[LAU] Bela.io Was: Arch Wiki Professional_audio

[Fede]

Do you mean you could run a regular jack app on bela?

About the low latency audio on regular linux, I know it's possible.
I've been able to run my onboard soundcard at 16/2 48000 with no xruns
on my old laptop (core2duo 2GHz). It starts to drop frames as soon as
you do anything non-trivial, though.

When I need live monitoring, I set up the card at 128 frames. That is
low enough I can play guitar or keys normally.

About the RT kernel, yes, it makes a world of a difference on my old
computers at the lowest latencies.

I also have a stock kernel configured for low power consumption on my
netbook, and at 1024 frames I could build a quite big patch on
automatonism yesterday, and play for hours without xruns.

BTW check out automatonism, it's a great modular synth for puredata:
https://www.automatonism.com/the-software/

On 3/31/17, Felipe Ferreri Tonello <eu at felipetonello.com> wrote:
> Hi Fede,
>
> On 30/03/17 22:30, Fede wrote:
>> I think the bela.io comes with a puredata compiler. It's not regular
>> linux.
>
> They use regular Linux for everything but audio processing. The audio
> processing is done in the minimalist environment that runs on the
> Xenomai RTOS.
>
> But I can confirm that there are people doing low-latency audio - 5 ms
> system wide - on Linux. With the right care and love you can get there. ;)
>
> In order to achieve this level of latency with no drops of frame, I
> strongly recommend using RT-Linux with a configured environment.
>
> --
> Felipe
>