Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
I think at this point all/most other important audio oriented distros or
add-ons have realtime kernels (64Studio, Ubuntu Studio, Gentoo's pro
audio overlay, Jacklab on SuSE, etc, etc).
I don't think Gentoo's Pro Audio overlay is anywhere near as well
integrated as 64Studio, JAD, or Planet CCRMA. I run Gentoo, and I just
recently discovered the Pro Audio overlay. I was trying to build CSound
from source on a Gentoo system and discovered on one of the CSound
forums that it was in that overlay. Most everything I've tested so far
works, but there isn't an integrated "Gentoo Audio Distro" that's
tested, etc., in the same sense as the others.
Now CSound *should* be in the main Gentoo tree. CLM and CMN should be
there too. CM is in there, as is SND. CHuCK and friends are in there
(but only on 32-bit because CHuCK is only 32-bit). I don't remember if
Stk is there -- I think so.
OSS has been deprecated. Some people bring it up in the lists every once
in a while, the discussion flares up for a while and then dies.
Indeed OSS is dead but OSS compatibility layers / emulators are very
much alive, I'm afraid.
To me it looks like something like PulseAudio will become the "standard
interface" for non-critical audio apps on the desktop, Jack will remain
the pro api and ALSA will just be what talks to the hardware.
Is it just me, or do other people think there are too many "audio APIs"?
Obviously, MIDI has severe limits, but really -- Jack, SDL, PortAudio,
PulseAudio, Network Audio System, Open Sound Control, OpenAL, LADDCA,
LADSPA, and probably half a dozen others.
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