The future of realtime Linux in doubt

Posted Jul 10, 2014 10:06 UTC (Thu) by nye (subscriber, #51576)
In reply to: The future of realtime Linux in doubt by daniel
Parent article: The future of realtime Linux in doubt

>"Hard realtime is probably overkill for audio production."
>You could say that studio monitors are overkill for sound reproduction but some might disagree. If you are OK with the occasional pop, buzz or stutter in your Mahler then hard realtime might indeed be overkill for you.

Bearing in mind that Linux has never been capable of hard realtime, and that vast amounts of audio production is done using general-purpose operating systems like Linux, Windows, or OS X, I think it is an *objective fact*, however much it outrages your delicate sensibilities.

(Low-latency, of course, is going to be a requirement for the majority of audio work, but that typically comes at the expense of hard realtime.)

The future of realtime Linux in doubt

Posted Jul 10, 2014 20:14 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> Bearing in mind that Linux has never been capable of hard realtime, and that vast amounts of audio production is done using general-purpose operating systems like Linux, Windows, or OS X, I think it is an *objective fact*, however much it outrages your delicate sensibilities.

If a general purpose operating system makes the audio deadlines 99.9% of the time, then it should indeed be good enough for audio production. It's just the matter of letting your antivirus or disk indexer decide when you do your tea breaks.