AV Linux/Ardour Success!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:12 pm
Hi people,
Just writing to enthuse about my good experiences tracking vocals this weekend, entirely in Linux for the first time. I was using stock AV Linux 5.0.3 on a $400 laptop I bought in 2007, with an E-Mu 0404 usb soundcard. My processor never went over 11%, and my latency, if Ardour is to be trusted, was a jaw-dropping 2.7 ms (I can hardly believe that was true, but I certainly didn't detect any latency by ear). Granted, vocal tracking is super easy (no vsti's, no midi, no effects, etc), but I still couldn't believe how easy, fast, and clean JACK and Ardour were. Emailed my stems out at 12:30 last night and woke to an email from the producers about how great everything sounded. Done and done. Microsoft, Apple, Steinberg, Ableton, eat your hearts out.
Just writing to enthuse about my good experiences tracking vocals this weekend, entirely in Linux for the first time. I was using stock AV Linux 5.0.3 on a $400 laptop I bought in 2007, with an E-Mu 0404 usb soundcard. My processor never went over 11%, and my latency, if Ardour is to be trusted, was a jaw-dropping 2.7 ms (I can hardly believe that was true, but I certainly didn't detect any latency by ear). Granted, vocal tracking is super easy (no vsti's, no midi, no effects, etc), but I still couldn't believe how easy, fast, and clean JACK and Ardour were. Emailed my stems out at 12:30 last night and woke to an email from the producers about how great everything sounded. Done and done. Microsoft, Apple, Steinberg, Ableton, eat your hearts out.
