On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:03:07 -0500, ben racher wrote: > Production Computer... so I've been tooling around with JACK and Ardour > and MusE (not to be confused with MuSE) and other JACK apps and its all > really cool and exciting. I never got the sound input to even really > work in linux until a couple weeks ago. Yay for the 2.6.8+ kernels. So > here are my thoughts on setting up a workstation, and I don't even know > if this is possible, but that's why I'm mailing you guys. One department > has kindly donated a brand new Dell Poweredge Dual Xeon 2.4 ghz somethin > or other. The rest of our computers are from the university junkyard of > midgrade PowerPC G4s and Pentium 3s. So the Poweredge is our gem > computer out of all the other crappy computers. Is there any way for me > to set up the speedy new poweredge as some kind of audio production > renderfarm, and get the PPCs and the Pentium 3s to connect to it as > production terminals? Cause, although multi-tracking on the G4s and > Pentium 3s is possible, doing extensive work with FX plugins is probably > out of the question. Dont forget X. You can put the noisey new machine in a cupboard somewhere, as long as it has audio connections, and control it from one of the P3's etc. over X11. I forwarded your message to one of the guys who runs the student radio station here http://www.surgeradio.co.uk/ its linux and donated hardware based, and they have a very good setup, so maybe he can offer some advice. - Steve
