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I would have loved to see an open-source of something like QNX for music production, as it would be very useful for its hard realtime guarantees and low latency
by pmoriarty 3y ago
I would have loved to see an open-source of something like QNX for music production, as it would be very useful for its hard realtime guarantees and low latency.
In my experience Linux has been pretty awful at this.
- zokier 3y ago> In my experience Linux has been pretty awful at this. isn't the problem these days just crappy random hardware more than anything else; Linux itself, especially with rt patches, together with jack should have good enough rt perf for audio use. I've seen reports of <5ms roundtrip audio latency on linux even with usb hardware.
- anthk 3y agoNow pipewire superseded both jack and pulse.
- zokier 3y agoThat is more of an aspirational goal for pipewires future than practical reality today.
- kramerger 3y agoI believe most people working with music on Linux switched to piprwire as soon as it became stable. Could be wrong, but I think it has been default on Ubuntu Studio and alike for at least a year now.
- rubicks 3y agoThe preemptrt patchset (now making its way into mainline) has excellent support for realtime scheduling. The problem is (as it has always been) undocumented NMIs in bog-standard COTS board firmwares. See the `hwlatdetect` man page for details.