audio workstation software needed

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 13:38 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
> uriah heep said the following at 10/12/2010 12:39 PM :
> 
> > Linux.  The program I found before was Ardour which I can install on my
> > laptop to give him an idea of what open source has and then direct him to
> 
> Right... ardour is pretty much likely to be the backbone of any serious
> Linux audio workstation (and following that analagy, jack will be the
> nerves). On a sufficiently fast system working with a small number of
> tracks it works well even without a real-time kernel; but if one is trying
> to do real multi-channel professional-quality audio, then the planet/studio
> distributions are much preferred, since they install RT kernels.

I could never get my head wrapped around jack. But, I wasn't really
invested seriously into high-end audio. Ric


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