[Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff

[Wayne ward]

Wicked thats what you want!
Are you running realtime aswell?
There shoud be a small RT sign i your qjackctl window..
It should just be realtime out of the box...

Wayne

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> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:27:12 +0100
> From: andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
> To: lancaster at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff
> 
> andy baxter wrote:
>> andy baxter wrote:
>>   
>>> 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.
>>>   
>>>     
>>
>> 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
> 
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