High-end audio -- Gnome or KDE?

geeyoff · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 21

Hi. I've tried both Gnome and KDE and have no particular preference for either. Which of the two would be better suited for doing some high-end audio recording, processing, mixing, etc? Stuff like multitrack recording and whatnot? (Please don't say "neither.")

I don't mind having both GTK and QT apps running side by side, but I'd like to concentrate on one or the other.

Thanks.

Deepak420 · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 4:54 am Post subject:

Neither. Really

(as long as you don't use a sound daemon). Use ALSA and emerge audacity and you should be good to go with any window manager.

gimpel · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 7:21 am Post subject:

well, right. neither

if it comes to high-end multitrack recording ---> http://www.nongnu.org/protux/ is the way to go

and that with pure ALSA or jack, which provides low latencies. also make sure you have a preemptible kernel and some realtime foo stuff.

KDE and GNOME even more are pretty ressources hungry, so maybe chose a light WM like window maker or enlightenment dr16, so you have more to give for the audio apps themselves.
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