RT kernel recommendation for audio production?

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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I’ve finally finished my setup, the new 5.8 kernel works great with nvidia-dkms & virtualbox-dkms …
but I still need a second (RT or lowlatency) kernel for audio production, any linux-rt recommendation which work w/ my dkms stuff?

should I use the dvzrv kernel?

[dvzrv]
Server = https://pkgbuild.com/~dvzrv/repo/$arch

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RT Kernel is not that necessary in most cases this days, at least with my experience (unless you heavily use midi perhaps).

But there’s only one way to find out :slight_smile:
Maybe with your hardware / audio interface you’ll benefit with RT, most likely not.

Much more important steps for pro audio are:

  1. Route all audio through JACK

  2. https://github.com/raboof/realtimeconfigquickscan

    Run as:

    perl ./realTimeConfigQuickScan.pl

    Use this script and all of it’s recommendations (except maybe CPU Governors & RT Kernel)

Also if you need help with running Windows VSTs or giving ideas on compatibility - PM me, i’ll give you some ideas / advises, because i’m making huge project on personal testing about ~2000 of them with Wine, that may greatly help.

Project itself is not yet public really, but will be once i’m done testing :wink:

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