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How to Install Qtractor on POP OS

To Install Qtractor on POP OS

qTractor is an open-source audio and MIDI sequencer, built based on C++ and uses the Qt framework, along with ALSA drivers for MIDI files and JACK drivers for audios. qTractor is also an audio editing tool and features a multi-track tape recorder, multi-select, point-and-click, and drag & drop interaction, undo and redo functionality.

Installing Qtractor

Before you start with the installation of qTractor on your Debian machine, make sure you add the needed repo for which you need to access the sources.list file. Run the following command to open the file. 

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu artful InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful InRelease              
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security InRelease [78.6 kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates InRelease [78.6 kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-backports InRelease [72.2 kB]
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [73.2 kB]
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons [49.2 kB]
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/universe i386 Packages [73.1 kB]
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/universe amd64 Packages [73.7 kB]
Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [49.5 kB]
Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [55.4 kB]
Fetched 603 kB in 9s (65.5 kB/s)                                              
Reading package lists... Done

Once it is done, you shall proceed with the installation of Qtractor by making use of the following command. 

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install qtractor
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  qtractor
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 80 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,560 kB of archives.
After this operation, 6,174 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package qtractor.
(Reading database ... 193777 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../qtractor_0.8.3-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking qtractor (0.8.3-1) ...
Setting up qtractor (0.8.3-1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.8-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-1) &hellip

Once Qtractor is installed, go to activities and type qtractor in the search field, and click the icon that appears to launch the Qtractor application.

You can see that the Qtractor application is now open.

With this, the installation of Qtractor on POP OS comes to an end.

Tag : Pop OS qTractor
FAQ
Q
Is my Hardware / Soundcard supported in the Linux OS ?
A
For PCI, PCIE, PCMCIA and USB devices, the Alsa Soundcard Matrix lists support status.

Another source of information regarding to USB support
Q
How to optimize my system for audio / midi ?
A
For some uses, it can be helpful to run a realtime (RT) kernel, but generally this isn't necessary anymore.
Q
How to get a list of available timers?
A
Run the following command,

# cat /proc/asound/timers
Q
What repositories you have used?
A
here I have to give some of the repo as you can need "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free".
Q
Is it possible to run VST plugins on Linux?
A
Jost, LMMS, Muse Sequencer,Qtractor, Radium and much more.