14 Oct
2014
14 Oct
'14
8:53 a.m.
On Tue, October 14, 2014 8:50 am, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
Hi all,
To refine the question a bit;
Older laptops in this case... 1.6ghz - 2.2ghz dual core 64bit processors
and their rough equivalents, running say, current KDE4 Ubuntu like
environment, vs flux/blackbox <add ur choice here>, etc. anyone got any
real results?
Like, I want to record at 128/2 ... Can I run a softsynth or Jammin on top
of a few live plugins running simultaneously kind of difference or ... The
point I'm subtly pointing toward... Does the lightweight WM or DT really
give me anymore power to do something useful??
The only user difference in experience, for the most part that I see, is
losing the automated bells n kazoo's tht heavy desktops handle. Of course
there's more but I'm just curious about case examples with something to
back them up & not be centered wholly on opinion.
I did some tests with a few desktops a few years back which I posted on
this list. I found that there was no hit to audio latency between the
different environments with my test rig. Assuming you have the physical
resources then my conclusion was that it comes down to personal choice.
I run gnome3 and find the workflow is fine. I have tried other
environments but I end up pulling them out and installing gnome3 for
consistency.
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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd