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I remember Ubuntu studio being geared towards musicians. Does Elk have its own proprietary components? I noticed that the raspberry pie image is noted as open s

I remember Ubuntu studio being geared towards musicians. Does Elk have its own proprietary components? I noticed that the raspberry pie image is noted as open source but not the OS in general. https://ubuntustudio.org/tour/audio/ https://ubuntustudio.org/tour/audio/

michaelpb 5y ago
Looks like it uses a "Yocto" script - https://github.com/elk-audio/elkpi-sdk https://github.com/elk-audio/elkpi-sdk - https://www.yoctoproject.org/ https://www.yoctoproject.org/ I thought of Ubuntu Studio as well, but it looks like Elk is intended to be more lower-level / for appliances. I'm not totally sure though, but I'm guessing it doesn't come with the full suite of Ardour etc. I do wish there was something like Ubuntu Studio, except focused on audio-only (and more polished / supported). Mostly just because JACK + low-latency kernels are an ordeal to set-up and maintain on a normal desktop, so it's much easier to just install a pre-configured distro on a studio computer and be ready to jam whenever inspiration strikes. Unfortunately KXStudio as a separate distro isn't around any more. I still use a KXStudio 14.04 install on an old (airgapped) DAW computer.
- Namidairo 5y ago
  > Mostly just because JACK + low-latency kernels are an ordeal to set-up and maintain on a normal desktop I wouldn't call linux-rt from the AUR too hard to install, but I can see how it would be a pain for someone who just wanted to pick up their software and do their thing without a long setup. (Since there would probably be more things to setup aside from just the realtime kernel)
  - michaelpb 5y ago
    Yeah, JACK / ALSA / PulseAudio is probably the harder thing to straighten out, and if you are using the computer in normal usage as well switching back and forth is a perpetual head-ache filled with edge cases and incompatibilities. A turn-key audio-only OS like what KXStudio 14.04 was truly perfect for pro audio, since it had Ardour + 100s of plug-ins and tools all pre-installed and configured.

michaelpb 5y ago

Looks like it uses a "Yocto" script - https://github.com/elk-audio/elkpi-sdk https://github.com/elk-audio/elkpi-sdk - https://www.yoctoproject.org/ https://www.yoctoproject.org/ I thought of Ubuntu Studio as well, but it looks like Elk is intended to be more lower-level / for appliances. I'm not totally sure though, but I'm guessing it doesn't come with the full suite of Ardour etc. I do wish there was something like Ubuntu Studio, except focused on audio-only (and more polished / supported). Mostly just because JACK + low-latency kernels are an ordeal to set-up and maintain on a normal desktop, so it's much easier to just install a pre-configured distro on a studio computer and be ready to jam whenever inspiration strikes. Unfortunately KXStudio as a separate distro isn't around any more. I still use a KXStudio 14.04 install on an old (airgapped) DAW computer.

Namidairo 5y ago
> Mostly just because JACK + low-latency kernels are an ordeal to set-up and maintain on a normal desktop I wouldn't call linux-rt from the AUR too hard to install, but I can see how it would be a pain for someone who just wanted to pick up their software and do their thing without a long setup. (Since there would probably be more things to setup aside from just the realtime kernel)
- michaelpb 5y ago
  Yeah, JACK / ALSA / PulseAudio is probably the harder thing to straighten out, and if you are using the computer in normal usage as well switching back and forth is a perpetual head-ache filled with edge cases and incompatibilities. A turn-key audio-only OS like what KXStudio 14.04 was truly perfect for pro audio, since it had Ardour + 100s of plug-ins and tools all pre-installed and configured.