Thanks Simon. I'll investigate!!<br>Mo<br><br><b><i>Simon Fielding <simonw_f@yahoo.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> If you are going to install to a spare drive, you<br>might want to try FC5 and then the low latency kernel<br>and apps from Planet CCRMA<br>(http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/). <br>I've been playing with this a bit recently and it all<br>seems to hang together quite well although you do need<br>to decide what it is you want to do before you start<br>installing software as there is a lot of it.<br><br>Simon<br><br>--- Mo Awkati <mawkati@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:<br><br>> Hi Ad<br>> <br>> thanks for the explanation and pointers, I'll check<br>> them out.<br>> <br>> I am going to try and use my spare removable hard<br>> drive to install Ubuntu and see how it works with<br>> the hardware I have.<br>> <br>> Cheers<br>>
<br>> Mo<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Cheers<br>> <br>> Mo<br>> <br>> Adam Sweet <drinky76@yahoo.com> wrote: -<br>> Hmm... It gets murky in these waters. I don't think<br>> that your kernel will be the cause of the problems<br>> with the soft synth. I don't know what that problem<br>> could be. Kernel issues related to sound are down to<br>> the fact that most kernels have an audio latency<br>> problems. This means that you record something and<br>> it<br>> plays back a few milliseconds out of synch with what<br>> you recorded along to. Another problem is what are<br>> called xruns and there are 2 types:<br>> <br>> 1) A buffer underrun happens during playback, when<br>> your sound card tries to read data from the buffer,<br>> but your software has not yet filled it.<br>> 2) A buffer overruns happens during recording, when<br>> your sound card tries to write data to buffer, but<br>> your
software has not yet emptied it.<br>> <br>> Neither of which are good news, they lead to gaps in<br>> your audio.<br>> <br>> The remedy for this is to build a kernel that<br>> contains<br>> real-time pre-emption patches, which is non-trivial<br>> if<br>> you've never done it before. However as I said, this<br>> isn't likely to be your problem at this stage. I've<br>> only just started dipping my toes into the water<br>> with<br>> Linux audio recording and I don't know a great deal<br>> yet.<br>> <br>> However, a very good website is<br>> http://ubuntustudio.com/wiki despite being Ubuntu<br>> specific, should help guide you in the right way and<br>> looks like it explains sound fonts.<br>> <br>> I can't help explain why some of your apps don't<br>> work<br>> I'm afraid. Myabe launch them on the comand line and<br>> see what kind of output they produce when you do<br>> what<br>> won't work for
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