Re: [microsound] linux and ardour was:puff 'n stuff

[Bill Jarboe <billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 4/3/04 12:50 AM, Alex Young at alex@xxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> I'm still constantly frustrated when using Linux for audio work.  Since
> 2.6 was
> released, there's now preemptive multitasking, and I thought things
> like Jack
> would work much faster.  But my machine often drops frames when I use
> Ardour (http://ardour.org/) and Ardour often crashes.  My machine is a
> 1.1ghz
> Duron with 512MB RAM, it performs worse with audio software than my
> 800mhz G3.

 Did you try running ardour on a mac? Has anyone?

 What about audio interfaces...do most of the major brands work on linux?

 The main thing I want to know is: if one is running Ardour on a pc (ibm for
instance) can one trade files with someone who's installed linux on a mac
without having to convert them to something else in order for something to
happen?
> 
> My point is, I think newbies could end up getting very frustrated unless
> they have an out of the box solution that will just let them get to
> work.  It may
> be best to find people on the list to try things like
> http://dynebolic.org/ (as
> John said) and produce a selection of tracks with details of how they
> achieved their results.  This may be a bit of a tall order, but when I
> started
> out hacking in Linux, HOWTOs were my best friend!

 Yes. The thing I've heard about linux is once it's on the harddrive it's
difficult to get off. I'd like to know what my chances of having something
usable are before taking that plunge.


   
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