On Tuesday 24 May 2005 13:27, Nick Torenvliet wrote: > My hardware is a 2.26GHz PIV and an ASSUS MOBO, SBLIVEEMU101K, 512MB RAM the sblibe is enough for starting, I have one too. you should try to get a livedrive if you don't have one -> more io-ports directly accessible from the front. > Will using flux box instead of GNOME see me an improvement in my audio > performance. As Gnome is a similar cpu-hook as KDE (which I am using) I can tell you that it gets better with fluxbox, which is also my choice for audio-work. Additionally you should try to get one of the various realtime-patches running, I recommend realtime-lsm... > Lastly I am looking at getting either a digital mixer with say 8-16 ins > and a digital in card to interface with linux... or getting a faster > system and AD/DA/midi/digital in/out card. I wouldn't do that, mixing in ardour has the advantage that it saves the settings without problems inside your project. with an external mixer you have to store these settings externally. Even for monitoring and aux-ports there is a solution (not quite finished :-) ) : JackMix (*) > Again thanks all You're welcome. Arnold (*) http://roederberg.dyndns.org/~arnold/jackmix -- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. -- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20050524/26829902/attachment.bin
