Eduard,

If you're serious about setting up a music studio with Linux, you might do
better to use a regular distribution rather than a nomadic distribution
(CD-based). Dyne:bolic is tailored more for independent journalists than
music producers. There are a number of good music distributions, some of
them more complicated than others: Musix, Studio-to-go (non-free), Demudi,
and the new 64studio (which I use). The last two have a realtime-patched
kernel which is key for audio work.

That said, if you're sticking with dyne:bolic for this project, here's my
advice: More RAM would be great. 512mb is going to be handy if you're
recoding 12 tracks at once at that resolution. Even docked, I think
(correct me if I'm wrong) that some of your RAM is being sucked up by a
ramdisk with Dyne. Also, even with a realtime kernel, my jack buffer is set
to 4 to completely avoid xruns, so try that. If your interface supports
hardware monitoring, that's always the best solution, as it's zero-latency
by design. Unless you're using soft-synths too, you won't notice the
difference. The biggest difference is going to be setting jack to it's
optimal settings.

Good luck,
Clem


On 10/9/06, Andy Frisko <darthvim@???> wrote:
>
> (sorry first one was sent wrong ...)
> hi,
>
> Today I tried out dynebolic 2.2 on my PC. I have an
> amd athlon 2600+
> 512MB RAM
> SATA 120 GB seagate harddisk
>
> Jack:
> 48 KHz
> 128 Frames
> Buffer 2
> Realtime
>
>
> Sound Card:
> RME HDSP 9652
> with 1.3 MS minimum latency
>
> In Windows with ASIO I had no problems but with dynebolic 2.2 Jack and
> Ardour I get Xruns.
> I recorded 12 tracks at the same time for half an hour and I got 254
> Xruns. This seems to be not a good rate for recording audio.
> On ubuntustudio.com was written that you should only have Xruns on
> programm start up.
> My nest is about 350 MB and dynebolic and my audio directory is on the
> same partition. Can you help me to eliminate Xruns, please?
>
> Thanks
> In advance
> Eduard
>
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