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kimyo wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2024 6:23 am i have at least three 'not older' systems which will not run audio on w10 or w11 without crackles

This is a driver issue; saying "using Windows 10 is not feasible" is not the same as "these models do not have good audio drivers". If the audio drivers are bad, say so.

If you've run SDIO and the drivers are still unsatisfactory, say so.

obviously you aren't using windows to make music. if you were, you'd be on my side.

there is absolutely no point in running sdio. the problem is elsewhere (w10/11 optimized for gaming framerate instead of audio stability).

for reference:

kimyo wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2024 7:18 am there is absolutely no point in running sdio. the problem is elsewhere (w10/11 optimized for gaming framerate instead of audio stability

Saying "w10 is not feasible" on a 4-year-old laptop is not an accurate statement if the driver is the issue. Maybe you're having driver issues. I don't have first-hand experience with your machine, but that's entirely different from saying a 4-year-old machine is allegedly "older" and therefore unusable, or tantamount. Are you waiting for a better Windows driver? OK. Good to know.

There are several machines made much more than 4 years ago with drivers that provide perfectly fine audio. I'm not sure what more you want from an audio setup from a laptop with drivers that aren't to your liking.

I have to smile... I have a first generation Dell Inspiron Centrino core Duo laptop (only 32bit), the date of manufacture is worn off but it's at least 14 years old. I run Enlightenment on it and with 2Gb of RAM it boots up to about 200Mb of RAM at idle, almost the same as Fluxbox and significantly less than XFCE4... A 4 year old machine can run any Linux DE you want without blinking. If you have Enlightenment and XFCE4 side by side I'd be curious what the fresh boot RAM consumption is on your machine... For me XFCE4 used about 120Mb more RAM at idle..

Has the issue with Pianoteq been discovered and solved yet? I'm interested in buying Pianoteq, but not if it won't run properly on AV Linux Enlightenment
(which is running extremely stable on my system so far). I'd hate to install a program, and have it make my system run all janky. Thanks.

Hi,

I have no idea, but will be finding out in the next few weeks once I get it all installed and configured on a machine that will hopefully be built for us this coming week.

From my testing it is clear that at that time there were issues when using Enlightenment but not when using Xfce, as detailed in my first post. Addressing them would likely require assistance from someone on the Enlightenment side of things. Since the machine on which I originally tested no longer exists in that format I'll only go there once the above is in place, so that I can assist in the process.

Remember that:

1. The Pianoteq evaluation version is the full version with a time limit and some notes switched off, so you can download it and try it out.
2. You can run it as a plug-in. That might sort it out, though I doubt it. Still, give it a go.

8-)

Off topic, but important correction to misleading info about Reaper: in multiple posts, it's been suggested that the Linux version of Reaper is experimental. It hasn't been in experimental status in years, and moved to fully supported a long time ago. These days, Linux is a first class citizen among supported platforms there, and 100% officially supported. Reaper works extremely well in Linux, and is for example my own go-to there for very advanced audio/music needs, heh.