u/CapnFlisto

I was looking at Ubuntu Studio the whole Snap situation made me absolutely hate Canonical again (I've been very out of the loop!)

I'm running on a cheapo mini pc, so I'd like something with low overhead. Since I'm mostly hardware-based, I won't be using too many heavy VST's, but I do want the lowest latency I can get. I do think I'd prefer something Debian based, just because I'm familiar with it.

My main wish, though, is to get something with a large user base (such as Mint), and just a little nicer out of the box than AV Linux. The AV Linux with Enlightenment was just crusty and a bit uggo all around. I tried customizing it but it was a losing battle, as a new annoyance would pop up every few clicks.

This post isn't intended to debate AV Linux's merits though, I only mention that to clarify what I'm looking for.

Thanks for any help!
(Edited for clarity)

Yes, we can absolutely just toss an ipod or phone into our mixers, but I'm curious about what other ways folks have found to incorporate reference tracks into their process.

I figure some of us here have DJ gear, and I was thinking that could be very useful for A/B'ing specific sections of tracks.

On the other end of things, anybody use any good metering or other visual analysis tools to help with these things?

I get really bad ear fatigue very quickly so A/B'ing has always been something very helpful, but I don't bother with it as much as I should.

Just got my mini and I love the little guy! I saw that you can disable the amp envelope (leaving only the filter envelope active) in the software. I'm hoping this means there's some kind of way to do it on the hardware as well? Maybe some kinda shift key type deal?

I really hope so because it'd be a nice thing to play with when doing sound design.

I’ve built up a decent hardware setup. My original goal was to have everything permanently connected and always accessible, and now that I've achieved that, I'm starting to realize that might have been a mistake. I’m realizing there is no "perfect" static setup. I actually end up ignoring gear I love simply because it's not sitting directly in my prime desk real estate. Reaching awkwardly over other machines to do real sound design is very annoying, and any one of my pieces of gear sometimes becomes the centerpiece of a jam.

I want to move away from having everything hooked up simultaneously. Instead, I think want a fluid system where I have very few things permanently "out" but can easily pull out 2-3 specific pieces of lesser-used gear without plunging into a nightmare of wire management and I/O routing. I've really been missing just having a couple things on my desk and making them work. It's inspiring and fun!

Has anyone else gone through this particular path? How do you handle physical gear organization and routing to make swapping devices frictionless? Any suggestions for workflows, desk layouts, or routing solutions that encourage mixing and matching subsets of gear? I'm also interested in convenient, good looking ways to store devices that aren't in use. I'm going to get a proper patch bay because that's clearly a big part of making this work. Power is another concern, but I think I've got that solved with a rackmount power strip.

Thanks for any input!

I had a demo of Nerf Arena Blast as a kid but could never find it in stores and wanted it desperately. A few days ago I decided to try to make it happen again (a certain video did spur me on a little bit, must admit!). Ironically, even after exhausting every resource I could find, I'm stuck with almost the exact same setup that I had in the demo.

Basically, I'm completely stuck on the first Pointblast event because the match refuses to end.

The match never triggers an end. I've scored over 50,000 points and even let the game run for a few hours. After a while, the AI bots start going crazy and become completely unhittable.

I Installed off an ISO to a custom directory (D:\games\). I'm running the executable as Administrator.

Has anyone run into this specific issue or know of a fan patch/setting I need to tweak to get the match scripts working?

I am hungry to fulfill my childhood foam dart fantasies. If this isn't quite the right community for this post, or you know of a better one, please feel free to point me there!