[Chris Ahlstrom]

After takin' a swig o' grog, philicorda belched out
this bit o' wisdom:

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:23:47 -0400, Charlie Olsen wrote:

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:08:11 GMT, philicorda wrote:

Energy-xt has a native Linux version too. It's nearer a DAW than a
tracker, but that is a good thing IMHO.

I've used Energy under Windows and it's a fairly decent piece of
software for the money. The drum track is a unique feature that allows
setting up grooves quickly for ad-hoc composing. I've never tried Linux
but from what I understand it's quite difficult to get it running with
low latency.

Low latency can be tricky on generic distros, so many people use music
specific ones. Partly this is for security reasons, a user must have
permission for very high scheduling priorities/ real time. I think that
must seem very strange from a Windows user's point of view!

The site http://www.indamixx.com/ indicates they configure a low-latency
kernel.


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I used to recommend 2K/XP for audio. Since Vista and the general
unpredictability of USB/Firewire interfaces, I tell people to use Macs.

I'm quite happy with an XP+Cubase rig for most of my recording at the
moment. In a few years time when that dies, I'll be on Linux or OSX.

I have no idea what those programs are or do. I would like to see Linux
version's of Nuendo and Reaper.

Perhaps Nuendo, as it runs on OSX/Win and so appears to have been written
with cross platform compatibility in mind. Reaper is unlikely, as it is
devoutly WIN32 and thus would be a huge job to port.

Both ports would use Jack, like all existing commercial audio software on
Linux. The basic framework for audio on Linux of ALSA+Jack is really
rather splendid compared to the somewhat ad hoc equivalents on other
operating systems.

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