computer builder w/ Mint17.3, LMMS, Audigy.

[Logan005]

I am building a PC for a friend, his hobby includes recording his own music, mixing music and Midi. I have obtained an SB Audigy sound card and I have it working with Mint17.3 perfectly, however it does not work correctly under LMMS. Midi sounds good then suddenly it sounds like garbage. I have two of these Audigy, one with the external console and one with the expansion bay console, they both work with LMMS producing clean Midi audio output, then it falls apart almost like it's over volume or something. This is my first time installing LMMS so I hope it is something simple. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Jim...

[musikbear]

This is my first time installing LMMS so I hope it is something simple. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Jim...

First
Welcome to the forum!
I like to list all those links that could be of interest to new LMMS-users, so :
Heres the most important LMMS links:
LSP - dedicated site for sharing projects, presets, themes and more https://lmms.io/lsp/
LMMS homepage https://lmms.io/
The Forum - for discussion https://lmms.io/forum/
LMMS Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/makefreemusic
LMMS Soundcloud group https://soundcloud.com/groups/lmms
LMMS Wiki - documentation about the program https://lmms.io/documentation/
LMMS Google+ community http://goo.gl/CxzpNI
LMMS Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/LMMSOfficial

Yes it properly is simple. First you should try to set the sound-devise in LMMS to SDL.



If that works, you should be able to find a setup with ALSA that also work. For that one of our linux wise will chime in, im sure :)

[Gps]

Linux user chiming in.

If I am right, (can somebody confirm this?) there is no sdl on Linux. ( simple direct layer if I remember right)

On Linux you want to use either alsa or jack. I am totally lost though, on why it stops working.

The picture from musicbear though still applies. That is were you select alsa or jack or oss or pulse audio.
Pulse audio is not recommended though, because its an extra layer on top of alsa, which for music production is not a good idea.
Alsa is as far as I know used on all Linux distro's (I use openSUSE)
Jack is something you need to install through the repositories.

Jack is from what I hear the best, but its less simple to use then alsa.

I think you should ask this question on a mint forum too.
What you can try however is to start lmms from the command line.
(just type lmms and hit enter) Then DONT close the that window, and use lmms as you normally do. When the sound cuts out, look in that windows if there are any errors, which might help us, to find the problem.

[zonkmachine]

If I am right, (can somebody confirm this?) there is no sdl on Linux. ( simple direct layer if I remember right)

On Linux you want to use either alsa or jack. I am totally lost though, on why it stops working.

SDL is the new default under all OS's in the development version.

Jack is from what I hear the best, but its less simple to use then alsa.

Jack is what people use to recommend but I haven't dived into it. The problems people have seen has been related to Pulse audio which is running in the background on some distros like Ubuntu.

[Gps]

My lmms on openSUSE is set to ALSA (advanced Linux sound architecture)

I am on lmms 1.1.3 so that explains why I don't see sdl.

Jack: http://www.jackaudio.org (but if I get jack right its more about routing and connecting stuff)
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit

Do you have the same problem with lmms set to alsa? Or when you play an mp3 or something like that ?

It still might an idea to start lmms from the command line, and see if error occur when the sound gets distorted.