[LAU] OS for realtime operation

Brett McCoy idragosani at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 13:38:48 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Moshe Werner <moshwe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the clarification and again please excuse my ignorance int the
> field of computer technology :).
>
> Just to get it right, some of you said that I don't need a real time kernel?
> How that? Are there people on this list who do serious audio work and do NOT
> use an rt-kernel? If so is it really recomended doing so?

I use the stock Ubuntu Studio 11.04 kernel, which supports real-time
scheduling, with Jack, Rosegarden, Ardour, etc., and it all works
fine, no realtime kernel required. I'm not recording live audio,
however, but mostly MIDI sequencing with samplers but with occasional
recording of live guitar and bass. Using RME HDSP Multiface II
hardware also, with ADAT and SPDIF.

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Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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