Hi all,
I installed debian testing a while ago on my sons pc for the purpose of music production; recording, mixxing, post production etc. A couple of times large updates have left wine broken leaving his pluggins unusable in reaper. So, with my recent experience with OM I thought it time to try something else. That said i have some questions about other users experieces for similar use cases.
rt kernel
I havent checked the repositories yet but i assume it is possible to install an rt kernel, although i didn’t find documentation on the wiki or info in the forum after a quick search. (i will look more thoroughly after installing)
Does anyone here use an rt kernel and have you had any specific issues?
Rock or rome
I am going to install rock this afternoon and start setting up his system but apart from newer packages would there be any advantage of upgading to rome. Would upgrding using the repository selector work for this or would it be better to reinstall?
What are your exeriences with OM for music production in general and more specificaly; reaper, scarlette interfaces, vst pluggins using wine, pulse audio or pipwire.
I havent posted hardware spec because untill now i’ve not had any problems, but can do if it is of interest to anyone.
I havent done anything intensive with audio in a long time. But it was my understanding that with Kernel 6.12 RT was no longer needed. Supposedly built in or something. I heard rumblings in the UbuntuStudio rooms that it they would no longer be using an RT kernel and just using the standard ubuntu kernel as it was working fine.
I been playing with Reaper on OMLx to mix and master my AI generated music, podcasts and vidoes. Haven ran into any issues with the stock kernel.
Tbh, I think pipewire has solved a lot of latency issues with audio.
As of September 2024 PREEMPT_RT was finally been merged into the kernel with version 6.12 being the first version with it. This probably means the Kernel has to built with it enabled, but it’s no longer a patch.
Thanks for the replies. I think im going to try on rome after the suggestion about the 6.12 kernel. I installed the rock znver iso as have a 2019 ryzen processor. I will try the upgrade option first as i didn’t see a rome znver iso on sourceforge. So far it been much easier on the newer hardware compared to my old ideapad. If i get everything running smooth, in theory would it be possible to not do any updates, wait for rock 6.0 and then downgrade the repos to rock. I know its not recommended but if 6.0 has the 6.12 kernel i would probably reinstall anyway, this might save me having to reinstall and setup everything?