Hi everyone,
I’m using my desktop mainly for audio production, but do some gaming sometimes. Is it possible than Dragonized Gaming has an impact on audio production performances (latency and xruns) or do you think I can safely go this way ?
Thanks !
Just check with the live ISO, remember, install on metal give better results than from USB.
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Thats up to what Software you want to use for audio productions?
Do you have a special Sound Card or how?
maybe you give more Details 
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Garuda runs like a champ, I don’t see why not 
Which program are you using??? Ardour, Repear perhaps???
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There is an unofficial repo for pro audio software if you haven’t hooked that up it’ll help get decent apps. I use my computer for both gaming and audio production and it all works fine. Esp since Garuda makes use of the zen kernel if you’re running AMD.
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Thanks everyone,
I’m running Mixbus, which is a native proprietary software based on Ardour (but I really enjoy its worflow and features more than Ardour’s). My sound card is a MOTU624 plugged on a USB3 port and using an ethernet port to access the settings in a browser (cool feature !).
TBH, I run through some XRuns sometimes when I decrease the latency enough for direct playing with plugins like amp sims. It’s not a dealbreaker as I usually rely on physical amps to make sounds, and it’s not a Garuda problem (it was worse with Ubuntu Studio) but it would cool to have other reliable options.
My procs and RAM are more than enough : Intel Core i7-10700 with 32Go DDR4.
But I was just wondering if the gaming version of Garuda was different enough to behave differently than the standard one, or if it was just some added packages to make gaming easier.
@mithrandir : thanks for the repo ! What do you mean about AMD ? I’m currently running an Intel proc, but have the Zen Kernel. Could you explain please ?
hey ElPhaco,
i would recommend to try on your real machine.(it work on my real machine with amd soundcard and creative soundblaster x-fi. Mixbus is running but i dont know about your soundcard.
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Yeah, I’ll give it a try soon, going to have some time in a few days and I have a secondary SSD for that.
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To my knowledge:
The gaming addition, for the most part, has extra gaming stuff preinstalled like clients and emulators. The aniancy optimizaitons exist in both the regular and gaming versions iirc.
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Yeah, I saw that when I’ve installed the gaming version on my test disk. I don’t need all this stuff, so I’ll finally install the classic dragonized and add only what I need.
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I still don’t know how to use Ardour very well outside of clipping and fading … xD The program I used on windows was called adobe audition
Use an rt kernel.
Realtime in this context means not that it is fast but that it has predictable timings, i.e. there are events that happen at very specific times. This for example can be utilized by Audio programs to refill/recalculate audio buffers just before you have a buffer underrun, reducing latency.
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@ElPhaco the Zen kernel has Ryzen specific code that takes advantage of AMD cpu’s no biggie though if your running intel.
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The linux-zen kernel is a performance optimized kernel and has nothing to do with AMD.
I think you are confusing linux-zen with the AMD znver kernel (for example linux-znver4).
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Have you tried Reaper? It’s not freeware, but it’s fantastic DAW imo.
Yes. I am mistaken.
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