Universal Studio

Project status: beta - feel free to test this project. "It works on my machine, let me know if it doesn't work on yours."

Universal Studio is an audio production environment for Linux, built to enable collaborative audio production across distributions and environments. Included in this is a broad selection of DAW's, plugins, and collaboration tools. Although this project was initially built to enable the Linux audio community to more easily tackle collaborative challenges like Server vs Server, it's also quite suitable as a place to start for anyone who is looking to use Linux for audio production.

Usage

This project contains a script called universal-studio that can be used to launch any program it provides. To get universal-studio, execute this:

curl -sSLO https://codeberg.org/PowerUser/universal-studio/releases/download/0.2.0/universal-studio
chmod +x universal-studio
./universal-studio ardour

After a moment, Ardour should launch. Replace ardour with another application listed in flake.nix to launch a different one instead. Please note that everything will need to be download the first time you use it, so the first run will take longer than usual.

Links

• Codeberg (Main repository)
• GitHub (Mirror)
• Support the project - Liberapay

Contributing

Feel free to do any of the things in the TODO section yourself and submit a pull request! If you want a package, first search for it on search.nixos.org. If you don't find it, please make a packaging request at the nix package repository. If you do find it, please open an issue to request the package or add it yourself and submit a pull request.

TODO

• Beautify readme
  • Banner
  • Badges
  • Blazingly fast
  • Other trendy things

FAQ

What does universal-studio do?

Universal Studio works in one of two ways, depending on whether you have the nix command already. If you have the nix command, it runs the project as a flake, using the system version of nix. If you don't have the nix command, it downloads a static nix binary from nix-portable and then runs the project in the same way it would if nix was already installed. The difference is nix-portable doesn't require privileges to use and isn't as invasive to get running (it only creates one directory). You can also force it to use nix-portable by setting FORCE_NIX_PORTABLE to true before running the script, or set it inside the script.

How do I completely remove this from my system?

How you remove this depends on whether you were using nix-portable or nix. Follow the instructions below for whether or not you have nix. If you don't know whether you are using nix, you probably aren't, but if running which nix in your terminal gives you an error, you aren't using nix.

I am not using nix

1. Remove the ~/.nix-portable directory (you may need to run chmod -R 777 on it first)
2. Remove the nix-portable binary and the universal-studio script from where you are storing them.
3. If you don't use nix at all, you'll also likely want to remove these files and directories:

• ~/.nix-defexpr
• ~/.nix-channels
• ~/.nix-profile

I am using nix

If you are using nix, you should look into the nix-collect-garbage command, which you can learn about in the nix manual. If you want to uninstall nix, the nix manual has information on how to do that in the uninstall section.

Credits

Huge credit to @tobiasBora on the NixOS forum for helping get this project started in nix. You can read our forum post here. This project would not have been possible without his support.

pacew/unfatarians-studio - This is the beginning of this project, as a docker image. Developing it as a docker image proved to have a number of unforeseen challenges, and in the process of researching alternatives, I discovered nix. Since it was such a big swing in how the project worked, I decided it would be best to put it in a new repository. Huge props to @pacew and @JohnTheBard for all their hard work on the project.