Nice article from a pro Musician on switching from OSX, to ..

[Jay Vaughan]

> What happen about the latency ? Can you control more soft synth with  
> linux instead of OSX ?


a properly configured linux DAW kicks all other ass, latency-wise.   
latency is a reason to move to linux, of course with all the ease-of- 
use issues, blah blah.

actually, to get a good linux DAW, i think all you need to do is pick  
your hardware wisely, and then the distro's will do all the work, and  
things will be tight.  not too much heavy lifting, 'programming' wise,  
to be honest.  get a USB stick, and get used to booting Ubuntu Studio  
or Planet CCMA distributions on any computer you can find.

i bought one of these for my keychain and boot it whenever i get the  
chance:

http://code.goto10.org/projects/puredyne/wiki/GetPureDyne

i love the fact that it just plain works, and i didn't have to do  
anything more difficult than spend 7euro's on the thing and wait for  
it in the mail.  if you haven't at least tried to boot pure:dyne by  
now, you're missing out, romain: the point is, linux DAW's are *very  
much more easy* to run than a Windows or OSX DAW.  there are no  
bootable MacOSX USB fobs, and very few winXX ones, but Linux-on-the- 
keychain: a battle F/OSS has *won*.

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Jay Vaughan