[linux-audio-user] live music with linux

Hi all, Thought I'd report on my first live gig experience with linux (or anything else for that matter) at the placard headphone festival: http://state51.org/placard/ For those that don't know, the festival consists of lots of performers doing 20 minute sets back to back - all listenable to on headphones only. I was running jack and my apps as root using SHED_FIFO on my Thinkpad r31 running slackware 9.0 and the audioslack ll kernel and alsa packages: http://www.audioslack.com/ I'd set up jack on a huge buffer (4096) as latency wasn't important for me, I had no live input and just wanted 100% glitch free playback. Also enabled softmode to stop the server ejecting apps if anything went too wrong. Before the gig I went through my cron jobs commenting them all out just in case. slocate is particually annoying - I guess most people disable this anyway - even with jack using such a large buffer, all the disk access caused problems. I wanted to keep the setting up as quick and simple as possible, so I'd written a shell script to launch jack with the right settings, launch my apps, load samples and connect them all together with aconnect automatically. The applications I was using are new software I have yet to release, a midi sequencer/sample playback engine that uses a lot of generative and alife based processes, and a very small polyphonic multitimbral synth based on the code from SpiralSynthModular. I'm trying to get the synth into a releasable state very soon. There is audio here of the 20 minute set: http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_aud… cheers, dave