Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 16:53:48 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Midi and Music Composition on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20161002165348.0600b4d3@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <CALM2mEk8UV_0fQOO8Pm3tsRX91x1bCDisFT6sx=_uhTWkhqu8Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALM2mEk8UV_0fQOO8Pm3tsRX91x1bCDisFT6sx=_uhTWkhqu8Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I can't help you with your request. If nobody else should be able to help you, the following might help you, to decide using another operating system. Back in 2012 I installed FreeBSD, because I experienced issues with a RME HDSPe AIO sound card running Linux. On FreeBSD I got audio working with too much latency for real-time usage. IIRC I didn't tested MIDI, however, it's possible to experience an amount of MIDI jitter, that renders MIDI unusable for making music, since MIDI jitter already is an issue for real-time capable PCs. BSD and Linux are niches and audio for making music is a niche inside the niche, or words to that effect said by one of the more prominently Linux audio developers about Linux. Consider to dual-boot/multi-boot FreeBSD and Linux and to use Linux for MIDI applications, using the Linux kernel with boot option 'threadirqs' or using linux-rt, a patched kernel. Both require some additional settings, some could be done automatically by using the script rtirq. Arch Linux provides binary packages and a FreeBSD ports-like build system. https://www.archlinux.org/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System http://archaudio.org/ https://aur.archlinux.org/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/ As a FreeBSD user you unlikely want https://ubuntustudio.org/ an official Ubuntu flavour, OTOH it might be the most easiest to use Linux distro for testing purpose, but OTOH the allegedly user-friendly approach comes with many pitfalls. Regards, Ralf
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