Hi ! I didn't read the full topic. Just wanted to say this quickly :
Ubuntu studio is just a "realtime flavoured" Ubuntu, with good tweaks in
system files and up to date repos.
I personnaly use Trisquel for music production, as it is shipped by default
with a lowlatency kernel, wich allows me to have around 20ms of latency (or
less if I want) on an old core2duo, without much ram on it.
You can easily use Vanilla Trisquel for your everyday and professional music
production. You can also use a libre realtime kernel, quite easy to find
nowadays, if you want some "turbo power". PAM is correctly configured by
default.
Most of the software in trisquel's repos are quite outdated, but I can
recommend you some .deb packages I contributed to on LinuxMAO (french
speaking) http://linuxmao.org/Trisquel.
You can also select your libre software on Kxstudio web interface.
librazik.tuxfamiy.org maintains the biggest repo (as far as I know) of up to
date musical software, with a lot of packages you won't find anywhere else.
Feel free to ask help on linuxmao !
