Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 [e-mail] wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:40:52PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote:
> > Where it all matters is in two cases that I can think of:
> > 
> > 	* The mixing desk.
> > 	* Performance.
> > 
> > A mixing desk has to be able to take multiple streams from
> > multiple sources, line them up and generate a glitch free
> > master. It has to be realtime because in the music biz this
> > is mostly done by ear (although there is also some queing
> > done as well, ie things like Cakewalk and other systems that
> > are already digital).
> 
> I don't see how Linux can ever do this  - without expensive peripheral
> devices.   

It can already do it with a fast system, HZ=1000 and ingos patch.