On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 20:48 -0500, linuxmedia4(a)netscape.net wrote:
I decided to do all my audio work in the "Window
Maker" window manager.
It was a hint by Kai Vehmanen (creator of ecasound) in 2005. I'm not
savvy enough to comment on his more technical claims about it being a
good window manager for audio work, but I trust him on that part. But I
can confidently agree that it is a very easy to use window manager...
and I have it set up mostly for audio work.
I was slightly hesitant to mark this as "solved" because I haven't done
a lot of testing, but so far things are (much) better, and possibly
solved. I even recorded 15 continuous minutes of 2 simultaneous mono
24/48000 tracks in ecasound with only (possible) (barley audible)
clicks.
FYI, on any contemporary linux system with reasonable sensible hardware
and a minor amount of system configuration, you should be able to record
24+ tracks simultaneously without any issues at all, for hours. if you
can't, then you've got a problem with any or all of:
* the wrong kernel
* poor hardware
* lack of system configuration tuning
* wrong options given to software
* bad software
--p