From owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Sun Oct 2 14:56:13 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 543D7AEFB62 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2016 14:56:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm28-vm2.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm28-vm2.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.97.62]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9C624803 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2016 14:56:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1475420031; bh=L746JxvPQCeOhHhcs2hxVOi+Q+7S+TUYpUFXjVPfDmY=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=cSM2KxgLKqkBg/TdNf39+a3YKjfcnRG5ghmin8IFhRIzPEaaCOaNoBsL3uzJpeDdG2F5w1ggXreMeJlx3G+rfJVhmcn48RBrNRylcMqnLnODyKNVmh4jBZCofyABsTL9sMiirgF6nL079RqKZsGD4Od+Rd5jq/UWFGkDMVsl6CnCqFP4lPJhdcwjRTchgFZi6N/gk+KLCPIosVxTtcx6J+homwF/O4xGsTsFf+GuQepPEltXo1EiJ7FN+gmDA3v7S20CNhGXXSK5raOxnqQDlbyzq3qRP9XpYp+bXuMil1QeORPsIRDJwfCP3TDMJXu1ExWjCjRqrS6cf1rr6xb5Gw== Received: from [212.82.98.51] by nm28.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Oct 2016 14:53:51 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.66] by tm4.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Oct 2016 14:53:50 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp103.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Oct 2016 14:53:50 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 544937.73920.bm@smtp103.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: VFP4mNEVM1not59sg0nU.LKTHeUm.WwmVJ9i03.oPo7wzo1 fU_1AtR0g8_GSVT3XX_IEFS8krR2HYgRZCQ2Hnrqnbe5AAnqggqeMRa.Mw_B EEpKg2HNYCrj5mKxFAAO5j5VAJifAviwkne8MFgbKiIuOyhY31hfBjPtFn4A oTyQrm3sg28vw2FVgxXoT2b4HQFKQMfsViCPIxQLSreBxEYAtqkyUAIiNGiL 6T5ADTPyrobK364BxfLBnVxweEPUeQsSbyvQfX9WY.II3ZyGgBrcBMVcADy6 gFOyXP00E8JGlw7IMoT5ysQOM48PbAMI6ACnDV4zy1VIFbMlLnywzfOlXcQx cez.Tw5XkMad6UeUao4x13if9dt3Qy1j1UvMzt4WlolKW1OawI5EFs1MgqjV ScRbiAH4mGx4ammgmgXeJkdi7f0q6_mf4_IajQNa8SlGbSJI1jHZuDVyObmI NrfS8pBa7WAOrdnxswKrkcXAjQGcn3RBuC7SaV7eA93b3X.7e1TjOzxSeGtB McB_6jzdt0j6LOqIFP1NbvIw0M1NTj2z3GEwQoZX_AAMcwkGYgeQDdkc- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 16:53:48 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Midi and Music Composition on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20161002165348.0600b4d3@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0-2-ge48b739 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 14:56:13 -0000 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