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Old 04-23-2013, 02:06 AM   #5
royleith
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Default Reaper in Ubuntu

Installing Reaper in Wine in a standard Linux distribution is not a good idea, although it does seem to work pretty well. Use one of the 'Studio' distributions in order to get the 'RT' kernel for lower latency, automatic setup of the priorities and permissions for best performance and a good jack configuration.

To use jack and the low latency kernel you have to have ASIO for Wine or else you will not see the audio and midi ports in Reaper. LinReaper sets a Reaper-only Wine environment into which ASIO for Wine is installed. That avoids any conflicts with your other Wine installations.

jack is reporting 5.8ms latency with a stock Acer Revo sound chip for me using Ubuntu Studio and Reaper seems to work very well. There are some things which are slow like the dragging of the cursor because the Atom processor is no ball of fire. However, it is amazingly good and you soon forget the lowly hardware.

Roy Leith
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