On 03/05/2011 02:57 AM, Robin Gareus wrote: > 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. I should not have said the last 8 words; file-systems, mount-options, disabling services, irq balancing etc etc do matter [sometimes :)]. > best, > robin > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
