I tested this with Audacity, an open-source audio application I’ve used for podcasting since 2006. Once you do, Linux apps will have access to any internal or external microphones. Then restart termina with this command: vmc start termina –enable-audio-capture. Next type the vmc stop termina command to shut down any currently running Termina VM. This should open up what’s known as the crosh shell. To enable audio capture through either your Chromebook’s built-in microphone or a USB mic, go in the Chrome browser and press the ctrl – alt – T keyboard combination. Instead, you have to start Termina, the virtual machine where your Linux containers run on a Chromebook, with a command line flag. Normally experimental new features are hidden behind a Chrome OS flag but audio capture hasn’t even reached that stage yet. You can actually use it now on the Chrome OS 79 Stable Channel that launched a few weeks ago. I’m talking about audio capture in a Linux container on Chromebooks. I don’t think they would add a version with telemetry when the time comes.At long last one of the major features I’ve missed from Linux on Chrome OS has arrived. A lot of them look like something made for techno, loops etc, which is just too narrow and useless and overdone if you play something non-programmed and the only thing you need to program is the metronome.Īs for the firewall thing, my version of Audacity comes from my distro’s app store and I’m sticking with that.

Also, for recording channel by channel, Audacity (or Adobe Audition) are really the simplest and easiest, if you’re a musician you’re not a programmer or a gamer and many DAWs are too complicated and convoluted for comfortable work.

Also there’s noise reduction, amplifying only certain parts, fade in/out, it’s just easier when you have the final product in front of you. Say you’re making an album, you decide what you want on tracks for one song, then simply apply the same presets to tracks from all songs. Reaper is good, using it too, but I do prefer “destructive” editing.

Audacity on chromebook