[Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff

[Wayne ward]

Andy this is worth doing on 64studio to get nice fonts..
it works on mine..

http://artipc10.vub.ac.be/serendipity/archives/61-Getting-nice-anti-aliased-fonts-in-Debian.html

infact i just did it!!

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> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:32:31 +0100
> From: andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
> To: wayneward100 at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff
> 
> Yes it's running realtime. The only thing I'm worried about at the 
> moment is things like DVD playing - I saw something which said debian 
> doesn't support this. I'm sure I'll find a way round it though.
> 
> andy
> 
> P.S. I think your email program isn't working right - you messages keep 
> coming out with no line breaks, all run into one long sentence.
> 
> Wayne ward wrote:
>> 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 
>> ----------------------------------------> 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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