Hi Raffaele,
thanks for the reply!
My needs would be:
Mainly tracking (by now up to 8 channels at given time).
Mixing and monitoring - Yep
Realtime fx - also yes.
Tried AVlinux and found it to be pretty cool, but its 32 bit and till now I'm used to 64 bit and wouldlike to keep using the more advanced PC technology. (Finally when Protools 11 takes the leap into 64bit technology it would be sad to see my Linux system going backwards).
Heard good things about Arch in audio use too. Anyone got experience with Arch use for pro audio?
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.morelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
2012/1/9 Moshe Werner <moshwe@xxxxxxxxx>
Hi everyone,
after many years of studio work using the openSuse distro with the kernel-rt from Jan Engelhard it seems that he no longer continues his great work on rt kernels.
Being more on the recording engineer side of things and not a Linux expert (user yes, expert no) I really fret at the thought of patching and compiling my own kernel package.
I would like to hear your opinions on what distro is solid for audio work and has a reliable rt kernel.Also I would appreciate if you could explain the degree of difficulty and learning curve of the specific distro.
debian lover since 2005 here :-) rock solid
I won't try to explain debian learning curve because of too many if/then sentences to work with :-)
A lot of work has been done since 2005 and actually AFAIK the features offered by the rt patch are being merged in the kernel mainline little by little and actually I can say that a debian stock kernel is really near the rt one... depending on your needs (record? mixing? both? + monitoring? + realtime fx? and how many tracks?...).
BTW, there are several multimedia distros around and they do not require you to do tricky things on your system and some are debian based (eg. AV linux).
P.S. I tried to use Ubuntu on the same machine I use openSuse 11.2 on and got pretty bad results regarding latency and x runs on jack 2.
Don't know about openSuse but Ubuntu is debian with lipstick and makeup... too much IMHO :-)
regards
-r
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