Re: [LAU] OS for realtime operation

Am 09.01.2012 18:53, schrieb Moshe Werner:
> Hi Hartmut,
>
> nice to know other openSuse users.
> Which version are you on? Probably 12.1?

11.3 actually, on a T60 Laptop.
Unfortunately many pro-audio packges are not that easy to find in the
Suse-Repos anymore. So many apps like guitarix and others are best build
from source.
The build-environment and devel-packages provided by the repos is
working quite sufficient whatsoever.

>
> Had no luck with jack2 and pulseaudio on Ubuntu (that is probably due too
> my disability to understand how to set it up correctly).

Same here first but the KXStudio-Overlay solved all this automagically ;-)

Falk TX is indeed top-notch. His packages and his own tools(Catia,
Cadence etc) work as it should be:

http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

best regards

HZN

>
> Best regards,
> Moshe
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Hartmut Noack<zettberlin@email-addr-hiddenwrote:
>
>> Am 09.01.2012 15:24, schrieb Moshe Werner:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> This made me somewhat puzzeled too until I tried the kernel desktop for
>> Suse to find out, that it delivers real good.
>>
>> I have virtually the same results on the same machine. The only difference
>> is, that the desktop-kernel is not the same as solid if Jack is set for
>> very low latency (such as: lower than 5ms). For the reall-world day to day
>> work with big Ardour-projects, I cannot find any difference regarding xruns.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> My system:
>>> Intel i7 950
>>> Gigabyte motherboard
>>> 6 Gb ram
>>> Rme HDSP 9652 audio interface
>>>
>>> Appreciate your answers.
>>>
>>> Moshe
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Ubuntu works OK for me here but is indeed not as solid and powerful as
>> Suses desktop-kernel. At the other hand I tend to use it anyway. There are
>> more xruns but not too many (about 2-3/h under serious load), it is quite
>> stable and forgiving(not a single case of jackd crashed or frozen) and the
>> best: it is the most comfortable distro I ever had. Listening to
>> youtube-videos or using any sound-source imaginable while Ardour is up and
>> running whithout even the need to think about how this happens is kind of
>> nice methinks ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>>>
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