[LAU] OS for realtime operation

[david]

Musix 3.0 beta.

On 01/09/2012 05:56 AM, harryhaaren at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Moshe,
>
> Yup recent convert to Arch here, its a very nice way of keeping on top
> of your linux distro: All options are available to you, config files are
> *very* well laid out, and documentation is extremely good. For
> configuration its really flexible, but it does require a certain amount
> of config before its running optimally in my experience.
> That said, configuring it is very easy and rewarding, it just does what
> you tell it to do, without trying to be smarter than you and changing
> stuff for you.
>
> AVLinux is a more "polished" solution and you'll no doubt need less
> effort to get it running, but then you've lost some control over how it
> works, and you'll have to pray its good.
>
> TangoStudio is Ubuntu based, and I had a pretty good experience there...
> not very RT performance, but stable @ 20ms or so. Here on Arch I'm
> pushing to 5ms, and getting pretty good results :)
> I'm a happy Arch user, but its definatly not the distro for everyone...
> as some Arch people put it: Arch doesn't find you, Archers find Arch
> -Harry
>
> On , Moshe Werner <moshwe at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hi Raffaele,
>  >
>  > thanks for the reply!
>  >
>  >
>  > My needs would be:
>  > Mainly tracking (by now up to 8 channels at given time).
>  > Mixing and monitoring - Yep
>  >
>  > Realtime fx - also yes.
>  >
>  >
>  > Tried AVlinux and found it to be pretty cool, but its 32 bit and till
> now I'm used to 64 bit and wouldlike to keep using the more advanced PC
> technology. (Finally when Protools 11 takes the leap into 64bit
> technology it would be sad to see my Linux system going backwards).
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Heard good things about Arch in audio use too. Anyone got experience
> with Arch use for pro audio?
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Raffaele Morelli
> raffaele.morelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > 2012/1/9 Moshe Werner moshwe at gmail.com>
>  >
>  >
>  > Hi everyone,
>  >
>  > after many years of studio work using the openSuse distro with the
> kernel-rt from Jan Engelhard it seems that he no longer continues his
> great work on rt kernels.
>  > Being more on the recording engineer side of things and not a Linux
> expert (user yes, expert no) I really fret at the thought of patching
> and compiling my own kernel package.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > I would like to hear your opinions on what distro is solid for audio
> work and has a reliable rt kernel.
>  > Also I would appreciate if you could explain the degree of difficulty
> and learning curve of the specific distro.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > debian lover since 2005 here :-) rock solid
>  > I won't try to explain debian learning curve because of too many
> if/then sentences to work with :-)
>  >
>  > A lot of work has been done since 2005 and actually AFAIK the
> features offered by the rt patch are being merged in the kernel mainline
> little by little and actually I can say that a debian stock kernel is
> really near the rt one... depending on your needs (record? mixing? both?
> + monitoring? + realtime fx? and how many tracks?...).
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > BTW, there are several multimedia distros around and they do not
> require you to do tricky things on your system and some are debian based
> (eg. AV linux).
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > P.S. I tried to use Ubuntu on the same machine I use openSuse 11.2 on
> and got pretty bad results regarding latency and x runs on jack 2.
>  >
>  >
>  > Don't know about openSuse but Ubuntu is debian with lipstick and
> makeup... too much IMHO :-)
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > regards
>  > -r

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