On 12/5/05, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > > Good Morning Everyone: > > > > I am preparing to install Gentoo for a very specialized application -- > > I have an older P3/400 box that I want to use to run AUDACITY to use it > > as a digital recording deck on our church sound system. I am planning > > to use fluxbox, and configure gentoo for a very lightweight application > > (fluxbox because I have been told it is about the lightest weight gui). > > You may wish to analyze different kernels for this matter. Get into the > audacity mailing lists, too. > > > I have NEVER done anything with Gentoo, my experience is in FC3/4 and > > Ubuntu. > > You will have no problems if you follow the alsa gentoo guide. > > > and tips that I ought to be aware of in trying this. I will also be > > compiling my own kernel for this -- (That will be a first too) > > I repeat: check out specialized kernels for low-latency in audio applications. > > What recording hardware are you going to use? what mixers? mics? I can help > off-list with that. I > own a recording studio and use audacity, too. I even written a Cooledit > Project import plugin for > Audacity :) >
Tim, You might also pick through the archives of this list, I seem to remember some discussion on low-latency kernels and audio recording specifically a while back. -Mike -- ________________________________ Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
