Thanks everyone, Yes, Atom is not good, neither the slow 5400rpm HD it ships with, ram must be slow too, all attributing to the bad performance i'm getting with softsynths - just getting me through the hardware hump :)
MH - you are correct, I did not want to change my OS (i do not do this often..) and I do not believe the cause of the cpu failure was software related - I changed because in my location, I could no longer reach any repos for lucid and the system was puking - probably the first hint for the hardware failure. I believe it was going to die and it just so happended it died after my upgrade. Yes - USB Audio devices blow big chunks but, getting me through the hump! I normally use the audiophile 2496 pci card which has DSP and takes a big chunk of the processing away from the cpu. I could not DL any 9.0 version from sites...only 8.X, 10,X and up - that's ok though, no hardware :) In any case, I'd just like to say that since 8.X, i"ve been advocating this distro to as many other producers as I can. I've already managed to convert two people from a windows based system to ubuntu studio. Once you realize it's power, you can never, ever go back! Thanks again everyone. Dan. On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > 10.04 worked for me, as did 11.04. I just moved to 11.10 but have not > done any serious testing. I mainly use ardour/mixbus, zyn, bristol, > and various effects on tracks. > > One thing I will say, is that dual core or not, Atoms are pretty > crappy CPUs. In my mind they suck too much power to really justify > their lack of performance (the power problem has a lot to do with the > chipset that the Atom is paired with, but you are still stuck with an > under-performing part). > > For just recording the Atoms are fine, but as soon as you start > applying effects or using samples, they get bogged down pretty quick. > The SSDs that usually ship with netbooks are also terrible, you are > better off with a Western Digital Black or some other decently > performing disk (or a better SSD). > > Adding to the Atom nightmare is the 2 GB RAM limitation. This is just > not a platform that is built for success with media work flows. > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Mike Holstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:21 AM, daniel murray <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> I've had to switch to 11.04, install the lowlatency kernel (3.012) and > the > >> software I use manually. I use hyrdrogen, zynaddsubfx, seq24, muse, > jack, > >> jack-rack, ardour, audacity, auto-talent, vocoder and all the calf, > ladspa > >> and the tom plugins, jamin and the xfce interface. > >> > >> My studio PC recently blew up when i moved from Lucid (which could no > >> longer reach any repos!!!!) to 11.04. As I loaded one of my sessions > (not > >> realising the kernel went to generic) and thus overloaded the cpu to the > >> point that my PC crashed and would no longer post. When I looked at it > >> physically, the heat sick was bent,,,,nice:). It was just a simple inter > p4 > >> 2.9ghz, 512L2 cache with a gig of ram. On this, I could run hydrogen, > >> ardour, jack-rack and zynaddsubfx with at least 6 hudge sounds loaded in > zyn > >> and atleast 12 tracks of audio in ardour with fx and even porting to > jamin > >> or audacity for master mixes. > >> > >> Now, even with a dual core atom processor (believe it or not, actually > >> have to use a netbook to keep producing) along with an M-Audio > AudioPhile > >> USB audio/midi box, when I run Hydrogren with ZynAddSubFX and > Seq24-(since > >> muse took a poop), I can't load more than 2 sounds in zyn before jack > takes > >> a poop. So as a work around until these issues get solved, I have to > >> reccord small wave file patterns from zyn and import those as > instruments > >> within hydrgen so that they can be sequenced. Not ideal but atleast I > can > >> get my releases done. > >> > >> Also noted that the physical midi timing between outboard devices and > >> internal devices such as hydrogen do not line up and sometimes fall out > of > >> sync over time. > >> > >> I wish the 9.10 repos still existed - this release worked. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Daniel Murray. > > > > > > hey daniel... feel free to find me on the IRC as holstein in > #ubuntustudio, > > #ubuntustudio-devel or #opensourcemusicians.... i think you'll need to be > a > > bit more pro-active to diagnose just exactly what your issue/issues are. > the > > repos for 10.04 work fine for me. you can always get the DVD for 9.10, > > install, and just dont update. anyways, the scenarios you mention seem > like > > they could be hardware related... and also, even though you are switching > > machines, and operating systems quite a bit, there are a few constants. > you > > are a steady constant, you and your methods of connecting and configuring > > the hardware, and also the USB device is a constant (i assume) so i think > it > > would be beneficial to look at the systems and how they are using/seeing > > that USB device, and how you are configuring the systems. i have *never* > > heard of JACK or a kernel or anything like that breaking hardware > either... > > lets troubleshoot and get some concrete answers to list in a bug report > or > > somewhere else that will be beneficial to you. > >> > >> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Scott Lavender < > [email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Tim H <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> When is the stable release scheduled to be available? Xubuntu has > been > >>>> out for almost a week now. > >>>> > >>>> I'm planning on merging my 2 partitions into one mega release for > 11.10 > >>>> as it fixes many of the problems I've had on both studio and xubuntu > >>>> releases past. > >>>> > >>>> J/w > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Tim > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > >>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > >>> > >>> Hi Tim, > >>> > >>> I will be glad to provide the link to the release plus a caveat for the > >>> Ubuntu Studio 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot release. > >>> > >>> The link: > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/11.10/release/ > >>> > >>> The caveat:t unfortunately this is slightly unfinished as the team made > >>> slow progress initially and then basically fell apart during the cycle. > >>> There are updated applications but the transition to xfce remain > >>> incomplete. i do not believe there are any other significant issues > with > >>> 11.10 but would certainly like to hear if any are experienced. > >>> > >>> Lastly, I would like to mention that we have a plan for 12.04 and I > >>> firmly believe we will see a release of which to be proud. > >>> > >>> ScottL > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > MH > > mikeholstein.info > > > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users >
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