Re: [linux-audio-user] Submitted for your approval

Hi, --- Steve Harris <S.W.Harris(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: Yikes! I'm using large ide disks to mirror the scsi raid array. I've been thinking about switching our archive strategy from DD3 tape to rewritable DVD. DVD is probably alot more convienant for clients. The following is pretty far off the orginal topic. Reguardless, it's encouraging and exciting to know what we can expect from professional audio in linux. BTW, my interest in producing audio with a linux based environment is the Ardour mission statement where professional audio is a requirement. How effective an audio environment can we build on linux with jackd the high bandwidth, low latency audio server? Earlier tonight, I ran the following tasks symoultaneously: *Rsync mirror via LAN *Mastering of stereo file on Mac via 100mb LAN, atalk *'cp -R 2gig directory from channel A to channel B of scsi raid controler *Ardour; playback of eight audio channels *switching virtual desktops and applications windows, 'ctrl c + hold tab key infinitely' then 'alt + f1,4' like a mad man, and then checking yahoo mail repeatedly jackd started with 'jackd -R -v -d alsa -d hw:0 -p 512 -r 44100' During a twenty minute stretch with the above tasks being done at the same time, I generated one xrun. The "-p 512" is an exceptable latency for me because I use an external mixing consol and build the studio and control room mixes from the input stages. Anyway, my new point is that professional audio production in linux is a reality. ron __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com