Hendrik Boom wrote: > How many audio systems does Linux have now? > > Does any of them have really low latency -- the kind you need if you > are programming the synthesizer inside a live-performance musical > instrument?
A lot of people do use Linux for live performance. The soundcard DAC/ADC adds some latency. The vanilla kernel is fairly good WRT latency, and depending on your needs you can compile your own kernel (or find an optimized one) for slightly lower latency. Unlike proprietary frameworks, JACK lets different apps play together without fuss. If you're hooking together several components via JACK, each connection adds the latency associated with one buffer (actually it depends on the buffer size times the number of periods, which are command-line arguments to jackd). JACK itself doesn't add latency, and has an API for reporting latencies at different nodes of the audio network, so that it can be compensated. You do need a decent soundcard to be able to do live performance. The authoritative fora for working with these issues are the Linux Audio Users and Linux Audio Developers mailing lists. As the developer of a lightweight DAW with a text interface, I've followed these lists for several years and heard a lot of music produced using Linux. With the incredible flexibility and variety of apps currently available, I would go so far as to say it's a golden age for Linux audio :) cheers, Joel > -- hendrik > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
