One very big advantage on Linux is the possibility to run Pd with hassle-free jack
I'm ok with soundflower for that matter, although jack is more powerful than soundflower...
thanks
2013/5/30 Lorenzo Sutton lorenzofsutton@gmail.com
On 30/05/13 22:43, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
Hi there, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems Pd runs smoother in Linux than in any other OS, is that right?
Perhaps some of you have run benchmarks for it with the same machine and diferente Operational Systems. I was curious to try myself.
Can't comment extensively on that. I use Pd on Linux, used it on windows and once on OSX.
One very big advantage on Linux is the possibility to run Pd with hassle-free jack, in turn easy multichannel. Not only - jack means you can directly record into a DAW (e.g. Ardour), again with multiple 'virtual' channels if you want.
Now, is there a "best linux" for Pd? Maybe one that allows you to tweak in a little more to have insanely low latencies?
Yeah, the whole point and interest is to try and reach an absurdly optimized latency and CPU load.
Not sure about insane values, but I'm happy with debian now. Although I do very little live stuff these days. I think Pd-extended development is mostly done on debian, but I may be wrong on that.
Now that I got myself a Raspberry Pi (my first linux) I wanna enjoy the opportunity/motivation to broaden my linux usage to my regular laptops.
I use macs by the way. Don't know if that is an issue. Like being next to an impossible task to install a nice hardcore ("the best one") linux distribution in it.
I've seen that recently Linux has been able to work (poorly at least) with Thunderbolt. I have an RME Multiface that seems to works well on linux. Since newer macbooks lost the PCI slot, all that I'm missing is that my thunderbolt to PCI slot adapter works in Linux. That'd be cool, to run it on my macbook air, on linux... but I digress.
Can't comment on those.
Lorenzo.
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