2009/4/17 Geoff King <gsking1@gmail.com>

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> Regarding RT and ardour, you can run jack and ardour without RT.
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Good point. Although I'm not using the -rt kernel anymore, my ubuntu jaunty (and
intrepid before it) system works very well for audio stuff.  I easily run ardour
and jack and others and they are very stable.  I found that I did not need the
super low latencies (<5ms) from a -rt kernel to do the recording and playback
that I was doing.

Last time I had a really good -rt kernel was around Gutsy.  I did a lot of
tweaking for that also, but it did work very well with the workstation.

Also FWIW I was never impressed with WindowsXP's latency - Stopped using that
about 2.5 years ago and never could get the latency down low enough for live
playing using a software synth. So one should not just assume that Windows will
give you the super low latencies of a -rt kernel.

The best low latency I've ever gotten from my current desktop was using the
64Studio distro a few years ago.  But I've never tried the Fedora, Suse,
Mandriva versions so can't comment on these.

Hope this helps someone.
Geoff