[LAU] best hardware for pro audio recording?

[Svend-Erik Kjær Madsen]

Kevin Cosgrove skrev:
> On 25 July 2008 at 11:25, "b m" <otherbobby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I am going to build a new machine specifically for recording and producing
>> professional audio. I am somewhat new to Linux (and to building computers),
>> but I would like to dual boot XP and Ubuntu and gradually switch over to
>> Ubuntu for my recording projects.
>>     
>
> Before you settle on Ubuntu, _especially_ if music is your main 
> application for this machine, have a look at the various audio 
> optimized distributions.
>
> Try here:
>
> http://www.ubuntustudio.org/  --  much like your choice
>
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/  --  well supported
>
> http://www.mandriva.com/  --  my choice
>
> http://www.64studio.com/  --  64-bit option
>
> http://www.dynebolic.org/  --  I looked at it once
>
> http://demudi.agnula.org/
>
>
> Good luck....
>
>
> --
> Kevin
>
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Hi

I second that Ubuntu maybe not is a very good choice for serious audio 
production. I was badly hurt a little while ago claiming that I could 
get my windowsXP installation to run at 1.5ms with my RME Multiface 
while my newinstalled UbuntuStudio coun't :)

But after that I tried out SUSE 11.0 with Jacklab, I simply followed 
this guide: http://en.opensuse.org/JackLab/3_Steps_to_JAD_for_Beginners_2

I don't look back at any other distribution, because there is a lot of 
great system management tools to help you work on your distribution, and 
It works well both on my Laptop with pcmcia and on my desktop computer 
with PCI. And now my Multiface runs steaddy at 5.3 ms latency.

/Sv-e