flipping through distrowatch today and found this: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=jacklab
and my first reaction was "oh-noez! they found seablade". Its an enlightenment-centric music editing suite with a real-time low latency kernel. does it get any better than that in comparison to seablade's current config?
i guess the only downside is that its suse-based, has it been gentoo-based..... then it would have been sorta scary. :w00t:
TwilightVampire
01-26-2007, 10:04 PM
Heh heh, better watch out Seablade, they're in your head ;)
bigtrouble77
01-26-2007, 11:27 PM
I don't understand why some of these audio-centric distros don't have a 64bit release. Seems to me audio production will actually take full advantage of the extra memory and faster encoding 64bit allows for. At least Ubuntu Studio is considering a 64bit Feisty (mubuntu) release.
seablade
01-28-2007, 04:50 PM
I don't understand why some of these audio-centric distros don't have a 64bit release. Seems to me audio production will actually take full advantage of the extra memory and faster encoding 64bit allows for. At least Ubuntu Studio is considering a 64bit Feisty (mubuntu) release.
Heh yea I had been keeping an ear on it as a thing to pass time on the LAU/LAD lists. Thing is last I heard since they were based off Suse they were going with the default Suse desktop. But at any rate elive is also moving in that direction, the dev is off on vacation I believe till February but when he gets back I am planning on discussing his implementation of the realtime preemption based kernel, as he has already said it is a path he wishes to pursue, it just doesn't seem to be implemented correctly as of yet, but also as I said I need to discuss with him about it before I say that for certain.
Anyways on to the above comment, the one and only reason I rebuilt my computer into 32 bit instead of 64 bit had nothing to do with Linux Audio Software this time around. It had everything to do with precompiled VSTs that I run, and them not working well in 64 bit(Or at all). I tried maintaining a 32 bit chroot, but it got to much work at the end for this since most of my software had to be keptin that chroot, and I couldn't connect the 32 bit and 64 bit software in Jack. So unless I wasn't using Jack with it, it was 32 bit. So while I lose out on a few programs, I will have to live with it for the time being.
Now that being said, the performance difference for audio software 32 vs 64 bit is not much at all. Video and 3D rendering may be other topics(And strangely those were the 64 bit programs in my 64 bit desktop;) but I don't know enough to comment on those myself.
But yes you are correct BT. As long as I was not using VSTs I could run 64 bit flawlessly and was quite happy.
Seablade
seablade
01-28-2007, 05:19 PM
The installer is based on the acclaimed YaST2, which also serves as an easy-to-use administrative tool. To keep as many essential computer resources for music as possible, we have decided to use Enlightenment D17 desktop shell as the default window manager. KDE desktop environment is also included, so the user-friendly file manager - Konqueror, is available along with Kmail, Konversation, k3b and other KDE tools. For music creation and editing, we have included around 70 audio applications with sequencers, synthesizers and tools all installed and ready to go. User-friendly support for setting up and running VST instruments and effects is given. Additionally, there are applications for video production and a graphic suite that are included on the DVD. For browsing the internet, we have included Firefox 2.0 chosen for its stability, security and extendability.
They and I have stylistic differences in our desktops;) Though I woudl imagine they are based more around RoseGarden as their primary tool, while my primary tool is Ardour (KDELibs vs GTK). So it does make some sense for them to include KDE in there, I try to avoid it when I can.