personally, i dual booted for years (and spent a lot of time developing for gentoo linux), but once i started music production, i just found myself using windows more and more. so with my latest hardware upgrade a few months back i went 100% windows. (and i have an ubuntu vm for testing my modules.)
most of my music making in the last two years happens on vcv rack, but i still use quite a few vst plugins as well (kontakt is the big one, and a lot of free ones are win only), which i find just so much easier on windows. i hate fiddling with wine.
ok, (at first sight) painless on win, maybe the fans of the laptop are running too much, but I read that itâs been discussed many times aboutâŚtomorrow Iâll have a look
This isnât applicable to @ale47pâs laptop, but I recently learned one reason to use Windows instead of Linux (for the time being at least) is that if your PC has an AMD Zen CPU there are issues. I wish I knew that before I built my PC.
I know in the past it happened for others cpu/software combo as well (ryzen / Da Vinci Resolve), but the softwareâs developers fixed it. Are you telling me that there are some cpus that cannot run linux at all?
Zen CPUs will run Linux, but without a lot of modification (including disabling a security feature in some cases) there are serious stability issues. It seems it may depend on which motherboard you have. I havenât yet tried it for myself on my 2700X.
I took a look at the reasons of the fans running crazy, for now I found out that limiting the power of the cpu (by advanced energy settings on the win10 control panel) fits the best to me, Iâm at 27%.
Iâm running 44.1kHz both on engine AND the audio module, real-time priority and 4 threads (I have 4 cores and 8 threads). I have read that we should start having only 1 thread running and go up by one step every time we have audio glitches. Now I have the ES-9 controlling the Behringer Neutron via cv AND receiving audio from it, processing the audio and sending everything to the headphones, no gitches at all and fans are quite silent!
Itâs always a compromise, I think that bigger the patch, the more I have to look for the correct percentage for having GOOD audio and the fans running as low as possible.
GPU is something else to consider, unfortunately a laptop (as I understand) cannot disconnect the default GPU. Does somebody know if is it possible to set the whole win10 OS or EXPLORER (not the browser) to be used by the nVidia GPU?
I set nVidia card to be used by VCV Rack, and for MY live use, the laptop can stay CLOSED, and if you put everything in icon, the GPU use goes almost to zero.
My system is not a powerfull one at all (Lenovo 320, i5-8250U, 8Gb RAM, M-Audio Fast Track). I have dual boot with W10 and Ubuntu Studio 19.10. I installed VCV Rack to both sides, and I am happily using Ubuntu almost all the time.
I installed W10 and Ubuntu Studio on a SSD. Boot time is less than 30 seconds for both of the OS. All user folders, files, and all the junk rest on a classic Seagate HDD. I also defined the same user folders from both OS. For example, if I click on âMusicâ folder shortcut from file manager, it goes to the same music folder that I defined, no matter I am at Windows side or Ubuntu side. While trying something mostly unnecessary or stupid if something goes really bad with one of the OS, I just re-install it and all the user files are already there. Just redefining the user folders sitting on the classic HDD is fine. This takes approx. 30-40 minutes for Ubuntu and it is sometimes faster than trying to fix a broken OS. Of course other softwares are needed to be re-installed too.
PS. I also remember the times we write âwinâ on MS-DOS to run it.
I am still running only win10 on the laptop and using only vcv rack for music. my devices work as they should. I keep this laptop very âcleanâ, ok, I have acronis, I have backupâŚbut I think you can never get too safe with win
itâs been a while that I would like to go for a newer version of ubuntu on the tower pc (it is my battle pc, no worries at all if something happensâŚ)âŚwhat do you recommend to go for? my plan was to wait a month or so, and go for the ubuntu studio 20.04, from what I heard they release it next weekâŚright?
Iâve been using Ubuntu Studio 20.04 beta for a couple weeks, upgraded from 19. There arenât a lot of changes but, for me at least, Jack is much more stable now for both audio and midi. I spend a lot less time on getting things up and connected and a lot more on music.
Yes, Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio will be released on 23rd of April. You can install the current version and then upgrade to the new one, or just wait for the new release. Maybe it is just an old habit, but I donât feel comfortable of upgrading the OS even though there is nothing wrong with that. I just choose to install the new one onto the old one by deleting the old one during the installation. There is always such a choice with the installation procedure.
I choose Ubuntu Studio, because it comes with all the software I need such as Ardour, GIMP, Darktable, etc. Sure, it is possible to install just Ubuntu or some other Ubuntu flavor and then install the other software one by one. These are all personal choices. Either this way or that way youâll have what you want.
