> I would love it if Trisquel would come preconfigured with very good > audio production settings/ software.
I don't think that it should by default, since this would mean things like a low-latency kernel, which most users do not need, and JACK instead of pulseaudio, which most users *really* do not need. I have thought about the idea of a separate Trisquel Studio flavor analogous to Ubuntu Studio. One problem is that Trisquel is based on Ubuntu's two-year release cycle plus a delay. Musicians generally want newer software than this. Ubuntu Studio is based on Ubuntu's short term releases, so it has a six-month release cycle, but Trisquel doesn't have short term releases based on Ubuntu's. It looks like Ubuntu Studio does have a backports PPA[1] from which we could bring in some newer packages, except that the PPA only supports LTS versions of Ubuntu for three years, so it's too late to do this for Trisquel 8, but might be an option for Trisquel 9. KXStudio has a similar PPA from which we might at least want to bring in Cadence, Catia, and some plugins. Then we could borrow Ubuntu Studio's default configuration (if they have JACK working out-of-the box even with laptop soundcards I'll be very impressed) and either build Abrowser with JACK support[2] or run it with apulse so that it does not require pulseaudio. Since it sounds like you're using Ubuntu Studio, can you tell me - Are you using the LTS version based on 18.04, or the newest version based on 18.10? - Did JACK work out of the box (especially if you tried it with a laptop's soundcard as opposed to an audio interface)? - Do they use a JACK-pulseaudio bridge, or do they avoid pulseaudio entirely? - It doesn't look like Ubuntu's repo or Ubuntu Studio's PPA include Cadence and Catia. Do they use qjackctl, or do they have another graphical tool for configuring and routing JACK? [1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783733
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