On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Onyeibo Oku <twohot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi people, > > I'm looking to set up a small recording rig for an organization and I > want it running Fedora-Jam. They want to be recording 45-1hr single-mic > talk sessions as well as 8-16 mic/channel choral sessions. The > limitation is that they want a portable computer for the job -- a > laptop. A yamaha 16-channel Mixer board exists but some faders have > become erratic. > > What should constitute the final gear? i would appreciate suggestions > on Laptop specs, USB/PCMIA capture cards, MIDI input equipment etc ... a > collection that will tightly fit into the Linux Sound ecosystem. Does > the Linux sound tools play well with USB interfaces? > > Please advise on the way forward. Its a low-budget project > > Regards > Onyeibo > > > _______________________________________________ > music mailing list > music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music The most important attribute of a laptop for audio / recording work is ruggedness. I don't know how you'd go about evaluating that, but I'd be really surprised if you could walk into Best Buy, get an inexpensive Windows laptop, dual-boot it with Fedora and have something rugged enough to handle mission-critical recording studio duty. When you say "low budget", I cringe. I spent $600 on my Asus laptop with 8 GB of RAM and a Core i5 "Sandy Bridge" processor. It runs VMs fine, it's dual-booted Windows 7 and Fedora 18 "pre-beta" and it works, but I wouldn't want to show up at a gig with it. -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench: http://znmeb.github.com/Computational-Journalism-Publishers-Workbench/ How the Hell can the lion sleep with all those people singing "A weem oh way!" at the top of their lungs? _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
