On Sat, March 5, 2016 6:56 am, Ben Bell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 11:07:05AM +0100, Jeremy Jongepier wrote: >> Just like you say ;) I wouldn't base it on an embedded ARM board but >> would indeed go for something a bit more powerful and X86-64 based. For >> booting I'd look at booting from RAM (maybe using Puppy Linux or >> something like Debirf). > Debirf now bookmarked, thanks. > >> Soundcard will probably be USB so a good USB > I'm inclined to start with a Behringer UMC204HD. Four audio outs and MIDI > IO. > >> implementation on the mobo is key. > This is where I'd start to come unstuck. Anyone got some recommendations > for the board itself? Functioning USB, no proprietary chipsets, or bits > that muck up low-latency. Ideally something that boots fast rather than > sitting around at the Press <F1> to enter setup prompt for ages. Has > anyone > got experience of the NUC stuff? > The low end NUC is reliable and fully supported in ubuntu. I had some issues with debian driver support when I first set it up ubuntu had them sorted at the time. It does occasionally overheat and lock up but it seems to be a video driver issue and might already be fixed if I upgrade the drivers. I can't vouch for the stability of the high end options but I have similar spec'd notebook hardware made by ASUS and it is rock solid. If you build one of the latest models you might need to be patient for upto a year to get full support for all the drivers. I would go for the i7 model if I was using it as a live performance workhorse. The cases are solid and portable. Chuck an SSD on it and it will be hard to loose data due to a bump while in transit. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
