[Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff

[andy baxter]

andy baxter wrote:
> andy baxter wrote:
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>> Can anyone recommend a good distro for doing simple music recording / 
>> editing / etc? I use ubuntu for everything else, but I've just spent a 
>> fair bit of money on a new external firewire sound card with 2 inputs 
>> and outputs, and then found various annoying bugs in the programs I'm 
>> using (jackd, ardour, and zynaddsubfx so far), which is making me think 
>> that the ubuntu people don't really have audio work as their main 
>> priority when keeping packages up to date. I could use 'planet CCRMA' 
>> (http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/), but this is fedora 
>> based I would rather use something debian based.
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> I'm just trying out 64studio ( 64studio.com ). It seems to be very 
> closely based on debian (it uses all debian repositories unless you want 
> bleeding edge stuff which they have their own repository for). 
P.S. I just realised what I said here isn't quite right. They do have 
their own stable repositories for multimedia apps, but keep them 
compatible enough with debian etch (stable) that you can put that in 
/etc/apt/sources.list as well.

Still really impressed with this distro - been playing about recording a 
guitar and drum track using ardour, and so far I haven't had a single 
xrun. (xruns are what happens when a bit of audio data gets lost because 
the software can't keep up with the hardware).

andy