Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 1065

I disagree. Linux is useful for a subset of audio-video engineers that need a very open architecture for stringing a few custom pieces into their toolchain. If this were not true, the existing (admittedly rough) linux AV tools would not even exist.

As for audio latency, that is just plain wrong. It may have been true back in the 2.2 kernel, but the current 2.6 audio and video pipelines crank out just fine. It certainly performs better than Windows on similar hardware, and my experience with it has been at least comparable to similar tasks on my Mac.

Of course if your editing program is written poorly and buffers things overly long in user space, you will suffer from bad latency, but that is not the fault of Linux, just the crappy app. Personally, I've had a good experience with the Linux tools I've used.

Not bad advice... I still use Final Cut Pro on a Mac at the tail end of my toolchain quite a bit. Linux is the workhorse for doing a lot of the processor intensive transformations and filtering.

Not true, it can be done. It requires a bunch more work up front but does yield an environment that is very open to automation of repebreastive tastes and insertion of custom tools into the process. Not something everyone needs but a godsend for those of us who do need it.

Resyncing is a non-issue. Any delay in the pipeline is deterministic; the software adjusts for it when it merges the tracks together in the output file. The VSTI instrument delay could be an issue, but not one I have encountered; I have mainly been layering in vocal layers. When I do plunk around on my sampling keyboard, I tend to let it generate its own tones rather than depend on my workstation. Nevertheless, I see no technical reason this should be a problem. Linux can service hardware interrupts plenty fast for this sort of thing. If anyone has real experience with this issue, though, I would love to hear about it.

Sounds about like my network, a mix of Linux and Windows (now used mostly for games) and a single Mac.

Cheers,

Thad