Hi Kim, Hi Renato, On 03/04/2011 08:09 PM, Renato wrote: > On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:53:05 -0800 > >> Trust me when I say that in a pro-audio environment Linux command >> line tweaking and chasing down xruns will not fly. Even laptop >> electronica producers and studio owners will shun the command line. >> Can you imagine having a client sitting in the studio watching as an >> engineer minimizes a sudden flock of xruns by dicking around on the >> command line? Dunno about you but if I were a client I'd run, not >> walk, out of that studio. I once had a client who even postponed his smoking break because he was fascinated to watch me create an EDL on the command-line (actually perl), after a pro-tools engineer announced that he needs a few days to re-align A/V footage or have the rushes re-synced by the film-lab. Enough anecdotes, I agree with you in general. RT-audio, DAW, etc /should/ work OOTB: Explaining to a newcomer how to get a simple pro-audio setup on GNU/Linux is embarrassing. OTOH Linux is really powerful for more complex setups where you _do_ want to know how the studio works and have the freedom to change and tweak things: whether it is a technician who flanges the tape using a screwdriver, some dude patching countless XLR cables or if it's a geek using a Terminal: same difference. no need to run out of the studio, but YMMV. > I'm missing something here - other than adding 2 lines > to /etc/security/limits.conf what other terminal black magic is needed > in order to run a fairly general (DAW + synths) linux audio environment? > cheers > renato yes, that's basically it. you might want to install a PREEMPT_RT kernel and configure rtirq (if you need reliable low-latency) and look for a workable solution for CPU and bus freq-scaling (most PPL just disable it). But all in all it's a one-time setup. Then there's quite a lot of details for the last 5% but those can't be generalized and usually is not worth following up upon. best, robin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
