On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 07:35, Chris Share wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to Linux, although I've been involved with music and computers > for many years, having worked professionally as a musician and sound > engineer, as well as having written some MIDI/audio apps for Mac and PC. > I'm currently starting PhD research in music technology at the Sonic > Arts Research Centre in Belfast. > > I thought that now would be as good a time as any to venture into the > world of Linux audio/MIDI, and have just installed SUSE 9.0. > > I'm interested in using Ardour for HD recording, as well as other > synthesis programs such as Csound, jMax and SuperCollider. > > My first question is related to setting up my system for low-latency? > > I've found Paul Winkler's "Low-Latency 2.4.x with ALSA HOWTO" and was > wondering whether this was the most up-to-date guide to creating a > low-latency system, especially with respect to SUSE 9.0. http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ > My second question concerns audio hardware. Here at the SARC I have > access to a Digi 002r audio/MIDI interface which uses Firewire. I can't > find any information about this interface and was wondering if it was > possible to use it with Linux. Possible... anything is. Likely/easy certainly not. M-audio for low-end cheaper, RME for high end spensive. > Cheers, > > Chris Share -ry
