: Include Freesound database lookup (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

FPU_OPTIMIZATION: Build runtime checked assembler code (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: True

LIBLO: Compile with support for liblo library (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: True

NLS: Set to turn on i18n support (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: True

PREFIX: Set the install "prefix" ( /path/to/PREFIX )
    default: /usr/local
    actual: /usr/local

SURFACES: Build support for control surfaces (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: True

WIIMOTE: Build the wiimote control surface (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

SYSLIBS: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK: CANCELS ALL SUPPORT FROM ARDOUR AUTHORS: Use existing system versions of various libraries instead of internal ones (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

UNIVERSAL: Compile as universal binary.  Requires that external libraries are already universal. (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

VERSIONED: Add revision information to ardour/gtk executable name inside the build directory (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

VST: Compile with support for VST (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

LV2: Compile with support for LV2 (if slv2 is available) (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: True

GPROFILE: Compile with support for gprofile (Developers only) (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

FREEDESKTOP: Install MIME type, icons and .desktop file as per the freedesktop.org spec (requires xdg-utils and shared-mime-info). "scons uninstall" removes associations in desktop database (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

TRANZPORT: Compile with support for Frontier Designs (if libusb is available) (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: 0

AUBIO: Use Paul Brossier's aubio library for feature detection (if available) (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: 1

AUSTATE: Build with support for AU settings & presets saving/loading (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

If you are interested in ardour-x-change(http://www.avtoolkit.co.uk/) which addes AAF/OMF support, you can pledge some money towards the feature in Ardour's Mantis:  http://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=2652 
The creator of AxC will send you the current version which runs in wine.  The donation is for a native version to be written.

Build away!

scons

If all goes well:

sudo scons install