Hola, encontré esto en al lista de usuarios de Ardour, está en inglés pero es interesantísimo (para los que hacemos música), el tipo que escribe es muy inteligente. En síntesis, le responde a un usuario preocupado por afinar su sistema hasta el más mínimo detalle, y cuenta su propia experiencia con PCs con Windows o Mac corriendo el software para audio más profesional de la historia, llamado ProTools, y llega a la conclusión de que actualmente logra resultados mucho mejores con GNU+Linux y Ardour (el clon de ProTools) y le cuesta menos trabajo, y termina diciendo: "Mi consejo #1 es parar de preocuparse, construir y configurar el sistema, hacer algo de música y divertirse un rato. La tecnología trabajará mayormente por su cuenta y si no te estás divirtiendo, ¿cuál es el punto?" Mark Knecht <[email protected]> Hi again,    Let me see if I can guess where all your concern is coming from. I was a Pro Tools user on PC hardware for about 5 years. It was a mess. I went through the 001 and the 002 and used them for everything you could reasonably do with them. I had PC hardware performance problems almost every day of the week for 5 years. It was a mess. Optimize this. Reinstall that. "Disk drives cannot keep up." "System error XYZ." I've been there and done that. If any of this sounds familiar then please stop me...    On every Linux box I'm running today I can record a minimum of 16 tracks at the same time. For kicks I've gotten as far as 75 tracks in mixdown. I can run my RME cards at <3mS latency with no xruns for days. (Yes Lee, even my AMD64 machine since yesterday. Public credit to Lee Revell for kicking my a$$ until I got the message!)  ;-)    Optimizing Linux boxes is FAR easier and FAR more stable, day in and day out, than any Windows machine I ever used, but probably the MOST important thing is that when you run into a problem there are real solutions here. Folks in the audio community to start, or the Linux kernel developers when it's required. You are not dealing with some large faceless corporation. It's real people who actually care.    Now, that said, this is no license to do stupid things. I see no *major* problem with having /home and /audio on the same drive, as long as you're not planning on making huge use of the /home partition in the middle of a recording session. I do not think that you should place the busier system partitions, most expecially /var and possibly /sbin & /tmp, on the audio drive, but beyond that I'm not sure it makes a huge difference. Once Ardour is up and running I don't think there will be all that much reason to access these things so those partitions will likely just sit quiet most of that time.    As for file system types I use ext3 or very resently HFSPLUS. I've tried a few types - reiserfs, ext2 & ext3, FAT32 & HFSPLUS. I personally think that with the newest realtime kernels and good RME cards it's getting to the point where the system is so fast and tight that it's not a performance issue anymore. Choose the one you think is right for you. (Note - the largest latency I can actually measure on my AMD64 system is around 32uS - 1/100th of my audio latency. The newest kernels are really pretty cool once you learn how to run them. (Again, public thanks to Lee, Ingo, Fernando as always and countless others.)    I hope this info is of interest. My #1 recommendation is to stop worrying, build and configure a system, make some music and have some fun. The technology will likely work itself out over time and if you're not having fun what's the point?    Take care and good luck. Cheers, Mark _________ -- Marcos Guglielmetti Coordinador del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux (www.musix.org.ar) fecha: vie nov 4 17:30:02 CET 2005 ___________________________________________________________ 1GB gratis, Antivirus y Antispam Correo Yahoo!, el mejor correo web del mundo http://correo.yahoo.com.ar