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Although it might not seem like it, properly dealing with audio requires an intricately tuned PC. The main issue is audio latency, which refers to both the time it takes for a sound to enter your machine and the time it takes for your machine to produce a sound. In everyday use, we don’t really notice this latency. When you click on a button that makes a beep, you don’t care that it might take several hundred milliseconds for the sound to reach your ears. But in the delicate world of audio engineering, several hundreds of milliseconds is far too long, and even a delay of just tens of milliseconds is undesirable.

Luckily, Linux is a highly configurable operating system, and this means that you can create the perfect audio platform just by making a few tweaks. We’ve chosen the latest version of Ubuntu to be our guinea pig.

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